Re: install and grub question

Le 30/04/2025 à 13:49, Barry a écrit : On 30 Apr 2025, at 09:03, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I have a f40 install on one disk (say /dev/sdc) and I want to install F42 on /dev/sda. I suppose that after the installation grub will propose to start f42 from the new disk, how can I add to

Re: install and grub question

> On 30 Apr 2025, at 09:03, François Patte wrote: > > Bonjour, > > I have a f40 install on one disk (say /dev/sdc) and I want to install F42 on > /dev/sda. > > I suppose that after the installation grub will propose to start f42 from the > new disk, how can I add to grub the now old f40? I

Re: install fedora from an installed os

On 12/12/24 7:53 AM, François Patte wrote: I have several disks on my computer and run f40 on one disk. Is it possible to install fedora on a free disk from my installed fedora (ie. without booting from an usb stick). You can install "anaconda-gui". I think that gives you the installer. But

Re: install fedora from an installed os

François Patte composed on 2024-12-12 16:53 (UTC+0100): > I have several disks on my computer and run f40 on one disk. > Is it possible to install fedora on a free disk from my installed fedora > (ie. without booting from an usb stick). Partitions and disks can be _cloned_. I do it often. What

Re: install fedora from an installed os

On 13/12/24 02:53, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I have several disks on my computer and run f40 on one disk. Is it possible to install fedora on a free disk from my installed fedora (ie. without booting from an usb stick). Thank you. Theoretically yes. If you have an ISO of the Fedora i

Re: install fedora 40 raid1+lvm

> Am 03.07.2024 um 18:34 schrieb François Patte > : > > Bonjour, > > Where can I find some details on the installation of fedora 40, I would like > to have raid1 arrays and lvm. For Fedora server you may have a look at: https://pboy.fedorapeople.org/InstGuideF33-Hetzner-en.pdf Not really a

Re: Installed Rawhide with btrfs; dnf system update to v40 has errors ; re-install from Live USB without affecting a non-root subvolume?

On Mon, Jun 3, 2024, at 3:42 PM, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: > So, if I try to reinstall from the current f40 live usb - can I do that > without touching the backup subvolume? ie: > > /dev/nvme0n1p3btrfs 1,951,850,496 464,659,184 1,486,438,224 > 24% / > /dev/nvme0n1p3btr

Re: Installed Rawhide with btrfs; dnf system update to v40 has errors ; re-install from Live USB without affecting a non-root subvolume?

ackups are good before an upgrade or install. OK - things to think about (thanks for that!) - but my immediate question has not been answered - is it actually possible to re-install from a Live-USB while preserving what is in the /backup subvolume - like I used to do with the ext4 /home partit

Re: Installed Rawhide with btrfs; dnf system update to v40 has errors ; re-install from Live USB without affecting a non-root subvolume?

On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 4:43 PM Philip Rhoades via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > People, > > A while ago I was in a hurry to start using F40 (Sway) and installed > Rawhide from a live usb to get started. > > Everything went pretty well and I had minimal problems up until after > f

Installed Rawhide with btrfs; dnf system update to v40 has errors ; re-install from Live USB without affecting a non-root subvolume?

People, A while ago I was in a hurry to start using F40 (Sway) and installed Rawhide from a live usb to get started. Everything went pretty well and I had minimal problems up until after f40 was release. However now, when I tried to do a: dnf system upgrade download --releasever=40 I ge

Re: Unable to login after fedora re-install

On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 17:11:43 - "old sixpack13" wrote: > > After moving from F37 to F36 and re-installing a user directory > > (with dot files) I discover that login for that user fails. No > > messages in /var/log, no error message. > > > > I assume that the problem is somewhere in one of th

Re: Unable to login after fedora re-install

> After moving from F37 to F36 and re-installing a user directory (with dot > files) I discover that login for that user fails. No messages in /var/log, > no error message. > > I assume that the problem is somewhere in one of the dot files. Any > suggestions? > > Thanks. do the user rights and o

