Re: universal boot USB stick?

2018-09-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Sep 5, 2018, 5:51 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > All the recent threads about both BIOS and UEFI booting > got me interested in playing with making a USB stick > that can boot practically anywhere. > > The instructions here kinda work: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive

Re: convert to EUFI boot?

2018-09-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/06/18 10:03, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 09/05/2018 05:48 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 09/06/18 06:31, ToddAndMargo wrote: >>> On 09/05/2018 01:46 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 09:32:42 -0700 ToddAndMargo wrote: > The only time I ever updated firmware on an SSD was

Re: convert to EUFI boot?

2018-09-05 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 09/05/2018 05:48 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/06/18 06:31, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 09/05/2018 01:46 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 09:32:42 -0700 ToddAndMargo wrote: The only time I ever updated firmware on an SSD was when Intel was making me jump through hoops to try to prove tha

Re: convert to EUFI boot?

2018-09-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/06/18 06:31, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 09/05/2018 01:46 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 09:32:42 -0700 >> ToddAndMargo wrote: >> >>> The only time I ever updated firmware on an SSD was >>> when Intel was making me jump through hoops to >>> try to prove that it wasn't them. >> >> T

Re: vncserver with Xfce?

2018-09-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 09/05/2018 07:58 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 09/05/2018 01:41 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 09/05/2018 01:09 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Anyone have vncserver working on Fedora with Xfce? Granted I am trying it on F29-arm-beta, but I followed the processes I have for Centos7-arm with Gnome.

Re: vncserver with Xfce?

2018-09-05 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/05/2018 01:41 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 09/05/2018 01:09 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> Anyone have vncserver working on Fedora with Xfce? >> >> Granted I am trying it on F29-arm-beta, but I followed the processes I >> have for Centos7-arm with Gnome. >> >> systemctl set-default multi-user

universal boot USB stick?

2018-09-05 Thread Tom Horsley
All the recent threads about both BIOS and UEFI booting got me interested in playing with making a USB stick that can boot practically anywhere. The instructions here kinda work: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive I can boot the USB stick on something like a windows machine

Re: scp over wireless is slow

2018-09-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 04Sep2018 09:45, bruce wrote: Sounds like you and Jakub have differing analysis of the issue. Would you consider posting what you've written to Superuser as well.. to give others a shot at seeing what you've stated. Someone looking to google on the issue might not see what you posted in this

Re: convert to EUFI boot?

2018-09-05 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 09/05/2018 01:46 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 09:32:42 -0700 ToddAndMargo wrote: The only time I ever updated firmware on an SSD was when Intel was making me jump through hoops to try to prove that it wasn't them. The crucial (I think it was crucial) SSD I got a long time ago

Re: Tip: finally found a USB 3.1 card that works with 28

2018-09-05 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 09/05/2018 02:02 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 12:25:09PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, I finally found a PCIe USB 3.1 adapter that works perfectly with Fedora 28: I suspect that is more a commentary on the quality of cheap hardware, than on the linux kernel. You are

Re: automatically mount all luks partitions at startup, not only /home

2018-09-05 Thread Frédéric
> The system will prompt you for the block devices listed in > /etc/crypttab. See "man crypttab" That seems the best for me. The most difficult was to find what to write in /etc/crypttab but I managed to do that looking at /dev/disk/by-uuid. I have now 3 lines like this one: luks-${UUID} UUID=${U

Re: Tip: finally found a USB 3.1 card that works with 28

2018-09-05 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 12:25:09PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > I finally found a PCIe USB 3.1 adapter that works perfectly > with Fedora 28: I suspect that is more a commentary on the quality of cheap hardware, than on the linux kernel. Glad you found one. > > Syba SD-PEX20200 > h

Re: vncserver with Xfce?

2018-09-05 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 09/05/2018 01:09 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Anyone have vncserver working on Fedora with Xfce? Granted I am trying it on F29-arm-beta, but I followed the processes I have for Centos7-arm with Gnome. systemctl set-default multi-user.target dnf install tigervnc-server Went to my user id a

Re: convert to EUFI boot?

2018-09-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 09:32:42 -0700 ToddAndMargo wrote: > The only time I ever updated firmware on an SSD was > when Intel was making me jump through hoops to > try to prove that it wasn't them. The crucial (I think it was crucial) SSD I got a long time ago had a bug in the firmware that implemente

vncserver with Xfce?

2018-09-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Anyone have vncserver working on Fedora with Xfce? Granted I am trying it on F29-arm-beta, but I followed the processes I have for Centos7-arm with Gnome. systemctl set-default multi-user.target dnf install tigervnc-server Went to my user id and ran vncpasswd cp /lib/systemd/system/vncserve

Tip: finally found a USB 3.1 card that works with 28

2018-09-05 Thread ToddAndMargo
Hi All, I finally found a PCIe USB 3.1 adapter that works perfectly with Fedora 28: Syba SD-PEX20200 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019LHXZOA Tested and failed were: StarTech.com PEXUSB312C Dual Port USB 3.1 Card – 1x USB-C – 1x USB-A Large file transfers crash your operating system Siig

Re: convert to EUFI boot?

2018-09-05 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 09/05/2018 03:13 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: The last time I looked, Samsung drives could only update firmware from windows. That knocked Samsung right off my list forever:-(. The only time I ever updated firmware on an SSD was when Intel was making me jump through hoops to try to prove that it w

Re: automatically mount all luks partitions at startup, not only /home

2018-09-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/04/2018 11:05 PM, Frédéric wrote: I have multiple partitions encrypted with luks and only the main one with /home is decrypted at startup. How can I tell the system I want to open all of them at startup? The system will prompt you for the block devices listed in /etc/crypttab.  See "man

Re: preferred desktop environment for MS Surface Pro 3

2018-09-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 07:11:49 -0300 "George N. White III" wrote: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 22:21, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > >[...] > > Thanks for this. I installed F28+design suite with Gnome for now and found > > that GOK (also in your reference) works fine. > > > > Btw, one thing that does not

Re: convert to EUFI boot?

2018-09-05 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 11:01 PM Todd Chester wrote: > On 09/03/2018 04:48 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > I'm planning on upgrading my computer to a Ryzen 5 later this year. I > > think what I'm going to do since I'm upgrading to a M.2 SSD at the same > > time is: > > 1) Buy a Samsung NVMe SSD drive.

Re: convert to EUFI boot?

2018-09-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 21:00:44 -0700 Todd Chester wrote: > Buy a Samsung The last time I looked, Samsung drives could only update firmware from windows. That knocked Samsung right off my list forever :-(. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: preferred desktop environment for MS Surface Pro 3

2018-09-05 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 22:21, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >[...] Thanks for this. I installed F28+design suite with Gnome for now and found > that GOK (also in your reference) works fine. > > Btw, one thing that does not seem to work is to switch the tablet to > portait mode when it is held long edge

RE: automatically mount all luks partitions at startup, not only /home

2018-09-05 Thread J.Witvliet
How about specifying the luks-pwd for all other partitions/VolumeGroups by means of a LUKS_passwordfile? hw -Original Message- From: François Patte [mailto:francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr] Sent: woensdag 5 september 2018 9:42 To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: automatical

Re: automatically mount all luks partitions at startup, not only /home

2018-09-05 Thread François Patte
Le 05/09/2018 à 08:05, Frédéric a écrit : > Hi, > I have multiple partitions encrypted with luks and only the main one > with /home is decrypted at startup. How can I tell the system I want > to open all of them at startup? You can maybe put a line in fstab for the partitions you want to mount at