Re: Using CUPS to print to a MarkDown file? - like what has been possible with PDF

On Sat, 2025-09-20 at 23:02 +1000, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: > I have made use of CUPS to print to PDF files for a looong time . . I > couldn't find anything that suggests anyone has been working on > providing the same facility for printing to MarkDown files - anyone know > of anything?

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

On Sat, 2025-09-20 at 15:29 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > I have a couple Dell systems and found they sometimes needed several attempts > before > recognizing F12, but both behave better now (I have removed Windows and > installed > current UEFI/BIOS updates). For that, and getting into B

Re: "bare metal" installation

On Sat, 2025-09-20 at 13:05 -0600, home user via users wrote: > I'm trying to determine what partitions, volumes, and sub-volumes my > old desktop has. Your /etc/fstab file would be a useful thing to post, too. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2

Re: "bare metal" installation

On Sat, 2025-09-20 at 16:54 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > This model requires 2 host USB ports. The 500mA 5V supply > of a single USB-2 port is insufficient. When it comes to external USB drive enclosures for a desktop PC, I favour ones that come with their own power supply. I'd leave USB- powered

Re: Alternatives to ISC DHCP server

There isc kea dhcp server that is the replacement for old isc dhcp. It is packaged in fedora, but you will have to create new config for it. I got as far as getting kea dhcp working, but the integration with bind stumped me. It’s on my todo list to go back and try again. Barry > On 18 Sep 2025,

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

Le mar. 16 sept. 2025, 00:42, Jeffrey Walton a écrit : > On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > [...] > > > Once you see the list and approve of them, you can delete the dangling > > > links with the `-d` option: > > > > > > # symlinks -r -d / > > > > > > Also see < > http

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

On 9/15/2025 2:53 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM home user via users wrote: The term "BIOS" seems to be overloaded. It seems to have a broad meaning referring to "firmware", "software" that is "built-in" to the motherboard (or CPU?). It also seems to have a narrower mean

Re: Recently found that new Kernel would not install because not enough space in /boot.

> On 15 Sep 2025, at 03:54, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > > Interesting that the rescue initramfs is also larger, so thinking it has a > double load of modules somehow? I'm not sure are the rescue kernel. If you did the dance to get it recreated then I guess the dracut issue could cause it

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

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > > Have a script I've use for years, and had assumed it was left over > things, but recently did a clean install on machine and it has about > 2/3 that of a machine that has had many updates over years. > > /findbadlink > > fin

Re: How can I effectively use my SSD and HDD using bcache/bcachefs/btrfs?

On 9/1/25 6:26 AM, Pramod V. U. via users wrote: Samuel Sieb wrote: Do you need more space than the SSD? The space size is sufficient, but I wouldn't like to waste the large amount of space which I could use... 1TB would be convenient, even if not a hard necessity. Install the OS on the SSD

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

On Mon, 2025-09-15 at 11:17 -0600, home user via users wrote: > I was wanting to do dual-boot solely so that I have a fall-back when > weekly patching or semi-annual upgrading resulted in Fedora being > minimally usable and with difficulty at that. or when it resulted > in Fedora being unu

Re: backup strategies/processes -- how do you do it!

On 9/20/25 5:41 PM, bruce wrote: got an ubuntu laptop 1tb nvme od/data How do you backup the device to a connected usb 1-2tb drive... I've got a few that I can rotate through.. I'm interested to be able to completely "restore" everything if I need to. This would include OS, apps, as well a

backup strategies/processes -- how do you do it!

hi. got an ubuntu laptop 1tb nvme od/data How do you backup the device to a connected usb 1-2tb drive... I've got a few that I can rotate through.. I'm interested to be able to completely "restore" everything if I need to. This would include OS, apps, as well as data.. thanks for any thoug

Re: "bare metal" installation

On 9/20/25 4:51 PM, home user via users wrote: # lsblk -f NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL  UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS sda ├─sda1 │    vfat   FAT32    8C6A-54B6 579.5M  3% /boot/efi ├─sda2 │    ext4   1.0  3a2c48e3-6037-4fd4

