Re: "bare metal" installation

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM home user via users wrote: > So this [spinning disk] is good even for a full-length, 4K, 120 frames per > second, at > least 30 bits per pixel (10 per color primary) video movie with 384 KHz > surround sound? I have played 4K video off the laptop drive, but I can'

Re: Fedora MATE - how to remove/hide "Shut Down" button from System menu? (SOLVED)

On Mon, 2025-09-08 at 23:51 +0200, Franta Hanzlík via users wrote: > In the end, it turned out that disabling shutdown/restart/... using > polkit is not that complicated, and it also has another (wanted) effect > - the "Shut Down" button in the System menu will not be displayed at > all to users

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

On Wed, 2025-09-17 at 15:09 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/17/25 3:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 20:48 -0600, home user via users wrote: > > > I don't recall ever using a VM, at least not within the past dozen > > > years.  I am concerned about how much of a learning

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

On 9/17/25 3:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 20:48 -0600, home user via users wrote: I don't recall ever using a VM, at least not within the past dozen years.  I am concerned about how much of a learning cure is involved, to install, to set up, to maintain, and to use.  B

Re: "bare metal" installation

On 9/17/25 2:37 PM, home user via users wrote: On 9/17/2025 1:11 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM home user via users wrote: I think that ideally, long, high resolution videos would be better on the NVMe drive, because it's faster.  But such files are also a lot bigger, an

Re: "bare metal" installation

On 9/17/25 9:55 AM, home user via users wrote: On 9/16/2025 7:20 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM Tim via users wrote: Oh, and this bit (above)...  It's hard to predict future needs, and I have my doubts about any modern hardware (including drives) lasting 10 years. You sh

Re: "bare metal" installation

On 9/17/2025 1:11 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM home user via users wrote: I think that ideally, long, high resolution videos would be better on the NVMe drive, because it's faster. But such files are also a lot bigger, and would quickly consume the drive's space. All

Re: "bare metal" installation

On 9/17/2025 1:07 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM home user via users wrote: If a block goes bad in a partition, does that permanently reduce the partition's space, or does the operating system (or drive) somehow compensate? Modern disk drives and SSDs usually have extra

Re: "bare metal" installation

On Wed, 2025-09-17 at 12:48 -0600, home user via users wrote: > Is there a 1-to-1 correspondence between "drive" and "volume".  In other > words, each drive corresponds to one and only volume, and each volume > corresponds to one and only one drive? > No. A drive is a physical (hardware) object

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM home user via users wrote: > Did I get the terminology wrong? > The "phone modem" is not some gadget that I put a phone receiver on, and > then dial in and connect via something like "kermit"(?). Maybe I should > call it a broadband phone-modem? It's an Arris Surf

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

On Wed, 2025-09-17 at 14:44 -0400, bruce wrote: > given  new tech for hardware over years..  as well as drive sizes.. > > what's the real need for dual boot over vm.  is there a pro/con of each?  a > good trusted non biased site/link?? [Please don't top-post. See the list Guidelines] IMO for mos

Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install

On 9/17/25 7:22 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM Samuel Sieb > wrote: On 9/16/25 2:33 PM, George N. White III wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM Dave Close mailto:d...@compata.com> >

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

On Sat, 2025-09-13 at 17:25 -0600, home user via users wrote: > Did I get the terminology wrong? > The "phone modem" is not some gadget that I put a phone receiver on, and > then dial in and connect via something like "kermit"(?). Maybe I should > call it a broadband phone-modem? It's an Arris

Re: Nvidia Mess

On 9/11/25 2:29 AM, Francis Montagnac via users wrote: Hi. On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:54:34 -0400 Tim Evans wrote: So, I installed 'akmod-nvidia' (akmod-nvidia-575.64.05-2.fc42.x86_64). A bunch of pre- and co-requisites were installed and the install appeared to have completed. Among the pre-r

Re: kernel module missing at boot after kernel update, akmods build it 2 minutes after kernel need it

On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 01:05:10 +0200 Franta Hanzlík via users wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:06:14 - > "Joe Average" wrote: > > > Franta Hanzlík wrote: > > > > AFAIK the module is only build once: when the new kernel first boots No, it should be build also in the posttrans scriptlet of the

Re: Nvidia Mess

> On 10 Sep 2025, at 16:55, Tim Evans wrote: > > Suggestions on where to go from here? Thanks. Do you have secure boot enabled? Did you create an enroll the secure boot certificate? rpmfusion docs have the detailed steps. Barry -- ___ users mai

Re: "bare metal" installation

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM home user via users wrote: > A drive is divided into sectors, which are divided into blocks. Am I right? Correct, although you usually don't care about sectors. In fact, most modern spinning disk drives *lie* about the number of sectors and their size. Only the

