Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-23 Thread Tim
Tom Horsley: >> My consistent experience is that systemd has no clue when >> the network is "up" if by up you mean actually capable of >> talking to other things on the network. Thus all of the >> dependencies it waits on never wait long enough. Tim: > There was a thread about that, last year, I t

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
I have to say I find this disucssion interesting I have spent what amounts to a small fortune (for me!) making sure that when I upgrade from one version of LINUX to another (initially slackware but so far fedora 9 - 20) that I can minimise the risk of (anaconda or whatever the current insta

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
This poroblem occurs on other unices as well, try using the bg option in your nfs fstab entry. Andy On Sunday 22 February 2015 21:39:13 Pete Travis wrote: > On Feb 22, 2015 1:01 AM, "Jens Neu" wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > maybe since 2 weeks (close to upgrade to Twenty_One), my nfs shares are >

Converting server to workstation

2015-02-23 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, Is there some simple way to convert fedora-server to fedora-workstation ? Thanks in advance, Paul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http:/

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Monday 23 February 2015 09:10:24 Andrew R Paterson wrote: > I have to say I find this disucssion interesting > I have spent what amounts to a small fortune (for me!) making sure that when > I upgrade from one version of LINUX to another (initially slackware but so > far fedora 9 - 20) that

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Wade Hampton
[snip] This was a good thread and is tied in with my experience this weekend. I had a very old laptop with F13 that had not been booted in years. I tried to load F21 on it using the same partitions (and keeping the old Windows partitions). Anaconda more or less let me try but gave me a warning a

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-23 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 09:17 +, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > This poroblem occurs on other unices as well, try using the bg option > in your nfs fstab entry. Putting fstab entries in is really only useful for what I consider to be permanently available shares (or drives, if we're not talking abou

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread poma
On 23.02.2015 01:19, Alex Regan wrote: > Hi, > > On 02/22/2015 06:43 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: >>> On 22.02.2015, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> Windows, OS X installers have maybe 2-3 total layouts between them. And their installers are com

BackupPc install

2015-02-23 Thread Tony Molloy
Hi, I've just installed BackupPC on my home server from the Fedora repos ( Fedora 21 ). It doesn't seem to have installed a systemd service file. So the question is how do I start BackupPC. I have it installed on CentOS 6 at work so configuration shouldn't be a proble. I know I've missed som

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread poma
Ohh, can someone help? I would like to install a coffee grinder, multi boot with Fedora if possible? Coffee Coffee Coffee http://goo.gl/7nPcsB -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/user

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread poma
On 22.02.2015 23:55, Matthew Miller wrote: ... > * I mean, literally: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Vision_statement > People write all kinds of stuff on the walls, Miller. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedora

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread poma
On 23.02.2015 08:44, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 15:01 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: >> What you're talking about might be in-scope for blivet-gui. It >> definitely sounds out of scope for a GUI OS installer. >> >> Windows, OS X installers have maybe 2-3 total layouts between them. >> And the

Re: Network printer out of ink weirdness

2015-02-23 Thread poma
On 22.02.2015 22:17, Jim Lewis wrote: ... > What did I miss? I did not do anything to the printer during this time. > WLAN & AP devices are? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/user

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 02/22/2015 01:31 PM, jd1008 wrote: Seems like the Anaconda UI could provide much clearer explanations of available choices, and the consequenes of those choices (i.e. their impact on the drives/partitions that are VISIBLE to Anaconda). Does it even make sense to Anaconda to worry about creat

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Rick Stevens
On 02/23/2015 10:01 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 02/22/2015 01:31 PM, jd1008 wrote: Seems like the Anaconda UI could provide much clearer explanations of available choices, and the consequenes of those choices (i.e. their impact on the drives/partitions that are VISIBLE to Anaconda). Does it even

Re: Converting server to workstation

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:34 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > Is there some simple way to convert > > fedora-server > > to > > fedora-workstation ? Check the thread on Fedora test@ (see archives if you're not subscribed), "Convert nonproduct to productX" which is somewhat related. The gist i

