Re: How to install F35

2022-04-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/5/22 18:58, Michael Hennebry wrote: How do I tell F35 to use X? Assuming you're not actually on the live boot, when you are at the login screen, click on your user. Then before you enter your password, there should be a gear icon somewhere. Cl

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/5/22 18:58, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/5/22 14:40, Michael Hennebry wrote: a black window that appears when I try to use gvim. Any suggestions regarding that last? What does "echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE" show?  I'm using wayland and it works fine

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/5/22 14:40, Michael Hennebry wrote: a black window that appears when I try to use gvim. Any suggestions regarding that last? What does "echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE" show? I'm using wayland and it works fine and I can't imagine it would work less on

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/5/22 14:40, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/5/22 08:51, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: Install "monitor-edid" and run it.  See if it sees the correct monitor resolutions. $ monitor-edid you must be root to run this pro

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Bob Marcan wrote: According to the few first lines in the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg # # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by grub2-mkconfig using templates # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub # ... "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" i

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/5/22 08:51, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: Install "monitor-edid" and run it.  See if it sees the correct monitor resolutions. $ monitor-edid you must be root to run this program That is strange. It worked for me

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-05 Thread Bob Marcan
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 14:20:20 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> Also 'twould be nice to not have to remove nomodeset by hand each time. > >> What file do I edit to make it permanant? > >> > > > > /etc/default/grub > > You need to edit that, but that's not enough. You need to also either > edit

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/5/22 12:58, Bob Marcan wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 14:12:09 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: Had it worked, would the screen have changed instantly? Rebooting without nomodeset did the trick. How do I make that permanent? Any idea why I got a permission denied error? Now I just need t

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/5/22 08:51, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: Install "monitor-edid" and run it.  See if it sees the correct monitor resolutions. $ monitor-edid you must be root to run this program That is strange. It worked for me as a user. $ sudo monitor-edid mmap /de

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-05 Thread Bob Marcan
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 14:12:09 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > >> Had it worked, would the screen have changed instantly? > > > > Rebooting without nomodeset did the trick. > > How do I make that permanent? > > Any idea why I got a permission denied error? > > > > Now I just need to move /va

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: Run "cat /proc/cmdline". Is there a "nomodeset" option in there? Install "monitor-edid" and run it. See if it sees the correct monitor resolutions. omplete! $

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: Run "cat /proc/cmdline". Is there a "nomodeset" option in there? Install "monitor-edid" and run it. See if it sees the correct monitor resolutions. omplete! $ monitor-edid you must be root to run this pro

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/4/22 23:06, Michael Hennebry wrote: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q33 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) The monitor is an Acer V193 19" 1440 x 900 (8:5)  "Compatible with Vista". According to settings, I am

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/4/22 23:06, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: What is your video device?  Workstation uses Wayland by default, so the X info applications are not very useful, they will be getting info from the XWayland server.  If you want to know the resolution, use the Disp

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 4 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/4/22 08:59, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2022, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/3/22 23:10, Michael Hennebry wrote: It told me it was finished without prompting me for a root password or another user na

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Tim via users wrote: Joe Zeff: I've never had any trouble telling Anaconda that I want to use a custom partitioning scheme. It might have been a release or two back, but there was one where it wasn't very obvious how to get into customising such things. Some nondescript

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-04 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> With a certain amount of hunting around it was possible to go into >> manual partitioning in the installers and select ones you'd already >> made, overriding it doing things automatically. Not that I can >> recall trying this with recent releases. Joe Zeff: > I've never had any trouble te

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 4/4/22 16:05, Samuel Sieb wrote: Yes, some of the spins have user and/or root configuration, but this has all been about workstation specifically. I had no reason to think that workstation and spins are different in this regard and see no reason that they should be. _

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/4/22 13:00, Joe Zeff wrote: On 4/4/22 13:19, Samuel Sieb wrote: Was it the workstation live image?  I just checked it and the only options are Keyboard, Time & Date, and Storage. It was the regular XFCE live image.  It looks like the option to set the root password isn't active but if yo

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 4/4/22 13:19, Samuel Sieb wrote: Was it the workstation live image?  I just checked it and the only options are Keyboard, Time & Date, and Storage. It was the regular XFCE live image. It looks like the option to set the root password isn't active but if you click on it you're allowed to se

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/4/22 12:06, Joe Zeff wrote: On 4/4/22 12:49, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/4/22 10:54, Joe Zeff wrote: On 4/4/22 11:21, Samuel Sieb wrote: Yes, it doesn't set the root password.  You are expected to use sudo. If you want to directly use root, then you can do "sudo passwd" to set the password.