Re: "bare metal" installation

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM home user via users wrote: > Is there a 1-to-1 correspondence between "drive" and "volume". In other > words, each drive corresponds to one and only volume, and each volume > corresponds to one and only one drive? No, there is not. A "volume" is a logical entity,

Re: "bare metal" installation

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM home user via users wrote: > If a block goes bad in a partition, does that permanently reduce the > partition's space, or does the operating system (or drive) somehow > compensate? Modern disk drives and SSDs usually have extra blocks that are used to re-map bad b

Re: "bare metal" installation

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM home user via users wrote: > I think that ideally, long, high resolution videos would be better on > the NVMe drive, because it's faster. But such files are also a lot > bigger, and would quickly consume the drive's space. All the other user > files being on the

Re: "bare metal" installation

I'm wondering if my understanding of some terms is off.  I have a few questions.  This is not about USB sticks and "removable" media (blu-ray, DVDs, and CDs). Is there a 1-to-1 correspondence between "drive" and "volume".  In other words, each drive corresponds to one and only volume, and each

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

given new tech for hardware over years.. as well as drive sizes.. what's the real need for dual boot over vm. is there a pro/con of each? a good trusted non biased site/link?? On Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 1:36 PM home user via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On 9/17/2025 4:42 AM,

Re: "bare metal" installation

On 9/16/2025 4:47 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/16/25 3:08 PM, home user via users wrote: On 9/15/2025 10:09 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/15/25 8:54 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/15/2025 09:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: 3 is the default. "installonly_limit=3" Good thing I asked. Thank-you, Samuel.

Re: New kernel 6.15.10-200 seems to stop gkrellm from seeing the Ethernet interface. [SOLVED]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2025, at 2:30 PM, Doug H. wrote: > On Fri, 2025-08-22 at 16:06 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: >> On 8/22/25 1:54 PM, Bob Marčan via users wrote: >> > There is undoubtedly a problem using gkrellm. >> > Even if you enable "Force chart to be always shown ..." shows only >> > the name, witho

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

On 9/17/2025 4:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 20:48 -0600, home user via users wrote: I don't recall ever using a VM, at least not within the past dozen years.  I am concerned about how much of a learning cure is involved, to install, to set up, to maintain, and to use.

Re: "bare metal" installation

On 9/17/2025 2:06 AM, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 21:55 -0600, home user via users wrote: [snip] If I'm remembering correctly, one cause of the problem was kernels were in their own partition (/boot?), and that filled up. (Some other directory also got very full because stuff in it was n

Re: "bare metal" installation

On 9/16/2025 7:20 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM Tim via users wrote: Oh, and this bit (above)... It's hard to predict future needs, and I have my doubts about any modern hardware (including drives) lasting 10 years. You should expect a drive to fail 10 minutes after the

Re: "bare metal" installation

On 9/16/2025 7:14 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM home user via users wrote: The new desktop has: * 1 TB M.2(?) NVMe(?) drive for the operating system and installed applications, and * 4 TB spindle drive for personal stuff. Assume that I want most things stored uncompresse

Re: "bare metal" installation

On 9/16/2025 6:18 PM, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 16:08 -0600, home user via users wrote: of course, want to have lots of space available for kernel growth over the next decade. Oh, and this bit (above)... It's hard to predict future needs, and I have my doubts about any modern hardware

Re: "bare metal" installation (was: dual-boot installation instructions.).

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM Go Canes wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM Tim via users > wrote: > > Oh, and this bit (above)... It's hard to predict future needs, and I > > have my doubts about any modern hardware (including drives) lasting 10 > > years. > > You should expect a drive

Re: "bare metal" installation

On 9/16/2025 6:12 PM, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 16:08 -0600, home user via users wrote: I know a few people have encountered running out of storage space when a kernel gets patched or upgraded. It happened to me a few times. I recall seeing somewhere that this can be avoided with wise

Re: "bare metal" installation

On 9/16/2025 4:58 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On 16 Sep 2025 at 16:08, home user via users wrote: Date sent: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:08:50 -0600 Subject:"bare metal" installation (was: dual-boot installation instructions.). To: users@list

Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/16/25 2:33 PM, George N. White III wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM Dave Close > > wrote: > > > > Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > > For example I have this: > > > /usr/lib/.build-id/06/2c544875e

Re: "bare metal" installation

On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 21:55 -0600, home user via users wrote: > What I vaguely recall from several years ago, the first time dnf told me > it couldn't do the upgrade because I didn't have enough space, was that > someone suggested re-installing with less restrictive partitioning. I > passed on