On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:52:36 +0800
Ed Greshko wrote:
> That'll work, as long as you disable any 3rd party repos you may have
> which don't have rawhide components.
Hence place "skip_if_unavailable=1" in 3rd party repos.
Notes, the 404's but carries on.
as user:
yumdownloader --source --releasev
Hi!
I have a workplace that only allows access of "free internet" servers at
:80 (and :443).
What if my server should have several services (https, ssh, vnc etc), that
need to be accessed from this restricted subnet?
My server has an own domain, e.g. mydomain.net
My idea was to create as many tap
On 12 February 2014 00:45, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 02/12/14 06:27, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Frank Murphy wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:23:37 -0500 (EST)
> >> "Robert P. J. Day" wrote:
> >>
> >>> currently (against my better judgment) updating one of the fedora
>
On 02/12/2014 12:26 AM, Robert Dady wrote:
Could this work? What else do I need to make this work?
This is actually a brainstorming, but who knows maybe it results
something useful.
To be honest, this sounds like you're trying to violate (or at least
circumvent) your company's security policy
I can't remember,
but used "yum check-update"
return "no updates available",
if there was none.
[root@]# yum check-update
Loaded plugins: langpacks, local, versionlock
#repo checking snipped
[root@]#
yum-3.4.3-132.fc20.noarch
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Frank
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Hello,
I've two systems running F20 + updates-testing, a T400 laptop and a
desktop PC. PC was upgraded with yum from F18, laptop was a fresh
install. Both experience the same problems, at least for roughly two
weeks now, maybe longer (not sure when this started, maybe even from
the install in
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, poma wrote:
> On 11.02.2014 23:41, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > last question about "building kernel" wiki page, i promise. here:
> >
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel#Build_the_New_Kernel
> >
> > one reads:
> >
> > "To build with firmware includ
The thing is that circumvention is also possible by disabling direct proxy
script download and set direct internet access, in that case there is no
need set up service-subdomain multiplexing.
It could also be possible to set httpd:80 and everything else on 443 where
some php script switches which
A friend who is not computer literate at all has a Dell 1520 laptop
which when new, Dell required it have xp installed. I insisted at the
time that the hd have 2 partitions as I intended to install either
Fedora or Ubuntu but that was years ago and I had forgotten all about it
till today.
Macaf
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, poma wrote:
> On 11.02.2014 23:48, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >
> >> On 02/12/14 06:27, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Frank Murphy wrote:
> >>>
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:23:37 -0500 (EST)
> "Robert P. J. D
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:56:40 +, Frank Murphy wrote:
> I can't remember,
> but used "yum check-update"
> return "no updates available",
> if there was none.
"yum update" does that. "yum check-update" returns zero (False) if no
updates are available and non-zero (True), if updates are available
On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Robert P. J. Day
> currently (against my better judgment) updating one of the fedora
> wiki pages:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel
>
> and i'm fairly sure
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 21:34:55 +1100
Roger wrote:
> A friend who is not computer literate at all has a Dell 1520 laptop
> which when new, Dell required it have xp installed.
XP will be EOL on April 8th 2014
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/endofsupport.aspx
Tell her not to use
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 02/12/14 15:38, Frank Murphy wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:23:56 +0800
> > Ed Greshko wrote:
> >
> >> --enablerepo would need to be available to yumdownloader since the
> >> user may well want to download the source from "rawhide" so they
> >> indee
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 08:11:43PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> So, does this mean people will soon (if not already)
> be writing malicious web pages that use d-bus
> and systemd to take over your system if you happen
> to visit the page?
No. There's no mechanism for them to do this.
> Or forget w
Allegedly, on or about 12 February 2014, Roger sent:
> A friend who is not computer literate at all has a Dell 1520 laptop
> which when new, Dell required it have xp installed.
As has already been said, XP support dies very soon. It's not safe to
use XP on the net after then. It was never parti
Hi,
>> I'm interested in setting up an online photo album. I've used Gallery
>> in the past, but wondered if anyone had any other recommendations that
>> would work well with Fedora?
>>
>> A PHP or perl based application would be best.
>
> http://coppermine-gallery.net/
Thanks TIm, looks like a g
http://shalbum.org/
I did it with shalbum and no problem.
suomi
On 2014-02-12 15:47, Alex wrote:
Hi,
I'm interested in setting up an online photo album. I've used Gallery
in the past, but wondered if anyone had any other recommendations that
would work well with Fedora?
A PHP or perl based
Hi, I have v20 on a USB drive and want to install on a new machine with no OS
currently in place.
When I boot, the Fedora install page comes up but then goes into "Starting
Dracut Emergency Shell" after the "Warning: Can't mount root filesystem"
What now?
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 02:40:05 +1030
Leo Simmonds wrote:
Can't mount root filesystem" What now?
>
https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/02/04/more-on-booting-a-practical-fedora-uefi-guide-and-dont-use-universal-usb-stick-writers/
___
Regards
Frank
frankly3d.