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 4/4/22 12:49, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/4/22 10:54, Joe Zeff wrote: On 4/4/22 11:21, Samuel Sieb wrote: Yes, it doesn't set the root password.  You are expected to use sudo. If you want to directly use root, then you can do "sudo passwd" to set the password. Actually, in the GUI version of

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/4/22 10:54, Joe Zeff wrote: On 4/4/22 11:21, Samuel Sieb wrote: Yes, it doesn't set the root password.  You are expected to use sudo. If you want to directly use root, then you can do "sudo passwd" to set the password. Actually, in the GUI version of Anaconda, there's a place where you c

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 4/4/22 11:21, Samuel Sieb wrote: Yes, it doesn't set the root password.  You are expected to use sudo. If you want to directly use root, then you can do "sudo passwd" to set the password. Actually, in the GUI version of Anaconda, there's a place where you can set the root password, but you

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/4/22 08:59, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2022, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/3/22 23:10, Michael Hennebry wrote: It told me it was finished without prompting me for a root password or another user name. I was under the impression it was sup

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/4/22 07:53, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/3/22 23:10, Michael Hennebry wrote: The shadow password file on partition 3 is full of empty passwords. They aren't empty, they are disabled.  You can't login to those accounts with a password. Not :*:, :

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 4 Apr 2022, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/3/22 23:10, Michael Hennebry wrote: It told me it was finished without prompting me for a root password or another user name. I was under the impression it was supposed to do that. The workstation instal

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 4 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/3/22 23:10, Michael Hennebry wrote: The shadow password file on partition 3 is full of empty passwords. They aren't empty, they are disabled. You can't login to those accounts with a password. Not :*:, :: . That said, I'll try it. -- Michael

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 4 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/3/22 23:10, Michael Hennebry wrote: It told me it was finished without prompting me for a root password or another user name. I was under the impression it was supposed to do that. The workstation install sets up the initial user at the first boot o

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/3/22 23:10, Michael Hennebry wrote: The shadow password file on partition 3 is full of empty passwords. They aren't empty, they are disabled. You can't login to those accounts with a password. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/3/22 23:10, Michael Hennebry wrote: It told me it was finished without prompting me for a root password or another user name. I was under the impression it was supposed to do that. The workstation install sets up the initial user at the first boot of the installed system. ___

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 4 Apr 2022, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2022-04-03 at 16:23 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: How does one install F35? I've got the workstation iso on a DVD. It runs, but clicking on install seems to have little or no effect. I certainly do not get any prompts for the next step. What is

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-03 Thread Joe Zeff
On 4/3/22 23:00, Tim via users wrote: With a certain amount of hunting around it was possible to go into manual partitioning in the installers and select ones you'd already made, overriding it doing things automatically. Not that I can recall trying this with recent releases. I've never had an

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-03 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-04-03 at 16:23 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > How does one install F35? > I've got the workstation iso on a DVD. > It runs, but clicking on install seems to have little or no effect. > I certainly do not get any prompts for the next step. > What is the magic formula? Have you booted

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/3/22 17:17, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: Clicking the install button should bring up the Anaconda installer window. If that doesn't work, then open a terminal and run "liveinst" to see what's going wrong. Alas: liveuser@localhost-live ~]$ su [root@local

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 3 Apr 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: Clicking the install button should bring up the Anaconda installer window. If that doesn't work, then open a terminal and run "liveinst" to see what's going wrong. Alas: liveuser@localhost-live ~]$ su [root@localhost-live liveuser]# liveinst Starting ins

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-03 Thread Eddie O'Connor
Just wondering if the iso burned to DVD "completely / correctly"?I've done countless Fedora installs/updates/upgrades, and a lot of times the DVD / CD procedure doesn't work as well as the USB procedure doesjust my two cents... EGO II On Sun, Apr 3, 2022, 5:24 PM Michael Hennebry < he

Re: How to install F35

2022-04-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/3/22 14:23, Michael Hennebry wrote: How does one install F35? I've got the workstation iso on a DVD. It runs, but clicking on install seems to have little or no effect. I certainly do not get any prompts for the next step. What is the magic formula? Clicking the install button should bring

How to install F35

2022-04-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
How does one install F35? I've got the workstation iso on a DVD. It runs, but clicking on install seems to have little or no effect. I certainly do not get any prompts for the next step. What is the magic formula? BTW I do not have the wiggle room for dual boot. I backed up my home directory and