Re: merging unused partitions

2022-05-22 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 5/22/2022 6:02 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: Courtsey of Anaconda, I have 4 contiguous unused partitions. I would like to merge them into a single partition. AFAIK this is the procedure I should follow. backup Boot to single-user use parted rm partitions 2 3 4 resizepart partiti

Re: merging unused partitions

2022-05-22 Thread Bill Cunningham
Oh yes and don't forget to run partprobe after changing the partition size. Cheers. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedora

rpm erase or removal of rpms

2022-05-23 Thread Bill Cunningham
        I have been trying to use rpm or dnf to remove some rpms. Most the ones I am concerned with are docker related, and or to do with go (golang). You certainly can't use wildcards with rpm erase. I have a list generated with the date these rpms were installed, but I am not THAT good with C

Re: rpm erase or removal of rpms

2022-05-23 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 5/23/2022 5:22 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: rpm -e $(cat list) On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 4:02 PM Bill Cunningham wrote:     I have been trying to use rpm or dnf to remove some rpms. Most the ones I am concerned with are docker related, and or to do with go (golang). You certainly

Re: rpm erase or removal of rpms

2022-05-23 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 5/23/2022 5:12 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: Write your list so that all the packages are on a single line, and just add rpm -e to the head of that line: rpm -e foo bar baz Or: for i in `cat list`; do rpm -e $i     I see, thanks much Thomas, so this would then be kind of doing the work o

Re: rpm erase or removal of rpms

2022-05-24 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 5/24/2022 6:26 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 5/24/2022 6:23 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 5/24/2022 5:28 PM, Barry wrote: On 23 May 2022, at 23:03, Todd Zullinger wrote: Hi, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have been trying to use rpm or dnf to remove some rpms. I'd use dnf.  It pro

ffmpeg

2022-06-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
Does anyone used or has anyone used ffmpeg to convert iso to mp4? I have looked at the documents and they explain how to do everything but what I want to do, so it seems. I do use CLI. That is the only command I know that converts from CLI. ___ users

Re: ffmpeg

2022-06-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
There must be some missing libraries or something. Can I ask dnf to look for this? I have all rpms that mention being used with ffmpeg installed. I guess I could post errors posted if that would help. If no one has any idea what is wrong. ___ users mai

Re: ffmpeg

2022-06-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/20/2022 5:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/20/22 14:40, Bill Cunningham wrote: There must be some missing libraries or something. Can I ask dnf to look for this? I have all rpms that mention being used with ffmpeg installed. I guess I could post errors posted if that would help. If no one

Re: ffmpeg

2022-06-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/20/2022 6:52 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/20/22 15:13, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 6/20/2022 5:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/20/22 14:40, Bill Cunningham wrote: There must be some missing libraries or something. Can I ask dnf to look for this? I have all rpms that mention being used with

Re: ffmpeg

2022-06-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
ok Sorry it says "re.iso: UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) 'CDROM'". OK here is a copy of the output. I was evidently doing something wrong there with the ampersand, ffmpeg version 5.0.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 12 (GCC) configuration: --prefix=/usr --bin

Re: ffmpeg

2022-06-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/20/2022 6:19 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 20Jun2022 16:02, Bill Cunningham wrote: Does anyone used or has anyone used ffmpeg to convert iso to mp4? I have looked at the documents and they explain how to do everything but what I want to do, so it seems. I do use CLI. That is the only

Re: ffmpeg

2022-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/21/2022 1:28 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 6/21/2022 3:07 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/20/22 20:19, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2022-06-20 at 18:37 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: It is a dvd image from genisoimage using the -dvd-video switch. Is this a disk that has worked before

ffmpeg

2022-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
    Does this show anything? And, I did try webm and it worked fine. IDK which is the smaller file, webm or mp4. I usually watch this stuff with vlc on windows or an OS using vlc. I tried ffmpeg -formats mp4 -i re.iso re.mp4, ffmpeg version 5.0.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers  

