Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-01 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2025-05-01 at 21:12 -0600, home user via users wrote: > Just before trying to upgrade from F-40 to F-41, I did a back-up to a > USB 3 stick. Too late now, but never consider a USB stick as a back-up. It's flakey technology. I only use them as sneakernet tech. I don't know if "dd" can b

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/1/25 8:12 PM, home user via users wrote: (F-42; stand-alone workstation; Gnome) Just before trying to upgrade from F-40 to F-41, I did a back-up to a USB 3 stick. The upgrade failed. A local friend gave me a windows-10 box to use.  Until I could get the Fedora workstation adequately rest

recovering back-up.

2025-05-01 Thread home user via users
(F-42; stand-alone workstation; Gnome) Just before trying to upgrade from F-40 to F-41, I did a back-up to a USB 3 stick. The upgrade failed. A local friend gave me a windows-10 box to use.  Until I could get the Fedora workstation adequately restored, I needed to get a few things off the F-4

Re: Resolving names

2025-05-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/1/25 1:52 AM, Tim via users wrote: The number of times I've tried to access my printer's configuration server, and had to fight with Firefox to stop searching the internet for a shop selling that model printer, is a right pain. Even when I've typed http://laserprinter/ as a fully complete *

Re: Resolving names

2025-05-01 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >>> If I were configuring my DHCP server to hand it out to clients, that >>> would be the following in the dhcpd.conf file: >>> >>> option domain-name "internal."; >>> >>> It's going by proper standards that a domain name ends with a dot. & again, Tim: >> That may not be needed, now. But

Re: Resolving names

2025-05-01 Thread Barry Scott
> On 1 May 2025, at 07:23, Mike Wright wrote: > > (fqdn). > > How utilities such as as nslookup and dig figure out what to do when the > final dot on a fqdn is missing is a mystery to me. Perhaps they always add a > dot then trim the name to have no more than one. IDK The lack of a traili