I would just tell her to backup all her data that she wants saved to an
external device.then do a clean install of Ubuntu...and then she can
transfer her data back. ditch WinXP altogether.makes for an easier
time when its time to support it remotely.
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F
a friend asks me if there's a way to solve the following, not out of
any sense of urgency (since there are backups) but more out of a sense
of curiosity as to whether it can even be done.
long story short, a 750G drive which *used* to be the primary drive
in a laptop was replaced with a newer
Maybe try downloading the F20 installer again?...did you use Unetbootin to
get the files on the USB?
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From: "Leo Simmonds"
To: "users@lists.fedoraproject.org"
Subject: New Install
Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2014 11:10 am
Hi, I have v20 on a USB drive and want to install
Try the poorly-named "testdisk" to see if it can get any of the old
partition information. I've had good luck with recovering
accidentally-partitioned disks.
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day
wrote:
>
> a friend asks me if there's a way to solve the following, not out of
> any
On 02/12/2014 06:29 AM, Jan Kowalsky wrote:
Hi all,
this is my first post on the list. I'm using 389ds inside a kolab
environment. We are going to migrate to the new kolab version which
runs now 389ds. At the moment we are testing different scenarios for
replication. I don't have much experie
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:10:19 +0100,
Robert Dady wrote:
The thing is that circumvention is also possible by disabling direct proxy
script download and set direct internet access, in that case there is no
need set up service-subdomain multiplexing.
Doing this might get you fired. is it rea
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:09:13 -0600,
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:10:19 +0100,
Robert Dady wrote:
The thing is that circumvention is also possible by disabling direct proxy
script download and set direct internet access, in that case there is no
need set up service-s
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, murph wrote:
> Try the poorly-named "testdisk" to see if it can get any of the old
> partition information. I've had good luck with recovering
> accidentally-partitioned disks.
so far, basic usage of "testdisk" is showing me just the two small
partitions at the front of th
One option to consider would be the tools from runtime.org.
They have been working on Linux oriented tools, though I've purchased and
extensively used the window-related tools with stellar success.
>
> From: Robert P. J. Day
>To: Fedora Users List
>Sent: Wedne
On Feb 12, 2014 9:37 AM, "eoconno...@gmail.com"
wrote:
>
> I would just tell her to backup all her data that she wants saved to an
external device.then do a clean install of Ubuntu...and then she can
transfer her data back. ditch WinXP altogether.makes for an easier
time when its time
> A friend who is not computer literate at all has a Dell 1520 laptop which when
> new, Dell required it have xp installed. I insisted at the time that the hd
> have
> 2 partitions as I intended to install either Fedora or Ubuntu but that was
> years ago and I had forgotten all about it till today
On Feb 12, 2014, at 3:34 AM, Roger wrote:
> I understand how to get linux to clean install on the second partition and I
> think I remember about how to use it's own boot record not the MBR but have
> no idea how she would access linux with windows on the first partition.
If she installs Fedo
On Feb 12, 2014, at 11:14 AM, "Powell, Michael"
wrote:
> Why did you insist that a computer illiterate person dual boot? One OS is
> enough to deal with, why would you trouble her with two?
I agree.
> Continue updating Windows XP via Windows Update until everything has been
> installed, and
On 02/12/2014 09:09 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:10:19 +0100,
Robert Dady wrote:
The thing is that circumvention is also possible by disabling direct
proxy
script download and set direct internet access, in that case there is no
need set up service-subdomain multiple
On 10 Feb 2014 03:20, "Gregory P. Ennis" wrote:
> Some of the perl scripts worked fine, but one script would not activate
> and resulted in a command line error message of :
>
> (": No such file or directory)
>
> I added the parenthesis, but the initial single quote is part of the
> message. I h
Ok guys I see, point taken. :) and you are absolutely right!
I was blinded by my enthusiasm, I didn't count with the non-technical
part at all.
On 12/02/2014, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/12/2014 09:09 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:10:19 +0100,
>>Robert Dady wrote:
>>>
hello pekka,
On 02/12/2014 08:59 AM, Pekka Savola wrote:
Hello,
I've two systems running F20 + updates-testing, a T400 laptop and a
desktop PC. PC was upgraded with yum from F18, laptop was a fresh
install. Both experience the same problems, at least for roughly two
weeks now, maybe longer (no
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, murph wrote:
> Try the poorly-named "testdisk" to see if it can get any of the old
> partition information. I've had good luck with recovering
> accidentally-partitioned disks.
while the documentation suggests this utility can handle LVM, i
finished a scan earlier and, bas
> After inactivity timeout, you need to swipe the screen or use keyboard
> to reactivate it (I've disabled screen locking). The problem that
> often occurs is that mouse movement works, but clicking doesn't do
> anything. Similarly keyboard is unresponsibe. The clock has been
> frozen to the inacti
On Feb 12, 2014, at 9:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>
> /dev/vg1/home /opt/home ext4defaults1 2
>
> so that (obviously) what used to be the "home" logical volume in the
> old "vg1" volume group appeared under /opt/home, and was available for
> the occasional restoration of
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Chris Murphy wrote:
>
> On Feb 12, 2014, at 9:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >
> > /dev/vg1/home /opt/home ext4defaults1 2
> >
> > so that (obviously) what used to be the "home" logical volume in the
> > old "vg1" volume group appeared under /opt/home,
Hello,
Thanks for ideas; I'll need to check at least reverting to updates and
checking the input source and report back tomorrow.
