Re: Is this usb wifi plug supported?

2015-05-16 Thread jd1008
On 05/14/2015 09:04 AM, poma wrote: On 14.05.2015 05:09, jd1008 wrote: I am considering buying such a plug. It is described as: Mini AC600 High Performance 2.4GHz 5GHz Dual Band WiFi Wireless USB Adapter Features: 100% Brand New and High Quality This AC600 dual band adapter delivers powerful wi

Re: SD cafd read only

2015-05-16 Thread jd1008
On 05/16/2015 06:06 PM, Peter Skensved wrote: On 16/05/15 17:36, Joe Zeff wrote: I really believe this thing has failed. You're probably right. Still, before tossing it, if toss it you must, what do you get from this: fdisk -l /dev/sdh Does that show the full size, or just the 3.9GB? If

Re: SD cafd read only

2015-05-16 Thread Peter Skensved
> > > On 16/05/15 17:36, Joe Zeff wrote: > >> > >> I really believe this thing has failed. > > > > You're probably right. Still, before tossing it, if toss it you must, > > what do you get from this: > > > > fdisk -l /dev/sdh > > > > Does that show the full size, or just the 3.9GB? If nothing

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread jd1008
On 05/16/2015 04:46 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 16/05/15 18:34, jd1008 wrote: I have never before encountered this treatment of an SD card by Fedora. Did you run dd on both devices? Also, does the MAC machine also detect the SD card as 2 different devices? . I did not w

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/05/15 18:34, jd1008 wrote: I have never before encountered this treatment of an SD card by Fedora. Did you run dd on both devices? Also, does the MAC machine also detect the SD card as 2 different devices? . I did not witness the Mac effort, I was doing something she wanted me to read.

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread jd1008
On 05/16/2015 04:25 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 16/05/15 18:13, jd1008 wrote: OK, so now you need to do the dd thing for the 12GB device also. Once you do that, then pull out the device and reinsert it to see of it is still being detected as 2 devices. Be sure it is not m

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/05/15 18:24, g wrote: also, consider opening desktop and using "disk utility". . I've never used that before, it would have saved me a lot of trouble if I had! Now, despiet what fdisk shows, the disk utility shows one 16GB device as /dev/sdf. I'll see what I have when I go to use

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/05/15 18:13, jd1008 wrote: OK, so now you need to do the dd thing for the 12GB device also. Once you do that, then pull out the device and reinsert it to see of it is still being detected as 2 devices. Be sure it is not mounted after you insert it. Not sure how to deal with this, my bes

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread g
On 05/16/2015 05:13 PM, jd1008 wrote: > On 05/16/2015 04:06 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: >> On 16/05/15 17:50, jd1008 wrote: >>> I am wondering if fedora is naming the other 12GB as another device??? >> . >> Eureka! >> >> It appears to be loading zeros to /dev/sdf as I type this!

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread jd1008
On 05/16/2015 04:06 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 16/05/15 17:50, jd1008 wrote: I am wondering if fedora is naming the other 12GB as another device??? . Eureka! It appears to be loading zeros to /dev/sdf as I type this! [root@box10 /]# fdisk -l /dev/sdf Disk /dev/sdf: 1

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/05/15 17:50, jd1008 wrote: I am wondering if fedora is naming the other 12GB as another device??? . Eureka! It appears to be loading zeros to /dev/sdf as I type this! [root@box10 /]# fdisk -l /dev/sdf Disk /dev/sdf: 14.9 GiB, 15931539456 bytes, 31116288 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 5

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/05/15 17:49, Joe Zeff wrote: Thanx; now we know. It's not just that you can't use the rest of the device, you can't even see it any more, and that explains why you can't extend the existing partition or replace it with a bigger one. -- . But I never gave up hope, I have resurrected

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread jd1008
On 05/16/2015 03:40 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 16/05/15 17:36, Joe Zeff wrote: I really believe this thing has failed. You're probably right. Still, before tossing it, if toss it you must, what do you get from this: fdisk -l /dev/sdh Does that show the full size,

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/16/2015 02:40 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: [root@box10 /]# fdisk -l /dev/sdh Disk /dev/sdh: 3.7 GiB, 3906453504 bytes, 7629792 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 byte

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/05/15 17:39, jd1008 wrote: As a final resort, insert it into a booted windows machine and the machine will ask you if you want to format it. Answer yes and take it from there. . Believe it or not I wouldn't know where to find a Windows, computer any more. The rest are various Mac's, it