Re: Unable to login after fedora re-install

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 10:40 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 2/22/23 16:17, Barry wrote: > > > > Please post under not above what you are commenting on. > > And while you're at it, trim out the parts of the post you're > responding to that aren't relevant, like the boilerplate at the bottom. Also, Ge

Re: Unable to login after fedora re-install

On 2/22/23 3:50 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: That would surely be foolish, no? Not at all, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#If_You_Are_Replying_to_a_Message ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe sen

Re: Unable to login after fedora re-install

Since reply formating has been brought up: I've noticed that even boilerplate often does not get trimmed. 'Tain't unique to this thread. 'Tis close to universal. The result is scrolling through multiple copies of boilerplate to get to the bottom and discover, lo and behold, more boilerplate, I ha

Re: Unable to login after fedora re-install

On Wed, 2023-02-22 at 23:17 +, Barry wrote: [...] Please don't post in HTML, or at least include a plaintext alternative: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#No_HTML_Mail,_Please poc ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedorap

Re: Unable to login after fedora re-install

On 2/22/23 16:17, Barry wrote: Please post under not above what you are commenting on. And while you're at it, trim out the parts of the post you're responding to that aren't relevant, like the boilerplate at the bottom. ___ users mailing list --

Re: Unable to login after fedora re-install

That would surely be foolish, no? On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 3:18 PM Barry wrote: > > > On 22 Feb 2023, at 19:25, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > >  > Thanks. That's half of the problem. Now, what about starting xterm from > ~user? > > > Please post under not above what you are commenting on. > > Are you

Re: Unable to login after fedora re-install

On 22 Feb 2023, at 19:25, Geoffrey Leach wrote:Thanks. That's half of the problem. Now, what about starting xterm from ~user?Please post under not above what you are commenting on.Are you saying that you do not have a GUI desktop installed and configured to alliw you to login?BarryOn Wed, Feb 22,

Re: Unable to login after fedora re-install

Thanks. That's half of the problem. Now, what about starting xterm from ~user? On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 9:25 AM Barry wrote: > > > > On 22 Feb 2023, at 17:19, Geoffrey Leach > wrote: > > > >  > > After moving from F37 to F36 and re-installing a user directory (with > dot files) I discover that

Re: Unable to login after fedora re-install

No. Just ~user On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 9:54 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 12:19 PM Geoffrey Leach > wrote: > > > > After moving from F37 to F36 and re-installing a user directory (with > dot files) I discover that login for that user fails. No messages in > /var/log, no err

Re: Unable to login after fedora re-install

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 12:19 PM Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > After moving from F37 to F36 and re-installing a user directory (with dot > files) I discover that login for that user fails. No messages in /var/log, no > error message. If you overwrote files like /etc/password, /etc/shadow and /etc/g

Re: Unable to login after fedora re-install

> On 22 Feb 2023, at 17:19, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > >  > After moving from F37 to F36 and re-installing a user directory (with dot > files) I discover that login for that user fails. No messages in /var/log, no > error message. > > I assume that the problem is somewhere in one of the dot fi

Unable to login after fedora re-install

After moving from F37 to F36 and re-installing a user directory (with dot files) I discover that login for that user fails. No messages in /var/log, no error message. I assume that the problem is somewhere in one of the dot files. Any suggestions? Thanks. _

Re: install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 12:37 AM Tim via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2022-08-12 at 14:48 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > > Manually partitioning disks was an onerous task for sys admins in the > bad old days. We didn't > > have UUID's, so had to be careful to keep

Re: install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

On Fri, 2022-08-12 at 10:49 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > Hi Patrick. I did try it and it worked as I expected. Fedora was > installed alongside Windows and dual boot is working flawlessly. > However, the Fedora installer did not show me how it was going to > partition the disk under the au

Re: install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

On Fri, 2022-08-12 at 14:48 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > Manually partitioning disks was an onerous task for sys admins in the bad old > days. We didn't > have UUID's, so had to be careful to keep track of which disk needed to be > partitioned, write down > the planned scheme, and careful