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread jd1008
On 02/23/2015 11:01 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 02/22/2015 01:31 PM, jd1008 wrote: Seems like the Anaconda UI could provide much clearer explanations of available choices, and the consequenes of those choices (i.e. their impact on the drives/partitions that are VISIBLE to Anaconda). Does it eve

Re: Network printer out of ink weirdness

2015-02-23 Thread Jim Lewis
> On 22.02.2015 22:17, Jim Lewis wrote: > ... >> What did I miss? I did not do anything to the printer during this time. >> > > WLAN & AP devices are? > I'm using the 5G side of my new Netgear R6200v2 router. I'm on Time Warner in Oahu using an Arris Surfboard SB6183 modem. No special configu

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > In my experience, anaconda is the #1 point, many people (ordinary users and > power users) are complaining about when getting in contact with Fedora and > is the #1 reason why they are shying away from installing Fedora (When > talking to n

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:44 AM, Tim wrote: > While I don't find it hard to believe that Windows developers won't > complain. After all, just about all Windows users do is install Windows > as a new install, or over the top of a previous one, with no intention > of doing anything like dual-boot.

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:10 AM, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > I have to say I find this disucssion interesting > I have spent what amounts to a small fortune (for me!) making sure that when I > upgrade from one version of LINUX to another (initially slackware but so far > fedora 9 - 20) that I

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Wade Hampton wrote: > [snip] > > This was a good thread and is tied in with my experience > this weekend. I had a very old laptop with F13 that had not > been booted in years. I tried to load F21 on it using the > same partitions (and keeping the old Windows part

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 23, 2015 1:26 PM, "Chris Murphy" wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > In my experience, anaconda is the #1 point, many people (ordinary users and > > power users) are complaining about when getting in contact with Fedora and > > is the #1 reason why they a

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/23/2015 12:56 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: If you really want partitions, why aren't you doing this with gparted then? What's the problem with that workflow? Why do you need it integrated in Anaconda? One of the constraints on what anaconda can do comes from space limitations, especially on t

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > To delete and existing /opt or /home requires explicit user > intervention for this to happen. It doesn't happen by itself. You have > to a.) click the mount point, b.) click the minus (-) button to > indicate you want it removed, and c.) the

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/23/2015 01:03 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: And you have backups right? Because by definition it's not important unless you have backups. First, I'd like to point out that just because the installer isn't supposed to modify your partitions without your explicitly selecting them doesn't mean t

Re: Network printer out of ink weirdness

2015-02-23 Thread poma
On 23.02.2015 21:25, Jim Lewis wrote: > >> On 22.02.2015 22:17, Jim Lewis wrote: >> ... >>> What did I miss? I did not do anything to the printer during this time. >>> >> >> WLAN & AP devices are? >> > >I'm using the 5G side of my new Netgear R6200v2 router. I'm on Time > Warner in Oahu usin

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/23/2015 01:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: I mean... fucking seriously. I'm going to go buy a bucket and a mallet. Back when I did senior tech support for an ISP, we used headsets with long cords so that we could move around during a call. I always arranged things so that I was near a pilla

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > This has been a discussion for quite a while over on the devel list (the > shortcomings/obfuscation in anaconda). I'd highly suggest that you put > in your $0.02 over there. I have for quite a while but I guess I don't > carry a lot of weigh

Re: Network printer out of ink weirdness

2015-02-23 Thread Jim Lewis
> On 23.02.2015 21:25, Jim Lewis wrote: >> >>> On 22.02.2015 22:17, Jim Lewis wrote: >>> ... What did I miss? I did not do anything to the printer during this time. >>> >>> WLAN & AP devices are? >>> >> >>I'm using the 5G side of my new Netgear R6200v2 router. I'm on Time >> Wa

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/23/2015 12:56 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> If you really want partitions, why aren't you doing this with gparted >> then? What's the problem with that workflow? Why do you need it >> integrated in Anaconda? > > > One of the constraints on w

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/23/2015 01:03 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> And you have backups right? Because by definition it's not important >> unless you have backups. > > > First, I'd like to point out that just because the installer isn't supposed > to modify your p