Re: "bare metal" installation

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM home user via users wrote: > # lsblk > NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS > sda 8:00 1.8T 0 disk > ├─sda1 8:10 600M 0 part /boot/efi > ├─sda2 8:201G 0 part /boot > └─sda3 8:30 1.8T 0 part /home >

Re: "bare metal" installation

On 9/20/25 1:34 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM home user via users wrote: I'm trying to determine what partitions, volumes, and sub-volumes my old desktop has. I'm also trying to determine what top-level directories are in which partition/volume/sub-volume. I don't recal

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

On Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:27:55 +0930 Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2025-09-08 at 14:40 +0200, Franta Hanzlík via users wrote: > > I thought removing or disabling the OFF button would be a fairly > > simple and obvious thing to do. > > You would think so, too... > > Half the problem is that *that* part o

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

home user composed on 2025-09-13 17:40 (UTC-0600): > Does it matter which distro I install first? It certainly should not, but you may save some grief by installing the one you prefer last, so that when it takes boot control, you need only make the other give up attempting to regain control, ins

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

> On 13 Sep 2025, at 16:59, home user via users > wrote: > > Where are good, detailed instructions for doing a dual-boot install, Fedora + > one other Linux distro, on a blank desktop? It's easy to install one distro and have it be low maintenance to keep it working and up to date. But it'

Re: "bare metal" installation

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 01:42:31PM -0600, home user via users wrote: On 9/20/2025 12:20 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/19/25 5:32 PM, home user via users wrote: > [snip] >> It's LG Electronics BP60NB10.  If I understand the web page info about it correctly, it's USB-2. ... Sad; USB-2 is really s

Re: "bare metal" installation

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM home user via users wrote: > > I'm trying to determine what partitions, volumes, and sub-volumes my > old desktop has. It was totally re-installed in late April, a bare > metal installation, after Anaconda (that snake!) had destroyed > everything Fedora, then wind

Re: "bare metal" installation

Francis Montagnac >> Your last message has: >> >> Archived-At: >> Patrick O'Callaghan: > Very good. It would be nice if this was part of the footer (but maybe > it can´t be pla

Re: "bare metal" installation

(responding to Tim and Samuel) On 9/19/2025 10:30 PM, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2025-09-19 at 10:40 -0600, home user via users wrote: When I ordered my desktop, I was told by 2 different salesmen that cases are no longer made with 5 1/4 inch slots. So I cannot do a blu-ray drive with a SATA interface

Re: "bare metal" installation

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM home user via users wrote: > > I'm trying to determine what partitions, volumes, and sub-volumes my > old desktop has. > I'm also trying to determine what top-level directories are in which > partition/volume/sub-volume. I don't recall what commands to use, but >

Re: "bare metal" installation

I'm trying to determine what partitions, volumes, and sub-volumes my old desktop has. It was totally re-installed in late April, a bare metal installation, after Anaconda (that snake!) had destroyed everything Fedora, then windows-7 on that what was a dual boot desktop. I'm also trying to det

Re: "bare metal" installation

On 9/19/2025 10:20 PM, Tim wrote: home user: When I ordered the desktop, I asked that the drives be fully S.M.A.R.T. monitorable. & home user: Years, ago, I was told by someone on this list that results of S.M.A.R.T. monitoring of that hard drive were only partially meaningful or applicable.

Re: "bare metal" installation

(responding to Patrick, Go Canes, and Michael) Thank-you. On 9/19/2025 3:26 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The kernel has nothing to do with Gnome or KDE. Those are desktop > environments that sit on top of the kernel. (sigh)  I knew that.  I was careless to ask what I asked about that. > T

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

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.  But it's something to keep > in mind once

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM home user via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > [...] > > [snip] > > Dell F12 > > [snip] > I finally remembered to try that. It worked. Thank-you. > I have a couple Dell systems and found they sometimes needed several attempts before reco

Ms fail to start since update to 7.2.2: "HM ring-0 init failed: VERR_NOT_AVAILABLE"

Found a link with the error, but for another distro. Solution they used was to downgrade to 7.2.0? But when I tired to downgrade get this message for all the VirtualBox options. The lowest available version of the "VirtualBox-server.x86_64" package is already installed, cannot downgrade it. So

Re: Using CUPS to print to a MarkDown file? - like what has been possible with PDF