Combining replies:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, g wrote:
After inactivity timeout, you need to swipe the screen or use keyboard
to reactivate it (I've disabled screen l
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, murph wrote:
> Try the poorly-named "testdisk" to see if it can get any of the old
> partition information. I've had good luck with recovering
> accidentally-partitioned disks.
so here's the current output from that utility after it finished a
lengthy scan of the (corrupte
YesI'm sorry but the original poster mentioned UbuntupersonallyI
would install Fedorabut I'm just giving feedback.sorry!
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From: "Pete Travis"
To: "Community support for Fedora users"
Subject: Installing Linux on a windows hd
Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2014 1
By chance does she live somewhere with a local linux users group or
computer club?
Where I live there is a local community center where people can bring their
computer once a month and have their problems sorted.
Maybe have a hunt around and see if there is something similar?
Goodluck,
William
On 1
On Feb 12, 2014, at 1:08 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> it was 2G that was overwritten, not just 2M. so i'm quite willing to
> believe that it's unrecoverable. but that "testdisk" utility claims to
> be finding *something*, so i'll just let it finish and post what it
> reports.
Ok well the P
On Feb 12, 2014, at 1:42 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, murph wrote:
>
>> Try the poorly-named "testdisk" to see if it can get any of the old
>> partition information. I've had good luck with recovering
>> accidentally-partitioned disks.
>
> so here's the current output f
On 2/12/2014 2:34 AM, Roger wrote:
Dell 1520 laptop which when new, Dell required it have xp installed.
As many have said windows xp eol is taking place in two months,
and the laptop probably may require more ram to be added
so it can be upgraded to either windows 7 or windows 8
greetings roger and tim.
On 02/12/2014 02:40 PM, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 12 February 2014, Roger sent:
A friend who is not computer literate at all has a Dell 1520 laptop
which when new, Dell required it have xp installed.
As has already been said, XP support dies very soon. It's
The very old APC 900VA unit I had under my desk died over the weekend. I
replaced it with an Cyber Power System, Inc. CP1500, $99 from Amazon
with free shipping.
Anyhow, the front display shows the power drawn by the stuff plugged
into it, currently computer and monitor. Typically, they're drawin
On 02/12/2014 10:28 PM, Edward M wrote:
On 2/12/2014 2:34 AM, Roger wrote:
Dell 1520 laptop which when new, Dell required it have xp installed.
As many have said windows xp eol is taking place in two months, and
the laptop probably may require more ram to be added so it can be
upgraded to ei
I know your pain. But a clean Linux install shouldn't take that long.
Only an update-install, which is based on what was previously
> installed (and has to churn through assessing it and all the updates
> that will be needed), should take that long to run.
agreed. centos with a default instal
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Stephen Davies wrote:
> I think I need to start with force reloading of the original Python setup.
>
> Could you please advise on how to do this.
It will be a lot easier if you have another Fedora system or virtual
machine with a working yum. If you don't, you'll
Sounds good to me.
I do have another box with a properly working Fedora 20.
I shall use that as you suggest.
(I shall update this box to 20 as soon as the rest is sorted.)
Thank you very much again for your help.
Cheers,
Stephen
On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 07:08:50 PM T.C. Hollingsworth wro
I used LiveUSB, I've now tried the Unetbootin and that doesnt work either, as
comes up with a different error, saying BOOTMGR is missing...
To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
From: eoconno...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: New Install
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:42:19 -0500
Maybe try downloading the F20
On 02/13/2014 02:05 AM, Roger wrote:
I know your pain. But a clean Linux install shouldn't take that
long. Only an update-install, which is based on what was
previously installed (and has to churn through assessing it and
all the updates that will be needed), should take that long to
run.
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:05:47 +1030
Leo Simmonds wrote:
> I used LiveUSB, I've now tried the Unetbootin and that doesnt work
> either, as comes up with a different error, saying BOOTMGR is
> missing...
>
use dd /iso to /usb/disk method.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_U
On 2/12/2014 4:55 PM, g wrote:
it is a good suggestion, but installing linux and keeping xp for
games, etc and never putting it back on internet is also a better
choice over upgrading
until one those games or apps require an update or windows itself
to continue working properly;-)
--
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On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 23:28:29 -0800
Edward Mart wrote:
> On 2/12/2014 4:55 PM, g wrote:
> > it is a good suggestion, but installing linux and keeping xp for
> > games, etc and never putting it back on internet is also a better
> > choice over upgrading
>
> until one those games or apps requ
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