On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Alan Cox wrote:
I'm thinking of setting up a new CentOS user with ID 1000,
moving all my files to the new user,
removing my old user entry,
and finally changing the username of the new user back to me.
This works. You may also need to change the ownership
of /var/mail/user
> I'm thinking of setting up a new CentOS user with ID 1000,
> moving all my files to the new user,
> removing my old user entry,
> and finally changing the username of the new user back to me.
This works. You may also need to change the ownership
of /var/mail/username and move any quota files ove
Around 01:35am on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 (UK time), Timothy Murphy scrawled:
> Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
> >> The new lower limit of 1000 for normal user and group IDs is another
> >> issue. The current user has IDs 500 and has rather
> >> a lot of files that I want to keep.
> >> Fedora's docu
On 01/23/2012 05:35 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
>>> The new lower limit of 1000 for normal user and group IDs is another
>>> issue. The current user has IDs 500 and has rather
>>> a lot of files that I want to keep.
>>> Fedora's documentation says to use a kickstart file
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:
The new lower limit of 1000 for normal user and group IDs is another issue.
The current user has IDs 500 and has rather
a lot of files that I want to keep.
Fedora's documentation says to use a kickstart fi
On 1/23/2012 5:35 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm thinking of setting up a new CentOS user with ID 1000,
moving all my files to the new user,
removing my old user entry,
and finally changing the username of the new user back to me.
Tim:
That's what I did ... brute force rather than clever and
Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> The new lower limit of 1000 for normal user and group IDs is another
>> issue. The current user has IDs 500 and has rather
>> a lot of files that I want to keep.
>> Fedora's documentation says to use a kickstart file to keep 500.
>
> How?
> If it's documented anywhere,
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:
As my current installation is EOL,
there are things I would like to know before trying to install F16.
The new lower limit of 1000 for normal user and group IDs is another issue.
The current user has IDs 500 and has rather
a lot of files that I wan
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:
The new lower limit of 1000 for normal user and group IDs is another issue.
The current user has IDs 500 and has rather
a lot of files that I want to keep.
Fedora's documentation says to use a kickstart file to keep 500.
The file affected is /etc/lo
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 20:32 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> As my current installation is EOL,
> there are things I would like to know before trying to install F16.
> For me, installation has always been a struggle.
> I approach new requirements with increased fear and trepidation.
> I don't do u
On 11/01/12 02:32, Michael Hennebry wrote:
As my current installation is EOL,
there are things I would like to know before trying to install F16.
If you are uncertain.
Dowload and run a LiveCD of whatever flavour DE you like.
This may let you know in advance of and hardware issues.
Backup your
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> As my current installation is EOL,
> there are things I would like to know before trying to install F16.
> For me, installation has always been a struggle.
> I approach new requirements with increased fear and trepidation.
> I don't do upgrades.
> It seems to me that an u
T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> This section of the installation guide explains how to install from an
> ISO image on your hard drive in detail:
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/s1-
installationmethod-x86.html
>
> Note that you don't even need a minimal installa
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Mark LaPierre wrote:
On 01/10/2012 09:32 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
As my current installation is EOL,
there are things I would like to know before trying to install F16.
For me, installation has always been a struggle.
Fedora is the upstream development environment for
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Michael Hennebry
wrote:
As my current installation is EOL,
there are things I would like to know before trying to install F16.
Is GPT mandatory?
Ananconda will only use GPT partition tables when completely er
On 01/10/2012 09:32 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
As my current installation is EOL,
there are things I would like to know before trying to install F16.
For me, installation has always been a struggle.
I approach new requirements with increased fear and trepidation.
I don't do upgrades.
It seems to
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Michael Hennebry
wrote:
> As my current installation is EOL,
> there are things I would like to know before trying to install F16.
> For me, installation has always been a struggle.
> I approach new requirements with increased fear and trepidation.
> I don't do upg
As my current installation is EOL,
there are things I would like to know before trying to install F16.
For me, installation has always been a struggle.
I approach new requirements with increased fear and trepidation.
I don't do upgrades.
It seems to me that an upgrade must be more complicated than
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