Re: Fedora 17 install dualboot with Windows 7 Home Premium goes nowhere

2012-10-11 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi Daniel, Thanks very much! I did not get a few points: > If the install is otherwise fine except for the bootloader, you could > boot from a live distro, chroot into the install and run "grub-install > /dev/sda". The process in steps: > > 1. Boot in to live environment > 2. Figure out in which

Re: Fedora 17 install dualboot with Windows 7 Home Premium goes nowhere

2012-10-11 Thread Daniel Landau
On 11 Oct 2012 16:01, "Ranjan Maitra" wrote: > > 4. mount /dev/sdaX /mnt/fedora > > I guess the X is for wherever the / partition is? > > > (4.b mount /dev/sdaY /mnt/fedora/boot) > > This Y is for the /boot partition? > Exactly so. > > 9. grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg (check here to find

Re: Fedora 17 install dualboot with Windows 7 Home Premium goes nowhere

2012-10-11 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Thanks again! Steps 1. and 2. have to be under fail-safe mode, or any terminal window? On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:55:57 +0300 Daniel Landau wrote: > On 11 Oct 2012 16:01, "Ranjan Maitra" wrote: > > > 4. mount /dev/sdaX /mnt/fedora > > > > I guess the X is for wherever the / partition is? > > > > >

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2012-10-11 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 22:44 -0700, gary clark wrote: ...[what I'm sure was a spam link, deleted]... Just wondering, can this mailing list auto-moderate postings that come in with multiple TO or CC recipient addresses? If so, that could automatically handle some of these things. -- [tim@localho

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-11 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 19:10 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > I was wondering about the PS2 keyboard, but my memory told me that you > had to reboot if it came unplugged. Guess that must be > Windows-specific. As far as I know, yes, it was a Windows problem that some couldn't handle a keyboard being unpl

Fedora 16 User Manager: can't edit Group Properties

2012-10-11 Thread John Pilkington
Hi: My f16 installation has been successively upgraded from about f12. My tv cards are recognised by the kernel, but ioctl problems have interfered with the setting up of new cards while not affecting the use of those already known. A post I saw today claimed that apparently similar problems

Re: Fedora 17 install dualboot with Windows 7 Home Premium goes nowhere

2012-10-11 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Sorry, but all well up to step 10 but not after: On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:02:37 +0300 Daniel Landau wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Ranjan Maitra > wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 06:52:20 -0400 Jim wrote: > >> On 10/09/2012 10:32 PM, JD wrote: > >> > You need to contact HP and they wil

Re: Fedora 17 install dualboot with Windows 7 Home Premium goes nowhere

2012-10-11 Thread Alan Cox
> % grub2-install /dev/sda.(There is no grub-install) > > /usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: warning: this LDM has no Embedding > Partition; embedding won't be possible. > > /usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: warning: Embedding is not > possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using > blocklis

F17: How to overcome NetworkManagers /etc/resolv.conf ?

2012-10-11 Thread Frank Elsner
Hi ALL, on my just installed Fedora 17 I've a problem with /etc/resolv.conf: Beginning of /etc/resolv.conf reads: # Generated by NetworkManager domain domain_not_set.invalid search domain_not_set.invalid The following lines for nameserver defin

Re: F17: How to overcome NetworkManagers /etc/resolv.conf ?

2012-10-11 Thread Jack Craig
For me, in network config, there is a domain box, is yours filed in properly? my expectation is this input tool ( /usr/bin/system-config-network) validates below config files... DOMAIN=languageline.com /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-Wired_connection_1 DOMAIN=languageline.com /etc/sysconfig

Re: Fedora 17 install dualboot with Windows 7 Home Premium goes nowhere

2012-10-11 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:38:53 +0100 Alan Cox wrote: > > % grub2-install /dev/sda.(There is no grub-install) > > > > /usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: warning: this LDM has no Embedding > > Partition; embedding won't be possible. > > > > /usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: warning: Embedding is not > > pos

Re: Smolt Retirement

2012-10-11 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:48:09PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:03:03PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > A replacement for much of the functionality of smolt is under > > > development, see the census project mailing list for more > > > information: http://lists.fedorahos

Re: yum upgrade problem

2012-10-11 Thread Temlakos
On 10/11/2012 08:51 PM, pringle...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i sorry if this was already posted in the list; i was a long day and tomorrow holds no promises. Today i check for updates (using a cli) and it listed various things to updates (i have updates-testing enable), and some of them was from oth

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-11 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 10/10/2012 10:44 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: == The keyboard knows I am getting good help at trying to solve this ... it behaved like a champ today. If it doesn't act up through the beginning of next week, I will consider that it is a POM issue caused by something in my install F17 process

Re: yum upgrade problem

2012-10-11 Thread pringle...@gmail.com
On Oct 11, 2012 10:21 PM, "Temlakos" wrote: > > On 10/11/2012 08:51 PM, pringle...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Hi, i sorry if this was already posted in the list; i was a long day and tomorrow holds no promises. >> Today i check for updates (using a cli) and it listed various things to updates (i have