Re: install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

On 8/12/22 08:49, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2022, at 4:23 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I suggest you try it. The last time I did this was many years ago, but IIRC Fedora did not blindly remove an existing Windows partition (or other Linux for that matter). In any case it wi

Re: install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 12:54 PM Anil Felipe Duggirala < anilduggir...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022, at 6:07 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > > > mounted as the installer wanted, and then it proceeded to completion. As > > Patrick said, I would expect the automatic installation to set up

Re: install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022, at 6:07 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > mounted as the installer wanted, and then it proceeded to completion. As > Patrick said, I would expect the automatic installation to set up the > necessary partitions for you, but I don't know for sure as I have never > done an automati

Re: install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022, at 4:23 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I suggest you try it. The last time I did this was many years ago, but > IIRC Fedora did not blindly remove an existing Windows partition (or > other Linux for that matter). In any case it will tell you what it's > about to do and ask

Re: install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022, at 3:49 PM, George N. White III wrote: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/install-guide/install/Installing_Using_Anaconda/ > > With automatic partitioning, you can also select the `I would like to > make additional > ` > `space available` option below. Use

Re: install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 8:08 PM Stephen Morris wrote: > On 12/8/22 07:23, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2022-08-11 at 15:24 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > >> Thanks for your response George. but your answer doesn't tell me what > >> to do. > >> If I select automatic, and there is

Re: install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

On 12/8/22 07:23, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2022-08-11 at 15:24 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: Thanks for your response George. but your answer doesn't tell me what to do. If I select automatic, and there is space available for Fedora, will it proceed to install F alongside Win in

Re: install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

On Thu, 2022-08-11 at 15:24 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > Thanks for your response George. but your answer doesn't tell me what > to do. > If I select automatic, and there is space available for Fedora, will > it proceed to install F alongside Win in a dual boot setup? > Or will it clean th

Re: install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 5:25 PM Anil Felipe Duggirala < anilduggir...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Thanks for your response George. but your answer doesn't tell me what to > do. > If I select automatic, and there is space available for Fedora, will it > proceed to install F alongside Win in a dual boot s

Re: install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

Thanks for your response George. but your answer doesn't tell me what to do. If I select automatic, and there is space available for Fedora, will it proceed to install F alongside Win in a dual boot setup? Or will it clean the whole disk and leave only Fedora? Thank you. __

Re: install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 12:52 PM Anil Felipe Duggirala < anilduggir...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > hello everyone, > I have done this before, but now I have one big doubt when completing > installation of F36 alongside Win 10. > I shrunk one of the Win partitions to create good space for my Fedora > ins

Re: Install error

On Tue, 5 Jul 2022 17:35:03 +0200 GianPiero Puccioni wrote: > Hi, > I am installing F36, from the "netinstall disk" on a HP laptop (dual > boot, Xfce). > > After downloading and installing it gives this: > error in POSTTRANS scriptlet in rpm package grub2 common > and aborts the installation, tw

Re: install quirks

On 16/10/2021 11:07, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 10/15/21 03:09, Ed Greshko wrote: dnf history PackageKit-command-not-found linux]# dnf history PackageKit-command-not-found No transaction which manipulates package 'PackageKit-command-not-found' was found. inux]# dnf history PackageKit

Re: install quirks

On 16/10/2021 11:17, Robert McBroom via users wrote: This is the sequence I saw.  The rpm was not in a /var/cache/dnf directory on completion. Expected /var/cache/dnf/fedora* If you saw exactly what I saw, then that is a packagekit utility and the downloaded rpms will not be in the dnf cache

Re: install quirks

On 10/15/21 03:09, Ed Greshko wrote: On 15/10/2021 11:56, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 10/12/21 02:45, Ed Greshko wrote: Sounds like you have PackageKit-command-not-found installed on your system. What would install PackageKit-command-not-found if PackageKit is not used? Would just a l

