On 2020-10-20 22:09, Tim via users wrote:
MediaWriter is used to create your installation media from the ISO file
that you've downloaded.
In a lot of cases, you can use the "dd" tool in the command line to
datadump the ISO file onto a USB flashdrive, and boot up the installer
from that flash d
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 6:29 AM Bob Goodwin wrote:
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>
> On 2020-10-20 22:09, Tim via users wrote:
> > MediaWriter is used to create your installation media from the ISO file
> > that you've downloaded.
> >
> > In a lot of cases, you can use the "dd" tool in the command line to
> > datadump the I
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 17:52, ToddAndMargo via users <
users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 2020-10-20 03:32, George N. White III wrote:
> > Does your BIOS have parallel port configuration?
>
> No
>
You may need something to "wake-up" the VT8231 (hopefully in a way that
enables the parallel
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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
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
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 9:04 AM Bob Goodwin wrote:
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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.
>
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
I just noticed an error with:
>sudo dnf upgrade
Error: Loading repository 'updates-modular' has failed
I just started the update without error by doing:
>sudo dnf upgrade --disablerepo=updates-modular
I *think* that is a safe option but maybe I don't understand the modular stuff
well enough, s
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020, at 8:59 AM, Doug H. wrote:
> I just noticed an error with:
>
> >sudo dnf upgrade
> Error: Loading repository 'updates-modular' has failed
>
> I just started the update without error by doing:
>
> >sudo dnf upgrade --disablerepo=updates-modular
>
> I *think* that is a safe
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020, at 9:54 AM, Doug H. wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020, at 8:59 AM, Doug H. wrote:
> > I just noticed an error with:
> >
> > >sudo dnf upgrade
> > Error: Loading repository 'updates-modular' has failed
> >
> > I just started the update without error by doing:
> >
> > >sudo dnf u
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
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
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
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 2:35 PM Bob Goodwin wrote:
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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 "d
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
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
On 10/19/20 10:35 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Mon, 2020-10-19 at 12:05 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:25:20 +0100
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
If I'm running qBittorrent and try to log out with Ctrl-Alt-Del, or by
using the DE's menu, I get this message.
I'd immediately
Normally, I write a weekly contribution to an APA,a sort of newsletter,
on my desktop, and do the page layout in Scribus, using some of the
Nimbus fonts. Right now, my desktop is in the shop with a dead power
supply, and I'm using my laptop. Alas, it doesn't have the Nimbus
fonts. What is th
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 02:38:32PM -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Normally, I write a weekly contribution to an APA,a sort of
> newsletter, on my desktop, and do the page layout in Scribus, using
> some of the Nimbus fonts. Right now, my desktop is in the shop with
> a dead power supply, and I'm using m
On 10/21/20 2:50 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
I find the easiest way to deal with fonts is as user data rather than system
packages. Drop ttf or otf files into ~/local/share/fonts and there you go.
Thank you for answering a question I didn't ask. I don't have the
files, I need to install them fr
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 2:39 PM Joe Zeff wrote:
> Normally, I write a weekly contribution to an APA,a sort of newsletter,
> on my desktop, and do the page layout in Scribus, using some of the
> Nimbus fonts. Right now, my desktop is in the shop with a dead power
> supply, and I'm using my laptop.
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 03:02:49PM -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Thank you for answering a question I didn't ask. I don't have the
> files, I need to install them from rpms, and don't know how to get
> dnf to do that. If you know, tell me; if you don't, don't waste my
> time.
I'm sharing knowledge th
+1
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 17:20, Matthew Miller
wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 03:02:49PM -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> > Thank you for answering a question I didn't ask. I don't have the
> > files, I need to install them from rpms, and don't know how to get
> > dnf to do that. If you know, tell
On 10/21/20 3:03 PM, Jerry James wrote:
sudo dnf install 'font(nimbusroman)'
If you want the sans fonts, then:
sudo dnf install 'font(nimbussans)'
And if I want to install the whole family? I'm not sure which ones I'll
need, and don't want to have to stop and install more in the middle of
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 4:06 PM Joe Zeff wrote:
> And if I want to install the whole family? I'm not sure which ones I'll
> need, and don't want to have to stop and install more in the middle of
> the job.
sudo dnf install 'font(nimbusroman)' 'font(nimbussans)' 'font(nimbusmonops)'
As far as I
On 10/21/20 4:10 PM, Jerry James wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 4:06 PM Joe Zeff wrote:
And if I want to install the whole family? I'm not sure which ones I'll
need, and don't want to have to stop and install more in the middle of
the job.
sudo dnf install 'font(nimbusroman)' 'font(nimbussan
On 10/21/20 4:10 PM, Jerry James wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 4:06 PM Joe Zeff wrote:
And if I want to install the whole family? I'm not sure which ones I'll
need, and don't want to have to stop and install more in the middle of
the job.
sudo dnf install 'font(nimbusroman)' 'font(nimbussan
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
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
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
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
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
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 try to write back data to the device and by that action
corrupting the fr
Theoretically any transfer protocol based on TCP should be safe, not just nfs,
but smb or wget also.
Only possibility to screw things up is latency; like with transatlantic /
satellite connections.
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