Re: ffmpeg

2022-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/21/2022 6:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/21/22 15:15, Bill Cunningham wrote: Does this show anything? And, I did try webm and it worked fine. IDK which is the smaller file, webm or mp4. I usually watch this stuff with vlc on windows or an OS using vlc. I tried ffmpeg -formats mp4

Re: ffmpeg

2022-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/21/2022 6:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/21/22 15:15, Bill Cunningham wrote: Does this show anything? And, I did try webm and it worked fine. IDK which is the smaller file, webm or mp4. I usually watch this stuff with vlc on windows or an OS using vlc. I tried ffmpeg -formats mp4

Re: ffmpeg

2022-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/21/2022 6:58 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/21/22 15:55, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 6/21/2022 6:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/21/22 15:15, Bill Cunningham wrote: Does this show anything? And, I did try webm and it worked fine. IDK which is the smaller file, webm or mp4. I usually

using e2fsck and un mounting

2022-06-27 Thread Bill Cunningham
    How do you mount fedora 36 so you can use e2fsck? I seem to have a lot of filesystem problems, but no way to mount even with the network installation USB. Booting creates errors in the system services. I was mounted ro and was able to use umount -o,remount,rw /dev/sda3 / and remounted rw

Re: using e2fsck and un mounting

2022-06-27 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/27/2022 8:57 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/27/22 17:37, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 6/27/2022 8:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Did you mean to send this off-list? On 6/27/22 17:01, Bill Cunningham wrote: ext2, yes version 2 I use, was mounted RO at a later point, SO I used mount -o remount,rw

Re: using e2fsck and un mounting

2022-06-29 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/29/2022 1:54 AM, Tim via users wrote: Samuel Sieb: The journal has nothing to do with memory management. It's about filesystem protection. btrfs would also be better because it is always "journaled" (not exactly, but fairly equivalent). Bill Cunningham: I thought it

opinions: backups

2022-08-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
    I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people use. I have thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK if that would be good for modern use or not. My system isn't really that big. My allotted size is 30 Gig, and it's not full. There's dar and xar and fsarchiver. There

Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-16 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 8/16/2022 5:24 PM, Barry Scott wrote: On 16 Aug 2022, at 19:27, Neal Becker wrote: I use borg and am very happy with it.  As Chris, I only backup /home, everything else is replaceable.  Oh, I occasionally make a backup of /etc also. I back /home and /etc because if I missed a config

backup tips: dump/restore

2022-09-16 Thread Bill Cunningham
    Hello all, Some time back I asked for opinions on backups. I had a lot of good opinions. I tried to backup some directories with dump. Which seemed to me to be quick and for what I was altogether looking for, for ext 2/3, pretty good. A 16GB filesystem was copied to a level 0 dump at aroun

Re: backup tips: dump/restore

2022-09-16 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/16/2022 5:40 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 17:07 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: As far at the partition's bootsector, would that happen to be in the dump file? And I am pretty sure partition table entries or any of the MBR are not saved. dump operates on f

Re: backup tips: dump/restore

2022-09-16 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/16/2022 6:34 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 9/16/2022 5:40 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 17:07 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: As far at the partition's bootsector, would that happen to be in the dump file? And I am pretty sure partition table entries or

ext2(3) question(s)

2022-10-02 Thread Bill Cunningham
    I wanted to ask all who might be interested too, and know the answers to this, first, in short, /dev/zram0 my system says is a swap file. It's really no big deal, but I would rather not have one. I see the old 'mkswap' command is gone, I look at the filesystem and see no visible swap. Is

Re: ext2(3) question(s)

2022-10-02 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 10/2/2022 5:38 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 04:52:24PM -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote:     I wanted to ask all who might be interested too, and know the answers to this, first, in short, ...     And also what comes goes, my system went down and no worries. But I did try

Re: ext2(3) question(s)

2022-10-02 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 10/2/2022 6:19 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 10/2/22 13:52, Bill Cunningham wrote: I wanted to ask all who might be interested too, and know the answers to this, first, in short, /dev/zram0 my system says is a swap file. It's really no big deal, but I would rather not have one.

