Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 11May2019 00:38, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 6:57 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: That's correct. (I assume you mean the 475GB partition though.) Usually you will also want a /home partition as well. [...] Despite suggestions I plan to create only the partition for "/" and a swa

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
top posting here, just to say a big thank you to all who answered, Samuel (the first one so this reply is to his mail message..), Roberto, sixpack13, Dave, Chris (and Cameron while I'm writing...) Ah, guys; this remembers me the old days when I approached for the first time Linux and while trying t

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 10May2019 18:36, sixpack13 wrote: [...] save the disk layout (fdisk -l...) I've been rather fond of the sfdisk command for saving layouts. (May not work with GPT partition tables, haven't tried that). It has the advantage (not necessarily relevant just here) that it can read its output

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 5:37 AM Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > > It seems gparted doesn't work well with gpt and many advise to use > gdisk/sgdisk utilities instead, if I have understood correctly gparted uses parted, and parted has supported GPT for a long time. Whereas gdisk/sgdisk are much more use

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread sixpack13
is this the same as what's in the recovery partition, *the complete configured Win-Installation* (with all vendor driver's/settings and the bloatware, too) ? don't know, my experiences are somewhat aged and only from win7 netbooks (Samsung). ___ users

Re: simple scan no longer prints?

2019-05-10 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/10/19 8:38 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/10/2019 01:17 AM, Todd Chester via users wrote: I scan and print my customer's checks so I can double check my paperwork if someone does not pay me and make sure it is not my mistake.  It is a (ha ha) "paper trail". Most modern printers can act as a

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread Dave Ihnat
On 10 May at 13:43, Samuel Sieb wrote: > The easiest method is to use the Windows recovery option to create a > recovery image on a USB drive. You should do that, of course, but by the time it's ready to move on and maybe become Windows again, that's going to be on VERY old image. At the time yo

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/10/19 11:36 AM, sixpack13 wrote: you should backup /dev/nvme0n1p4 (Windows recovery), save the disk layout (fdisk -l...) and maybe save your boot sector too (don't know if this relevant for UEFI) esp. if you got a function key (F2, F?, ..) during boot to recover you disk/windows. think

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread sixpack13
you should backup /dev/nvme0n1p4 (Windows recovery), save the disk layout (fdisk -l...) and maybe save your boot sector too (don't know if this relevant for UEFI) esp. if you got a function key (F2, F?, ..) during boot to recover you disk/windows. think of the case if you want to sell the lapto

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 5/10/19 1:37 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: I have doubt about numbering, because p3 will become smaller and if I create in the middle of p3 and p4 two more partitions, what will happen? The new partitions can be called p5 and p6 even if placed between p3 and p4. As far as you don't get confus

Tip: Xfce 4.13 and panel problems

2019-05-10 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
Hi All, I have an upcoming new build of Fedora 30 for a customer. I wanted to put Xfce on it, but 4.13 way too buggy to unleash on the general public, especially with all the talking up of Linux I have been doing. Well the two deal killer bugs are https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14627

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/10/19 4:37 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: One further info is that the disk is seen marked as gpt from fdisk. Yes, that is required for UEFI. Having searched around in the mean time I found some further info, as I have not been quite familiar with gpt disks until now... It seems gparted does

Re: F30 - KDE on nouveau driver freezes at login

2019-05-10 Thread Rex Dieter
Barry Scott wrote: > I just raised https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1706756 > about this problem. > > KDE is complete dead after login on Fedora 30 with nouveau. This qt5-qtbase update may help, https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-f43ed18461 -- Rex ___

Re: simple scan no longer prints?

2019-05-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/10/2019 01:17 AM, Todd Chester via users wrote: I scan and print my customer's checks so I can double check my paperwork if someone does not pay me and make sure it is not my mistake.  It is a (ha ha) "paper trail". Most modern printers can act as a copier as well. Wouldn't that be sim

Re: dnf upgrade to 29 fails with coreutils and jre1 package problems

2019-05-10 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. On Fri, 10 May 2019 08:50:34 -0400 Alex wrote: > # rpm -qva|grep -E '^coreutils|jre1' > coreutils-8.29-7.fc28.x86_64 > jre1.8.0_25-1.8.0_25-fcs.x86_64 > coreutils-common-8.29-7.fc28.x86_64 > # rpm -e jre1 > error: package jre1 is not installed Normal: the name of this package is I think jr

dnf upgrade to 29 fails with coreutils and jre1 package problems

2019-05-10 Thread Alex
Hi, I have a fedora28 desktop I'm trying to upgrade to fedora29 and having a problem: # dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=29 Before you continue ensure that your system is fully upgraded by running "dnf --refresh upgrade". Do you want to continue [y/N]: y Last metadata expiration

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 2:59 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/9/19 3:35 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a laptop with preinstalled Win10 where I want to side install > > fedora 30 too. > > > /dev/nvme0n1p3567296 998574734 998007439 475.9G Microsoft basic data > > /dev/nvme0n1p4

Re: F30 - KDE on nouveau driver freezes at login

2019-05-10 Thread Barry Scott
> On 6 May 2019, at 20:00, Rex Dieter wrote: > > Barry Scott wrote: > >> I just raised https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1706756 >> about this problem. >> >> KDE is complete dead after login on Fedora 30 with nouveau. >> >> I you have nvidia hardware I suggest testing that lKDE liv

Re: F30 - KDE on nouveau driver freezes at login

2019-05-10 Thread Barry Scott
> On 6 May 2019, at 20:14, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Mon, 06 May 2019 14:00:39 -0500 > Rex Dieter wrote: > >> Interestingly, f30 is the first release to work reliably with nouveau (on my >> hybrid intel/nouveau laptop, all prior releases I had to blacklist nouveau >> to get anything remotely

Re: simple scan no longer prints?

2019-05-10 Thread Todd Chester via users
On 5/9/19 9:25 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: I'm curious what the use case is for printing something that you just scanned?  Is it for the purpose of making copies since you only have a stand alone scanner? I scan and print my customer's checks so I can double check my paperwork if someone does not