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM Philip Rhoades via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > People, > > I have made use of CUPS to print to PDF files for a looong time . . I > couldn't find anything that suggests anyone has been working on > providing the same facility for printing to MarkD

Re: Base fedora installation [SOLVED]

On Sat Sep20'25 09:56:11AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > From: Samuel Sieb > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 09:56:11 -0700 > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: Base fedora installation > > On 9/20/25 9:54 AM, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > > On Sat

Re: Using CUPS to print to a MarkDown file? - like what has been possible with PDF

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM Philip Rhoades via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > People, > > I have made use of CUPS to print to PDF files for a looong time . . I > couldn't find anything that suggests anyone has been working on > providing the same facility for printing to Mark

Re: Base fedora installation

On 9/20/25 9:54 AM, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: On Sat Sep20'25 05:44:11PM, Peter Boy Uni wrote: From: Peter Boy Uni Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:44:11 +0200 To: Community support for Fedora users Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Base fedora installation Am 20.09.

Re: Base fedora installation

On Sat Sep20'25 05:44:11PM, Peter Boy Uni wrote: > From: Peter Boy Uni > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:44:11 +0200 > To: Community support for Fedora users > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: Base fedora installation > > > > > Am 20.09.2025 um 16:20 schrieb Ranjan Maitra

Re: Using CUPS to print to a MarkDown file? - like what has been possible with PDF

On 9/20/25 9:48 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2025-09-20 at 23:02 +1000, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: People, I have made use of CUPS to print to PDF files for a looong time . . I couldn't find anything that suggests anyone has been working on providing the same facility for printin

Re: Using CUPS to print to a MarkDown file? - like what has been possible with PDF

On Sat, 2025-09-20 at 23:02 +1000, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: > People, > > I have made use of CUPS to print to PDF files for a looong time . . I > couldn't find anything that suggests anyone has been working on > providing the same facility for printing to MarkDown files - anyone know > o

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

On 9/13/2025 10:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote: home user composed on 2025-09-13 21:58 (UTC-0600): Felix Miata wrote: [snip] "BBS hotkey"?  What's that?  I don't see any keys on my keyboard labelled anything remotely suggesting "BBS". BIOS Boot Selector/Service With most "PC" compatible computers

Re: Shutdown problems shutting down Fedora 42 with 6.16 kernels

Il giorno gio, 11/09/2025 alle 15.44 +0100, Barry ha scritto: > Can you raise a new bug for the dell? There are lot of bugs with this problem already filled. I updated one of them. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2393381 Maybe there is a solution on 6.17 kernel (in RC3). Hope will b

Re: "bare metal" installation

(replying to both Go Canes (2 posts) and Patrick) On 9/17/2025 1:27 PM, Go Canes wrote: 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 corr

Re: Base fedora installation

> Am 20.09.2025 um 16:20 schrieb Ranjan Maitra via users > : > > I have been trying to install the base Fedora (which I have never actually > installed, relying more on my custom install of a openbox-WM-based system) > on an old laptop that used to run Debian. I would like to keep the existi

Base fedora installation

I have been trying to install the base Fedora (which I have never actually installed, relying more on my custom install of a openbox-WM-based system) on an old laptop that used to run Debian. I would like to keep the existing /home partition. I am not really that invested on the current parit

Using CUPS to print to a MarkDown file? - like what has been possible with PDF

People, I have made use of CUPS to print to PDF files for a looong time . . I couldn't find anything that suggests anyone has been working on providing the same facility for printing to MarkDown files - anyone know of anything? I have been increasingly making use of MD files as a convenient

Re: "bare metal" installation

On Fri, 2025-09-19 at 23:26 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/19/25 11:23 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > On Fri, 2025-09-19 at 23:17 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > The really nice thing about using subvolumes is that you don't have to > > > guess and hope that you get the sizes right for the / and /h

Re: "bare metal" installation

Tim: > > HDDs are getting less common, and they're the only drive left that is > > that size inside the domesticated PC. All the SSDs I see are either > > 3.5 inch laptop sized, or the ones that fit onto the motherboard M.2 > > header. Samuel Sieb wrote:: > You're one size off on those. You have