system calls

2022-10-03 Thread Bill Cunningham
    Have system call libraries been removed? I can't find socket.h there is no 'man 8 socket' no 'man pipe' no pipe() and no socket(). no 'man 3 socket'. Am I missing something? Glibc is there. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org T

Re: system calls

2022-10-03 Thread Bill Cunningham
t've pulled the headers in. I usually don't have to install this. Thanks. On 10/3/2022 5:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 10/3/22 14:11, Bill Cunningham wrote: Have system call libraries been removed? I can't find socket.h there is no 'man 8 socket' no 'man pipe' n

booting with test_fs set

2022-10-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
IDK why my system seems to hang when I set the test_fs option. tune2fs -E test_fs /dev/sda3 'exactly what I type' and reboot. Do I have a dirty system? e2fsck -yvf on an umounted partition seems to work. This system btw, was replaced by clonezilla. I needed to resize partitions and simply re

Re: booting with test_fs set

2022-10-16 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 10/16/2022 2:21 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 10/15/22 14:33, Bill Cunningham wrote: IDK why my system seems to hang when I set the test_fs option. tune2fs -E test_fs /dev/sda3 'exactly what I type' and reboot. Why are you setting that?  That's a special d

Re: booting with test_fs set

2022-10-17 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 10/17/2022 6:09 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2022-10-17 at 13:43 +1030, Tim via users wrote: Leave a completely blank line between quotes and reply, do not type immediately below quotes (like I've done, above).  Various email clients re-wrapping functions make a mess of separating

X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-17 Thread Bill Cunningham
    I have looked until exhausted. This cli boot I have I have group installed Basic Desktop, Xfce Desktop and startx will not boot anything. I believed it was a "good ole" systemd thing, but systemctl afaik seems not to behind this. I know wayland has replaced X but there was X libraries sill

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 10/18/2022 1:05 AM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 10/17/22 21:09, Bill Cunningham wrote:     I have looked until exhausted. This cli boot I have I have group installed Basic Desktop, Xfce Desktop and startx will not boot anything. I believed it was a "good ole" systemd

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 10/18/2022 1:15 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2022-10-17 at 21:09 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have looked until exhausted. This cli boot I have I have group installed Basic Desktop, Xfce Desktop and startx will not boot anything. I believed it was a "good ole" sys

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 10/18/2022 11:29 AM, stan via users wrote: On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 21:09:15 -0400 Bill Cunningham wrote:     I have looked until exhausted. This cli boot I have I have group installed Basic Desktop, Xfce Desktop and startx will not boot anything. I believed it was a "good ole" sys

F37 in Beta?

2022-11-19 Thread Bill Cunningham
I noticed that the "beta" label was taken off of the latest fedora 37 release. I use rufus to create a fedora server net install and usually I can create an ISO with it and all is fine. But it seems, when in beta, I have to use 'dd' version to copy bit for bit to the USB to repair or net instal

Re: F37 in Beta?

2022-11-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 11/19/2022 10:47 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/19/22 19:38, Bill Cunningham wrote: Previously it wasn't GRUB that was used for booting BIOS installs.  Now it is. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BIOSBootISOWithGrub2 Also, this might be relevant: https://fedoraproject.org

F37 workstation live

2022-11-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
    Hum. I believe this has to do with the new grub policy. I used rufus's dd option to copy the live workstation iso to a USB. When I boot from this, I get the grub rescue mode. There is the 'grub>' prompt. I must be really over looking something here. The same happens if I am in fedora and us

Re: F37 workstation live

2022-11-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 11/20/2022 7:14 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 18:59:41 -0500 Bill Cunningham wrote: What should I be doing here? The innards of the iso image were different from f36. I can boot the .iso file itself directly from a grub2 entry with a little work. I've got a directory

Fwd: F37 workstation live

2022-11-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
Forwarded Message Subject:Re: F37 workstation live Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 19:45:18 -0500 From: Bill Cunningham To: Tom Horsley On 11/20/2022 7:14 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 18:59:41 -0500 Bill Cunningham wrote: What should I be doing