Re: install quirks

On 10/15/21 03:09, Ed Greshko wrote: dnf history PackageKit-command-not-found linux]# dnf history PackageKit-command-not-found No transaction which manipulates package 'PackageKit-command-not-found' was found. inux]# dnf history PackageKit* No transaction which manipulates package 'PackageKi

Re: install quirks

On 15/10/2021 11:56, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 10/12/21 02:45, Ed Greshko wrote: Sounds like you have PackageKit-command-not-found installed on your system. What would install PackageKit-command-not-found if PackageKit is not used? Would just a look at Gnome desktop pull it in? Seeme

Re: install quirks

On 10/12/21 02:45, Ed Greshko wrote: On 12/10/2021 00:08, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Normally I use dnf to update and install. I keep a local repo on USB to move from one machine to another without downloading. Occasionally I try a command from memory and bash tells me that it is not ins

Re: install quirks

On 12/10/2021 00:08, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Normally I use dnf to update and install.  I keep a local repo on USB to move from one machine to another without downloading. Occasionally I try a command from memory and bash tells me that it is not installed on the system and with the pro

Re: install quirks

On 2021-10-11 20:47, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 10/11/21 22:34, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2021-10-11 09:08, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Normally I use dnf to update and install. I keep a local repo on USB to move from one machine to another without downloading. Occasionally I try a co

Re: install quirks

On 10/11/21 22:34, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2021-10-11 09:08, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Normally I use dnf to update and install. I keep a local repo on USB to move from one machine to another without downloading. Occasionally I try a command from memory and bash tells me that it is not in

Re: install quirks

On 2021-10-11 09:08, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Normally I use dnf to update and install.  I keep a local repo on USB to move from one machine to another without downloading. Occasionally I try a command from memory and bash tells me that it is not installed on the system and with the pro

Re: Install Clonezilla on Fedora 34.

On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 at 11:47, Bob Marcan wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 16:35:12 +0200 > Ger van Dijck wrote: > > ... > > How to install Clonezilla: > > === > > > > 1 . rpmfusion-(non)(free)-release-34.noarch.rpm is inslalled. > > 2 . https://github.com/rpmsphere/noarch/tree/master/r g

Re: Install Clonezilla on Fedora 34.

Am 28.06.2021 um 16:35 schrieb Ger van Dijck: On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 at 13:36, Ger van Dijck mailto:ger.vandi...@edpnet.be>> wrote: Hi all, I tried to install Clonezilla on Fedora 34 . But no luck : I need help. That doesn't tell us what you tried or how it failed. Are you trying

Re: Install Clonezilla on Fedora 34.

On 2021-06-28 at 16:47:24 Bob Marcan wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 16:35:12 +0200 > Ger van Dijck wrote: > > ... > > How to install Clonezilla: > > === > > > > 1 . rpmfusion-(non)(free)-release-34.noarch.rpm is inslalled. > > 2 . https://github.com/rpmsphere/noarch/tree/master/r give

Re: Install Clonezilla on Fedora 34.

On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 16:35:12 +0200 Ger van Dijck wrote: ... > How to install Clonezilla: > === > > 1 . rpmfusion-(non)(free)-release-34.noarch.rpm is inslalled. > 2 . https://github.com/rpmsphere/noarch/tree/master/r gives no such file or > directory. > > 3 . rpm -Uvh rpmsphere-rel

Re: Install Clonezilla on Fedora 34.

On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 at 13:36, Ger van Dijck > wrote: Hi all, I tried to install Clonezilla on Fedora 34 . But no luck : I need help. That doesn't tell us what you tried or how it failed. Are you trying to install this package: https://fedora.pkgs.o

Re: Install Clonezilla on Fedora 34.