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/05/15 17:36, Joe Zeff wrote: I really believe this thing has failed. You're probably right. Still, before tossing it, if toss it you must, what do you get from this: fdisk -l /dev/sdh Does that show the full size, or just the 3.9GB? If nothing else, we might learn something abou

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread jd1008
On 05/16/2015 03:32 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 16/05/15 17:27, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 16/05/15 17:20, jd1008 wrote: Since you are running freebsd, the device usually has a name other than what you provide. Are you sure about the sd card's pathname

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread jd1008
On 05/16/2015 03:27 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 16/05/15 17:20, jd1008 wrote: Since you are running freebsd, the device usually has a name other than what you provide. Are you sure about the sd card's pathname? . BSD? I don't know where that is coming from? I used FreeN

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/16/2015 02:16 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: It is not mounted, all I can mount is the 3.9GB partition. I really believe this thing has failed. You're probably right. Still, before tossing it, if toss it you must, what do you get from this: fdisk -l /dev/sdh Does that

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/05/15 17:27, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 16/05/15 17:20, jd1008 wrote: Since you are running freebsd, the device usually has a name other than what you provide. Are you sure about the sd card's pathname? . BSD? I don't know where that is coming from? I used FreeNAS fo

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/05/15 17:20, jd1008 wrote: Since you are running freebsd, the device usually has a name other than what you provide. Are you sure about the sd card's pathname? . BSD? I don't know where that is coming from? I used FreeNAS for a while on another computer, I don't know what they may have

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread jd1008
On 05/16/2015 03:16 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: . [root@box10 /]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdh bs=4M dd: error writing ‘/dev/sdh’: No space left on device 932+0 records in 931+0 records out 3906453504 bytes (3.9 GB) copied, 4.52491 s, 863 MB/s [root@box10 /]# umount -f /dev/sdh

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/05/15 17:07, jd1008 wrote: On 05/16/2015 02:56 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 16/05/15 16:44, jd1008 wrote: On 05/16/2015 02:28 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Also, have you ever copied to it, using dd, an iso image of a bootable cd-rom or dvd-r

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread jd1008
Bob, be sure the device is not mounted when you run the dd command. You were only able to dd a hair less than 4GB. After you unmount, re-do the dd. On 05/16/2015 03:08 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 16/05/15 17:04, jd1008 wrote: What is the size of the SD card? 16GB --

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/05/15 17:04, jd1008 wrote: What is the size of the SD card? 16GB -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 FEDORA-22b/64bit LINUX XFCE -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedor

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread jd1008
On 05/16/2015 02:56 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 16/05/15 16:44, jd1008 wrote: On 05/16/2015 02:28 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Also, have you ever copied to it, using dd, an iso image of a bootable cd-rom or dvd-rom? Yes, the F-21 XFCE Live spin, t

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread jd1008
On 05/16/2015 02:56 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 16/05/15 16:44, jd1008 wrote: On 05/16/2015 02:28 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Also, have you ever copied to it, using dd, an iso image of a bootable cd-rom or dvd-rom? Yes, the F-21 XFCE Live spin, t

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/05/15 16:44, jd1008 wrote: On 05/16/2015 02:28 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Also, have you ever copied to it, using dd, an iso image of a bootable cd-rom or dvd-rom? Yes, the F-21 XFCE Live spin, that's apparently what triggered this? THAT's WHY it is read only.

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread jd1008
On 05/16/2015 02:28 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Also, have you ever copied to it, using dd, an iso image of a bootable cd-rom or dvd-rom? Yes, the F-21 XFCE Live spin, that's apparently what triggered this? THAT's WHY it is read only. If you want to EVER mount it as rw,

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/05/15 16:30, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 16.05.2015, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I have an micro SD card that has turned read only. I have been trying everything I can find to clear it for several hours. Time to backup your data and to buy a new one. This happens when your SD ca

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.05.2015, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > I have an micro SD card that has turned read only. I have been trying > everything I can find to clear it for several hours. Time to backup your data and to buy a new one. This happens when your SD card is gone bad. There's no way to reco

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/05/15 16:17, jd1008 wrote: On 05/16/2015 02:07 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 16/05/15 16:01, jd1008 wrote: There is a super tiny sliding switch near the edge, away from the contact pins, near the front. You will need to slide it to the other side from where it is