Re: F37 workstation live

2022-11-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 11/20/2022 8:06 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 19:45:18 -0500 Bill Cunningham wrote: Is there anything that can quickly be entered into the grub2 CLI to boot from? Probably if you're a grub2 expert, but I'm not I'm afraid :-). Nor am I. I myself favored sysl

vlc and mp4 or mkv

2022-12-03 Thread Bill Cunningham
idk if anyone is having this problem or not, but creating a mp4 or mpg using vlc seems to be impossible. I have been trying with windows and IDK if that makes a difference but I also have the f37 live workstation environment. I can decrypt a dvd, copy and watch a dvd, and even create an iso usi

Re: vlc and mp4 or mkv

2022-12-03 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/3/2022 5:19 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 16:49 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: But I try to save movies/videos as an iso or if there is no special feature a much smaller mpeg. I've no idea if this fits your needs, but I always use mkvmerge (from the

Re: vlc and mp4 or mkv

2022-12-03 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/3/2022 5:19 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 16:49 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: But I try to save movies/videos as an iso or if there is no special feature a much smaller mpeg. I've no idea if this fits your needs, but I always use mkvmerge (from the

Re: vlc and mp4 or mkv

2022-12-03 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/3/2022 5:47 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 17:38 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 12/3/2022 5:19 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 16:49 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: But I try to save movies/videos as an iso or if there is no special

Re: vlc and mp4 or mkv

2022-12-04 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/4/2022 8:00 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 18:40 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 12/3/2022 5:47 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 17:38 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 12/3/2022 5:19 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2022

Re: vlc and mp4 or mkv

2022-12-04 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/4/2022 5:06 AM, Barry wrote: On 4 Dec 2022, at 03:07, Bill C wrote:  Not for me for some reason. IDK about codecs or what but there's errors. There is a user guide to ffmpeg that you might find interesting. https://img.ly/blog/ultimate-guide-to-ffmpeg/ Barry Thanks much I will l

libnvidvia

2022-12-06 Thread Bill Cunningham
    I have the hand brake cli installed in my f37 distro environment. It complains it wants libnvidia-encoder.so1 library or such. I have tried dnf provides and I get nothing from the standard fedora 37 repo as well as rpmfusion's free repo. This must be required in creating a mv4 from an ISO f

Re: dump/restore?

2022-12-11 Thread Bill Cunningham
I love dump/restore. Old fashioned maybe. But you have to use dnf to install dump. Restore should already be there. IDK about its status with fedora. On 12/11/2022 8:22 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Has dump/restore been superseded with something else? It ain't work right! dump restores

genisoimage source

2022-12-11 Thread Bill Cunningham
Is there a rep for non developers of the source fro the fedora version of genioimage. I checked and genisoimage is an rpm of its' own. But where is its' source? I don't mean the official maintainers of the genisoimage project, but the fedora 37 version of genisoimage. I checked src.fedoraprojec

Re: genisoimage source

2022-12-11 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/11/2022 4:07 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: rpm -q -i genisoimage Will print the name of the source rpm (if you look close :-). Sometime the source rpm name is radically different than the binary of one bit of it. Then you should be able to dnf download --source source-rpm-name neither '--sou

Re: genisoimage source

2022-12-11 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/11/2022 5:03 PM, Barry Scott wrote: On 11 Dec 2022, at 21:55, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 12/11/2022 4:07 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: rpm -q -i genisoimage Will print the name of the source rpm (if you look close :-). Sometime the source rpm name is radically different than the binary of

Re: genisoimage source

2022-12-11 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/11/2022 5:03 PM, Barry Scott wrote: On 11 Dec 2022, at 21:55, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 12/11/2022 4:07 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: rpm -q -i genisoimage Will print the name of the source rpm (if you look close :-). Sometime the source rpm name is radically different than the binary of

Re: genisoimage source

2022-12-11 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/11/2022 5:03 PM, Barry Scott wrote: On 11 Dec 2022, at 21:55, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 12/11/2022 4:07 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: rpm -q -i genisoimage Will print the name of the source rpm (if you look close :-). Sometime the source rpm name is radically different than the binary of

Re: genisoimage source

2022-12-11 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/11/2022 5:03 PM, Barry Scott wrote: [...] And this is the download working: $ dnf download --source cdrkit enabling fedora-source repository enabling fedora-modular-source repository enabling updates-source repository enabling updates-modular-source repository Fedora 37 - Source

Re: genisoimage source

2022-12-11 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/11/2022 6:51 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 18:29:26 -0500 Bill Cunningham wrote: cdrkit-1.11-50.fc37.src.rpm. which is what everyone else has. How can I get this installed from a local directory, even though it's a source rpm. Others have had this question, but IDK how

Re: How do you unsparsify a qcows2 file?