On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 at 13:36, Ger van Dijck wrote: > Hi all, > > > I tried to install Clonezilla on Fedora 34 . > > > But no luck : I need help. > > That doesn't tell us what you tried or how it failed. Are you trying to install this package: https://fedora.pkgs.org/34/rpm-sphere-noarch/clonez

Re: Install Fedora -

On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 3:50 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sun, 2020-11-01 at 19:00 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 6:51 AM John Mellor wrote: > > > On 2020-10-31 10:46 p.m., Tim via users wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2020-10-31 at 16:11 +, lancelasset...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Install Fedora -

On Sun, 2020-11-01 at 19:00 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 6:51 AM John Mellor wrote: > > On 2020-10-31 10:46 p.m., Tim via users wrote: > > > On Sat, 2020-10-31 at 16:11 +, lancelasset...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > Will NFS tell you data has been corrupted during the transf

Re: Install Fedora -

On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 7:00 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > ddrescue by default reads the whole file (via the mounted file system, > not pointing it to raw sectors), but with truncated bad 4KiB blocks. > The bad blocks are simply missing, there is no gap filled with zeros > or some other pattern unless

Re: Install Fedora -

On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 6:51 AM John Mellor wrote: > > On 2020-10-31 10:46 p.m., Tim via users wrote: > > On Sat, 2020-10-31 at 16:11 +, lancelasset...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Will NFS tell you data has been corrupted during the transfer and > >> write process? > > Does any filing system? In gen

Re: Install Fedora -

On 2020-10-31 10:46 p.m., Tim via users wrote: On Sat, 2020-10-31 at 16:11 +, lancelasset...@gmail.com wrote: Will NFS tell you data has been corrupted during the transfer and write process? Does any filing system? In general, writes to storage are assumed to have worked unless something t

Re: Install Fedora -

On Sat, 2020-10-31 at 16:11 +, lancelasset...@gmail.com wrote: > Will NFS tell you data has been corrupted during the transfer and > write process? Does any filing system? In general, writes to storage are assumed to have worked unless something throws up an error message. Your hard drive co

Re: Install Fedora -

On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 04:11:30PM -, lancelasset...@gmail.com wrote: > If you write and ISO to a thumb drive over NFS, how are you going to > checksum the ISO after it's transferred over the network? Will NFS tell > you data has been corrupted during the transfer and write process? I > thought

Re: Install Fedora -

If you write and ISO to a thumb drive over NFS, how are you going to checksum the ISO after it's transferred over the network? Will NFS tell you data has been corrupted during the transfer and write process? I thought he was short on local storage so needed to write the image from a local netw

Re: install to removable drive?

On 10/27/20 4:45 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Is F32's installer likely to want EFI? No, it will install in whatever mode the computer was booted in. I have one computer. Asking for help in the middle of an install would be difficult. I'd rather it did not require information I did not already

Re: install to removable drive?

On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 10/27/20 12:53 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Can F32 be installed to a removable drive, e.g. an SD card in a USB SD card reader? If so, any traps or tricks I should know about? Yes, it can. If you're doing it on an EFI system, be aware that it will l

Re: install to removable drive?

On 10/27/20 12:53 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Can F32 be installed to a removable drive, e.g. an SD card in a USB SD card reader? If so, any traps or tricks I should know about? Yes, it can. If you're doing it on an EFI system, be aware that it will likely replace the existing Fedora boot ent

Re: Install Fedora -

On 10/24/20 3:12 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2020-10-23 04:56, Merovingian Puccioni wrote: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive And make a USB stick that can boot any one of a collection of iso images off the USB stick. I got the last few versions of ubuntu and fedora, memt

Re: Install Fedora -

On 2020-10-23 04:56, Merovingian Puccioni wrote: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive And make a USB stick that can boot any one of a collection of iso images off the USB stick. I got the last few versions of ubuntu and fedora, memtest, and systemrescue all able to boot fr

Re: Install Fedora -

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020, at 11:39 AM, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: > > Isn't MemTest86 part of the "Systemrescue CD"? At least the one I use > from > https://www.system-rescue.org/System-tools/ has Memtest86 (for regular) > and > memtester (for UEFI). Yes, good point. And with some more research I fo

