Re: help, (Fedora 8 is no longer supported)

2010-01-31 Thread Clemens Eisserer
> It's the only answer that makes sense. Running F8 now (or any other no > longer supported release) is asking for your machine to get rooted by some > cracker. Well, for the average laptop user that point probably counts the least ;) - Clemnes -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: help, (Fedora 8 is no longer supported)

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Martin wrote: > perhaps his system won't allow him to run anything later than FC8. > Perhaps his system is running an Intel Video chipset that won't come up > with the stupid new Intel video drivers and Xorg (I know from experience > as I have a system that is in that exact state and no amoun

Re: help, (Fedora 8 is no longer supported)

2010-01-29 Thread Allann Jones
You can search for a active F8 repository (HTTP or FTP) on NET, and modify 'baseurl' on /etc/yum.conf, this is what I've done. I think that livna repository has the extra support for media formats. Maybe freshrpms too. But you will not find new updates, only the updates that you doesn't have applie

Re: help, (Fedora 8 is no longer supported)

2010-01-28 Thread Michal
> perhaps his system won't allow him to run anything later than FC8. > Perhaps his system is running an Intel Video chipset that won't come up > with the stupid new Intel video drivers and Xorg (I know from experience > as I have a system that is in that *exact* state and no amount of google > sea

Re: help, (Fedora 8 is no longer supported)

2010-01-28 Thread Kevin Martin
n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > On 01/28/2010 08:24 AM, Prabhakar Pandey wrote: > >> i have recently installed fedora-8 together with windows vista. >> i hav some problems in fedora . >> 1. my time is not showing correctly in fedora as i try to change it the >> time in vista is changed. >> 2. Sof

Re: help, (Fedora 8 is no longer supported)

2010-01-28 Thread Nik
On 01/29/2010 01:14 AM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > On 01/28/2010 08:24 AM, Prabhakar Pandey wrote: > >> i have recently installed fedora-8 together with windows vista. >> i hav some problems in fedora . >> 1. my time is not showing correctly in fedora as i try to change it the >> time in vist

Re: help, (Fedora 8 is no longer supported)

2010-01-28 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 01/28/2010 08:24 AM, Prabhakar Pandey wrote: > i have recently installed fedora-8 together with windows vista. > i hav some problems in fedora . > 1. my time is not showing correctly in fedora as i try to change it the > time in vista is changed. > 2. Software Updater isn't working correctly . a