2022-12-12 Thread Bill Cunningham
You might want to think about setting a size on that file. dd can be pretty destructive as well as useful. I like to randomize file with it before truncating the contents. For example, if a file is 4096 bytes, I would use, 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/file bs=4096 count=1 conv=notrunc. Just so there is

dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
IDK if you can do this or not. Say if you have a file that is 2.048 Gig and it is attached to a loopback device, say /dev/loop0, losetup /dev/loop0 FILE_NAME, And you tried cdrwtool -d /dev/loop0 -q; Now I have tried this and get errors. IDK if there's a way around this, a safety issue that i

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 4:47 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/18/22 13:40, Bill Cunningham wrote: IDK if you can do this or not. Say if you have a file that is 2.048 Gig and it is attached to a loopback device, say /dev/loop0, losetup /dev/loop0 FILE_NAME, And you tried cdrwtool -d /dev/loop0 -q; Now I

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 5:02 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 4:41 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: IDK if you can do this or not. Say if you have a file that is 2.048 Gig and it is attached to a loopback device, say /dev/loop0, losetup /dev/loop0 FILE_NAME, And you tried cdrwtool -d /dev/loop0

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 5:08 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/18/22 14:03, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 12/18/2022 4:47 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/18/22 13:40, Bill Cunningham wrote: IDK if you can do this or not. Say if you have a file that is 2.048 Gig and it is attached to a loopback device, say /dev

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 5:08 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/18/22 14:03, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 12/18/2022 4:47 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/18/22 13:40, Bill Cunningham wrote: IDK if you can do this or not. Say if you have a file that is 2.048 Gig and it is attached to a loopback device, say /dev

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 6:59 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 17:44 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: OK so how exactly do I create an "empty" ISO file? I will try to explain by example. As above say I have an "empty" vfat format. mount /dev/loop /mnt which is attached to

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 7:05 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2022-12-19 at 10:29 +1030, Tim wrote: To create a playable DVD, the files have to be put into the master image (the ISO file, in your example), in order. DVD players are very simple, and expect the first file at the start of the disc, and the

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 7:52 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 7:18 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: Too answer many people's questions here, as to what I want to accomplish; is there some way to make these huge 7 GB ISOs smaller? Converting to an mp4 would be the simple answer, but not a s

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 8:58 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 19:18 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: Too answer many people's questions here, as to what I want to accomplish; is there some way to make these huge 7 GB ISOs smaller? Are you trying to squish a double-sided DVD onto a s

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 9:09 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 8:44 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: The thing is I can't get vlc to convert a DVD a decrypted mirror image of that dvd nor an ISO created from those decrypted files. IDK what it is with vlc. I use it all the time to view. Bu

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 9:59 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 21:16 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: But I do want a dvd converted into a mp4. Or an ISO into a mp4. It seems a hard time doing it. If you did the whole disc/iso, you'd get the studio promos, the copyright warnings, the ad

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 9:38 PM, Tim via users wrote: Tim: VTS_01_0.VOB an intro or video menu for playing this video clip VTS_01.1.VOB part 1 of the main feature VTS_01.2.VOB part 2 of the main feature VTS_01.3.VOB part 3 of the main feature, etc. Go Canes: I have seen many DVDs where Title Set 1

config.h

2022-12-19 Thread Bill Cunningham
I am trying to find this config.h header in the dvdbackup source code. It's my guess it's auto generated by the configure script or a Makefile. I am wanting to gut as much of this as possible to work just for my system. I am not a developer and I am not bothering them. I don't need portability