Re: Install Fedora -

On 10/23/20 6:33 PM, Doug H. wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2020, at 1:56 AM, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: On 10/22/20 11:17 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On this topic (probably too late to do any good), I use the technique here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive And make a USB stick th

Re: Install Fedora -

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020, at 1:56 AM, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: > On 10/22/20 11:17 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On this topic (probably too late to do any good), I use > > the technique here: > > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive > > > > And make a USB stick that can boot an

Re: Install Fedora -

On 10/22/20 11:17 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On this topic (probably too late to do any good), I use the technique here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive And make a USB stick that can boot any one of a collection of iso images off the USB stick. I got the last few versions o

Re: Install Fedora -

On this topic (probably too late to do any good), I use the technique here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive And make a USB stick that can boot any one of a collection of iso images off the USB stick. I got the last few versions of ubuntu and fedora, memtest, and systemres

Re: Install Fedora -

On 10/22/20 8:09 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: * I'm sorry about the missed attribute, I thought it was pretty much implied since it was part of a thread in which several people had contributed similar advice. Beyond that the responses begin to look more bloggy to me, I've noticed some messages just

Re: Install Fedora -

On 10/22/20 7:51 AM, Tim via users wrote: I'd always understood that any drive you were dd'ing to should be unmounted. You wouldn't want another thing to try and write to it as well. However, has anyone else encountered this behaviour: You plug in your spare flashdrive. You look for its devic

Re: Install Fedora -

On 10/22/20 7:37 AM, Tim via users wrote: Tim: If you boot an install disc as a live OS (it running from that install as a usable OS), it has an install to hard drive icon on the desktop that will simply dump itself to a hard drive, with little choice about how it's down. Samuel Sieb: You sti

Re: Install Fedora -

On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 11:01 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > Why would you say something like that about NFS? NFS is a network > filesystem that has been used since before Linux even existed. I > can't think of any common protocol where transferring a file over the > network could affect the integrit

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On Thu, 2020-10-22 at 07:56 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > It’s not a terrible idea to use sync. You absolutely should not be > running dd to a device that is used in a mounted file system. It > should be unmounted first. Then there is no risk of sync corrupting > the disk. I'd always understo

Re: Install Fedora -

On Thu, 2020-10-22 at 08:09 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > sorry about the missed attribute That doesn't matter. It's just a bit confusing when someone says follow person X's example, when it's really person Y's, and both of them have provided examples in a thread, if you were trying to work out who

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Tim: >> If you boot an install disc as a live OS (it running from that >> install as a usable OS), it has an install to hard drive icon on the >> desktop that will simply dump itself to a hard drive, with little >> choice about how it's down. Samuel Sieb: > You still have all the same partitioning

Re: Install Fedora -

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 08:09:37AM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Yes, I want "Standard Partitions" as media writer names it, rather than a > Fedora 33 LVM system which I find adds a layer of complexity I prefer not to > have. I apologize if we were confusing earlier, there is no connection between M

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On 2020-10-21 22:21, Tim via users wrote: I wouldn't do it (writing an iso over the network from NFS storage, due to the network possibly messing up the integrity of the iso image) but you should still be able to with the "dd" command. Issue a "mount" command and you should see the mount path

Re: Install Fedora -

On Oct 22, 2020, at 02:47, J.Witvliet--- via users wrote: > > > After doing the “dd” to the raw device, do not do a “sync”, as this is for > synchronizing filesystems. Just remove the device. > In case something tried to mount the content of the device (before it was > wiped by dd) it might t

Re: Install Fedora -

0 at 20:02:28 To: "users@lists.fedoraproject.org" mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> Subject: Re: Install Fedora - On 10/21/20 7:34 AM, Lance Lassetter wrote: > I wouldn't do it (writing an iso over the network from NFS storage, due > to the network possibly messing u