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread jd1008
On 05/16/2015 02:07 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 16/05/15 16:01, jd1008 wrote: There is a super tiny sliding switch near the edge, away from the contact pins, near the front. You will need to slide it to the other side from where it is now. . The switch is on the adapte

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/05/15 16:01, jd1008 wrote: There is a super tiny sliding switch near the edge, away from the contact pins, near the front. You will need to slide it to the other side from where it is now. . The switch is on the adapter and it is in the"up" unlocked position on both adapters I have tr

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread jd1008
On 05/16/2015 01:57 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I have an micro SD card that has turned read only. I have been trying everything I can find to clear it for several hours. [root@box10 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdh bs=1M dd: error writing ‘/dev/sdh’: No space left on device

SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
I have an micro SD card that has turned read only. I have been trying everything I can find to clear it for several hours. [root@box10 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdh bs=1M dd: error writing ‘/dev/sdh’: No space left on device 3726+0 records in 3725+0 records out 3906453504 bytes (3.9 GB) copi

Re: /home when moving to Fedora from Ubuntu

2015-05-16 Thread Ronal B Morse
On 05/16/2015 12:41 PM, g wrote: On 05/16/2015 08:41 AM, Kalpa Welivitigoda wrote: Hi Danishka and bitlord, Thanks a lot for the fast responses. It's exactly what bitlord has explained. It seems that it is just a matter of labelling/display in anaconda. So I think it is safe to proceed with

Re: /home when moving to Fedora from Ubuntu

2015-05-16 Thread g
On 05/16/2015 08:41 AM, Kalpa Welivitigoda wrote: > Hi Danishka and bitlord, > > Thanks a lot for the fast responses. > > It's exactly what bitlord has explained. It seems that it is just a > matter of labelling/display in anaconda. So I think it is safe to > proceed with mounting the ubuntu /hom

Re: /home when moving to Fedora from Ubuntu

2015-05-16 Thread Kalpa Welivitigoda
Hi Danishka and bitlord, Thanks a lot for the fast responses. It's exactly what bitlord has explained. It seems that it is just a matter of labelling/display in anaconda. So I think it is safe to proceed with mounting the ubuntu /home as the home for fedora. On May 16, 2015 6:27 PM, "bitlord" wr

Re: /boot on RAID1 with fedora21

2015-05-16 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Alex Regan writes: Hi, In the past, it's had a tendency to always put /boot only on /dev/sda, meaning if the first disk dies, the system becomes unable to boot. I have a software RAID for /boot working on CentOS 6 servers at work, so I would be very surprised if it could not also

Re: /home when moving to Fedora from Ubuntu

2015-05-16 Thread bitlord
On Sat, 16 May 2015 17:46:39 +0530 Kalpa Welivitigoda wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Ubuntu 13.10 and I am about to move to Fedora 21. I have a > separate partition for /home in ubuntu. > > When I try to install Fedora, in disk partitioning (I chose manual > option), for / I chose the same / in ub

Re: /home when moving to Fedora from Ubuntu

2015-05-16 Thread Danishka Navin
On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Kalpa Welivitigoda wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Ubuntu 13.10 and I am about to move to Fedora 21. I have a > separate partition for /home in ubuntu. > > When I try to install Fedora, in disk partitioning (I chose manual > option), for / I chose the same / in ubuntu

/home when moving to Fedora from Ubuntu

2015-05-16 Thread Kalpa Welivitigoda
Hi, I am using Ubuntu 13.10 and I am about to move to Fedora 21. I have a separate partition for /home in ubuntu. When I try to install Fedora, in disk partitioning (I chose manual option), for / I chose the same / in ubuntu and mark it as format. Then I selected the /home partition of ubuntu and

Re: Oracle no longer builds VB for latest Fedora release

2015-05-16 Thread Joachim Backes
On 05/16/2015 11:50 AM, John Tall wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:41 AM, jd1008 wrote: >> >> On 05/13/2015 04:33 PM, a...@clueserver.org wrote: On 05/13/2015 02:34 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > I am curious as to why Oracle decided not to build and distribute > VB built with late

Re: Oracle no longer builds VB for latest Fedora release

2015-05-16 Thread John Tall
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:41 AM, jd1008 wrote: > > On 05/13/2015 04:33 PM, a...@clueserver.org wrote: >>> >>> On 05/13/2015 02:34 PM, jd1008 wrote: I am curious as to why Oracle decided not to build and distribute VB built with latest Fedora release. I sent the question t