Re: config.h

2022-12-19 Thread Bill Cunningham
Is all that is in the src directory only the source of dvdbackup? I see it wants headers in /dvdread. Am I assuming correctly that that is the /usr/include/dvdread headers? I would like to for my purpose eliminate all these build time tools. This code isn't really super big from what I am seein

directories in /usr

2022-12-27 Thread Bill Cunningham
I have found directories in /usr that are named after architectures. So something has changed; is it ok to delete these? One is "x86_64", something and one is another architecture. Are these for the system installing? They were not in f36. B ___ use

Re: directories in /usr

2022-12-27 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/27/2022 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/27/22 14:15, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have found directories in /usr that are named after architectures. So something has changed; is it ok to delete these? One is "x86_64", something and one is another architecture. Are these for

Re: directories in /usr

2022-12-27 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/27/2022 5:56 PM, Barry wrote: On 27 Dec 2022, at 22:15, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have found directories in /usr that are named after architectures. So something has changed; is it ok to delete these? One is "x86_64", something and one is another architecture. Are the

Re: directories in /usr

2022-12-27 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/27/2022 6:00 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 12/27/2022 5:56 PM, Barry wrote: On 27 Dec 2022, at 22:15, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have found directories in /usr that are named after architectures. So something has changed; is it ok to delete these? One is "x86_64", som

Re: directories in /usr

2022-12-27 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/27/2022 6:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/27/22 14:59, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 12/27/2022 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/27/22 14:15, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have found directories in /usr that are named after architectures. So something has changed; is it ok to delete these

housekeeping

2022-12-28 Thread Bill Cunningham
What files are basically safe to remove because they are caches and such? There is the invisible file .cache. And the /var/cache. The files in /tmp are these safe to delete? Are there any other files you can delete? For example if you were using rsync, what file would you not want to backup, be

Re: housekeeping

2022-12-28 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/28/2022 6:34 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:20:57 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: Just because they are a cache doesn't mean they are necessarily safe to delete while running. Most applications take care of managing their cache files. I used to try and deal with avoiding backup

Re: housekeeping

2022-12-30 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/30/2022 4:16 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Dec 30, 2022, at 13:14, Bill C wrote:  I see. Of course I meant/tmp/* Files in /tmp are automatically removed by systemd-tmpfiles on Fedora based on a schedule defined in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/bl

backup/restore

2022-12-30 Thread Bill Cunningham
In visiting the backup subject from some time ago, I have found that from most environment boots that are rescue type boots, there are two restores that seem to be available. 1. rsync, of course, and; 2. I have seen fsarchiver. Now I have never seen restore/dump in a rescue environment. So to

Re: backup/restore

2022-12-31 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/31/2022 2:38 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On 30 Dec 2022 at 17:07, Bill Cunningham wrote: Date sent: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 17:07:57 -0500 To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Bill Cunningham Subject:backup/restore Send

Re: backup/restore

2022-12-31 Thread Bill Cunningham
setting up an ssd as a rescue device does not appeal. Barry On Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 1:42 AM Barry wrote: > On 30 Dec 2022, at 22:08, Bill Cunningham wrote: > > In visiting the backup subject from some time ago, I have found that from most environment boots that are re

mingw32 directories, possible bug?

2022-12-31 Thread Bill Cunningham
I reinstalled my system and one reason was to take a look at these directories that are odd. I choose minimal install and no hypervisor checkbox. In /usr is two directories one is i686-mingw32- and another is x86_64-mingw32- or so directories. Now inside these is a directory called sys-root an

Re: mingw32 directories, possible bug?