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freshly written image. From: "Bob Goodwin" mailto:bobgood...@fastmail.us>> Date: Wednesday, 21 October 2020 at 21:36:01 To: "users@lists.fedoraproject.org" mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> Subject: Re: Install Fedora - On 2020-10-21 10:34, Lance Lasse

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Sorry, Tim. My bad. I got the names mixed up. On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 9:21 PM Tim via users wrote: > On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 09:34 -0500, Lance Lassetter wrote: > > I wouldn't do it (writing an iso over the network from NFS storage, > > due to the network possibly messing up the integrity of the

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On 10/21/20 7:34 PM, Tim via users wrote: If you boot an install disc as a live OS (it running from that install as a usable OS), it has an install to hard drive icon on the desktop that will simply dump itself to a hard drive, with little choice about how it's down. You still have all the same

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On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 15:35 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Well 'dd' worked without a problem to clear the PNY 64GB drive I > that was at hand and I put Fedora 33 beta on it: It usually does. There are some odd cases where it won't, but I'd only bother with going into that if you're trying to work

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On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 10:04 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Upon completing it's work media writer presents a block that says > "Install." I do not know what happens after I click on that except > that it does what is needed to finish the job. Quite possibly it is > using "dd" as you describe. It ins

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On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 09:34 -0500, Lance Lassetter wrote: > I wouldn't do it (writing an iso over the network from NFS storage, > due to the network possibly messing up the integrity of the iso > image) but you should still be able to with the "dd" command. Issue > a "mount" command and you should

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On 2020-10-21 15:49, Jonathan Billings wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by 'getting the standard partition scheme'. Are you talking about the install from the newly-written Fedora disk? Or the actual layout of partitions on the USB storage you just wrote? Fedora Media Writer doesn't do anyt

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On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 03:35:25PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Well 'dd' worked without a problem to clear the PNY 64GB drive I that was at > hand and I put Fedora 33 beta on  it: > > [root@WS-1 /]# dd > if=/home/bobg/Downloads/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-33_Beta-1.3.iso > of=/dev/sdc bs=8M sta

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On Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 2:35 PM Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > On 2020-10-21 10:34, Lance Lassetter wrote: > > > > I wouldn't do it (writing an iso over the network from NFS storage, > > due to the network possibly messing up the integrity of the iso image) > > but you should still be able to with the "d

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On 2020-10-21 10:34, Lance Lassetter wrote: I wouldn't do it (writing an iso over the network from NFS storage, due to the network possibly messing up the integrity of the iso image) but you should still be able to with the "dd" command.  Issue a "mount" command and you should see the mount

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On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 11:01:56 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > Why would you say something like that about NFS? NFS is a network > filesystem that has been used since before Linux even existed. I can't > think of any common protocol where transferring a file over the network > could affect the integ

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On 10/21/20 7:34 AM, Lance Lassetter wrote: I wouldn't do it (writing an iso over the network from NFS storage, due to the network possibly messing up the integrity of the iso image) but you should still be able to with the "dd" command.  Issue a "mount" command and you should see the mount pat

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On 2020-10-21 10:34, Lance Lassetter wrote: I wouldn't do it (writing an iso over the network from NFS storage, due to the network possibly messing up the integrity of the iso image) but you should still be able to with the "dd" command.  Issue a "mount" command and you should see the mount p

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On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 9:04 AM Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > On 2020-10-21 09:34, Tim via users wrote: > > "dd" on the command line is one alternative. But I suspect your > > problem is expecting Media Writer to do something that it doesn't do, > > and you forgot how you actually did it last time. >

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On 2020-10-21 09:34, Tim via users wrote: "dd" on the command line is one alternative. But I suspect your problem is expecting Media Writer to do something that it doesn't do, and you forgot how you actually did it last time. . Upon completing it's work media writer presents a block that s

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On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 07:28 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > this all good information but I have never used media writer to > create the fedora.iso installation media. Other way around. You give Media Writer your downloaded ISO file, and it creates a bootable disk (optical disk or flashdrive) from th

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