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Monday 23 February 2015 14:03:17 Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:10 AM, Andrew R Paterson > > wrote: > > I have to say I find this disucssion interesting > > I have spent what amounts to a small fortune (for me!) making sure that > > when I upgrade from one version of LINUX

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/23/2015 01:48 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Anaconda's supported layouts (usage of device types, and creating volume associated with mountpoints) is not any different among the various medias available. There's a slight misunderstanding here. Having two versions of anaconda, one for Live medi

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/23/2015 01:52 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: So if there's no bug citation I'm considering this in the realm of conjecture. It's a unicorn. I'd prefer to call it a Black Swan: something that shouldn't ever happen, but not quite as impossible as we think. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedor

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/23/2015 01:54 PM, Andrew R Paterson wrote: Neurotic I might be, but that's the way I do an "upgrade" because I don't trust the installer - yum upgrade - fedup or whatever its next incarnation might be! Just as a side-note: I've never had fedup fail me on my laptop or work correctly on my

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.02.2015, Pete Travis wrote: > "Because that's that I want" isn't a good way to ask for someone else's time. I didn't ask for someone else's time, but for an explanation why there is a custom mode which indeed isn't custom . I do not want somebody to implement something which fits my speci

fedora netinstall

2015-02-23 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I can read on this page: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/21/html/Installation_Guide/chap-downloading-fedora.html netinstall Image The netinstall image boots directly into the installation environment, and uses the online F

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > But maybe the problem is that not many people install/reinstall/fedup often > enough to get familiar with it. Nor should they. Therein lies a huge reason for why I think the scope is just too extreme when they either have to become fami

Fedora 20: After running yum update the Mate Terminal doesn't start anymore

2015-02-23 Thread Jim Lewis
I ran "yum update" on my Fedora 20 system a few days ago. I normally don't do this as something always breaks and in this case it was the Mate-Terminal. I already had a few terminals open so I can still use the system. Clicking on either the Terminal icon in the panel, or using Applications->Mate

Re: fedora netinstall

2015-02-23 Thread Ed Greshko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/15 06:45, François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > > I can read on this page: > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/21/html/Installation_Guide/chap-downloading-fedora.html > > > > netinstall Image > The netinstall image boots direct

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Monday 23 February 2015 15:45:26 Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Andrew R Paterson > > wrote: > > But maybe the problem is that not many people install/reinstall/fedup > > often > > enough to get familiar with it. > > Nor should they. Therein lies a huge reason for why

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 02/23/2015 01:13 PM, jd1008 wrote: I think it does make sense, because users would like to custom partition the drive(s) and live with that partitioning scheme for many years. So, all such options should be made available. A responder to this thread mentioned that there should be an "expert" m

Re: What constitutes a backup, was:F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > Hang on there Chris, (new thread really) > why do you think using a mirror as a backup is a bad idea? I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I'm just denying it's a backup. What you have is a degraded array on the shelf that's at best an incide

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > > What is the benefit of having anaconda worry about *creating* these > partitioning schemes (for lack of a better term)? > > Wouldn't it be better to ask people to use the regular tools in a live > media environment for anything other than a v

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 02/23/2015 05:36 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Right. And I'm still waiting to hear, what ought to be much easier than answering your questions, examples of what layout the installer won't let them create; or won't use once precreated elsewhere. Fair enough. For the record, I don't think it does

Re: Replacing Fedora Postgresql with non-Fedora version?

2015-02-23 Thread Stuart McGraw
On 02/22/2015 12:40 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 09:35:54 -0700, Stuart McGraw wrote: I have Postgresql-9.3 installed from the Fedora 21 yum repo in order to satisfy any packages that need postgresql. But I need to run Postgresql-9.4 so I disabled the yum postgresql

Re: Replacing Fedora Postgresql with non-Fedora version?

2015-02-23 Thread Stuart McGraw
On 02/22/2015 11:18 AM, jd1008 wrote: [...] I have Postgresql-9.3 installed from the Fedora 21 yum repo in order to satisfy any packages that need postgresql. But I need to run Postgresql-9.4 so I disabled the yum postgresql startup via systemd and installed the EDB version of 9.4 into /opt/