2023-01-01 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 1/1/2023 3:55 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Sun, Jan 01, 2023 at 03:02:11PM -0500, Bill C wrote: Osinfo-db-tools and libosinfo are listed. IDK what they are for, but that is what rpm says. No other rpms listed. They're used as a dependency for some virtualization packages, but the issue i

Re: Grubby? Doesn't Load Initrd

2023-01-07 Thread Bill Cunningham
I remove rhgb too. I will even sometimes remove quiet. it doesn't do anything to my system, that I do not want done. I like to see the boot noise and if something comes up "failure" and I need my password for something. This is only usually something t do with a filesystem issue. Like e2fsck or

koji

2023-01-08 Thread Bill Cunningham
I will post this here since the test list is low traffic; I don't believe it is OT. Is koji only used for the testers? I know fedpkg is for development and there is a build system too called "Copr". I am only interested in looking into testing. So to begin this would an interested person look i

Re: koji

2023-01-08 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 1/8/2023 5:32 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/8/23 14:20, Bill Cunningham wrote: I will post this here since the test list is low traffic; I don't believe it is OT. Is koji only used for the testers? I know fedpkg is for development and there is a build system too called "Copr&qu

Re: koji

2023-01-09 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 1/9/2023 3:53 AM, Barry wrote: On 8 Jan 2023, at 23:05, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/8/23 14:38, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 1/8/2023 5:32 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/8/23 14:20, Bill Cunningham wrote: I will post this here since the test list is low traffic; I don't believe it is O

booting fedora project image

2023-01-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
I have tried to boot from Fedora's g'ziped tarball on GCP. I find it hard to understand how to do this. GCP's instructions seem vague Videos I find on youtube also seem to be old and out of date. I know you upload this to a bucket but how do you get it to a VM to install and boot? Is anyone fam

Kernel drivers RT2870

2023-02-12 Thread Bill Cunningham
IDK if anyone is familiar with this series of legacy products/drivers or not, but I am using of course F37. Now there is some nice source code and such with these drivers for this USB wifi antenna; but I just want to load a driver and go at it. I can't even get online now via linux. Does anyone

connecting using wireless usb

2023-02-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
Does anyone have any idea how to turn on wireless from the cli? ip add is extremely complicated as well as ifconfig which is I guess deprecated. I had to reinstall everything and it was detected when rebooting no wifi. Can I get online in a simple manner. One can I guess use iw somehow too. I h

Re: connecting using wireless usb

2023-02-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 2/15/2023 6:09 PM, Reon Beon via users wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Networking/CLI I have tried everything here, and so more on the man page. Nothing seems to work. This is an error I get, I have no idea what it means; Error: Failed to add/activate new connection: Device class

nmcli problems

2023-02-19 Thread Bill Cunningham
Well I was finally able to get the right cli option into the cli to activate the wifi and I got no wifi found. Wifi was showing up with the rest of the connections, I tried another command and got this, STATE CONNECTIVITY  WIFI-HW  WIFI WWAN-HW  WWAN disconnected  none  miss

Re: nmcli problems

2023-02-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 2/20/2023 5:08 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Feb 19, 2023, at 20:58, Bill Cunningham wrote: Well I was finally able to get the right cli option into the cli to activate the wifi and I got no wifi found. Wifi was showing up with the rest of the connections, I tried another command

Re: nmcli problems

2023-02-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 2/20/2023 5:29 PM, George N. White III wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 9:58 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: Well I was finally able to get the right cli option into the cli to activate the wifi and I got no wifi found. Wifi was showing up with the rest of the connections, I tried

Re: nmcli problems

2023-02-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 2/21/2023 1:25 PM, Mike Wright wrote: On 2/21/23 08:56, Bill C wrote: This thing is an antenna that plugs into the USB port On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 7:20 AM George N. White III wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 4:47 AM Barry wrote: On 21 Feb 2023, at 03:42, Bill Cunningham wrote

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 2/24/2023 3:28 PM, John Mellor wrote: On 2023-02-24 12:46 p.m., GianPiero Puccioni wrote: On 24/02/2023 15:31, John Mellor wrote: Ok, I'm anticipating a firestorm of BS responses on this, but here goes anyway. We've now had BTRFS as the default filesystem for some time in Fedora. However,

Re: /etc/hosts question

2023-03-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
I checked those DNS resolvers out of curiosity. Indeed porn is blocked. Cool. I don't have any kids or anyone I want to limit in mapping from getting to porn sites, so I trust myself. :) Nice though. B On 3/15/2023 9:58 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora 37 bind-9.18.12-1.fc37

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