automatic partitioning

2014-03-26 Thread Alexander Volovics
I have been following the discussions about the workstation part of Fedora.next and as anaconda installer was mentioned as the model of things to come I tried an install of Rawhide from a nightly build (this was not succesfull due to kernel errors, but that is not relevant here). I do hope this

Re: automatic partitioning

2014-03-26 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:48:15AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 04:34:01PM +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote: But a lot of users are quite happy with 'fixed' solutions, especially on laptops, and might not like this unnecessary complication. And do not like or need

'copy to' deselects hidden files?

2013-11-26 Thread Alexander Volovics
While using nautilus in fed20 beta + updates I noticed that when I use 'copy to' from the menu to move hidden files from one folder to another the 'Show hidden files' option is deselected from the original folder after copying (so the hidden files are no longer visible). Is this a bug or 'by

Re: Is efibootmgr expected to work?

2013-06-21 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:46:56PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: On Jun 20, 2013, at 5:14 AM, Alexander Volovics a.volo...@upcmail.nl wrote: On a Dell Inspiron 7720 with a working up to date install of Fed 19 beta I decided, for no good reason, to change the order of the Fedora and CD

Is efibootmgr expected to work?

2013-06-20 Thread Alexander Volovics
On a Dell Inspiron 7720 with a working up to date install of Fed 19 beta I decided, for no good reason, to change the order of the Fedora and CD entries in the EFI boot menu using efibootmgr. However when trying to boot again the only entry available in the EFI boot menu was for PXE boot. All

Re: windows7/8 in a gnome box

2013-06-10 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 09:55:54PM -0300, Germán A. Racca wrote: On 06/09/2013 01:56 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote: I wanted to test gnome-boxes on a fully updated fed19 beta. Both Win7 and Win8 install without problems but I am unable to enable 16:9 fullscreen (or any 16:9 screen

windows7/8 in a gnome box

2013-06-09 Thread Alexander Volovics
I wanted to test gnome-boxes on a fully updated fed19 beta. 1) I had to set selinux to permissive to enable the install of windows7/8 (or any Linux). Why? 2) Both Win7 and Win8 install without problems but I am unable to enable 16:9 fullscreen (or any 16:9 screen). For example 1600x900

Fed19 test days and test day pages

2013-04-23 Thread Alexander Volovics
Dear QArs, I would think that having serious minded users of Fedora participating in the test days would be appreciated. The actual testing itself is no problem but reporting the results seems to require a 'certificate' (log in with a FAS account) and arcane contortions with Wiki pages. I

Re: Install Advanced User options...

2013-04-01 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 06:46:22AM -0400, Kamil Paral wrote: Also, wouldn't it be preferable to have firstboot (if that is what it is called now) skip the user creation dialog if a user was created during the install? Yes, that is the plan, but it's not implemented yet. Firstboot is

Re: Installation completion time delay

2013-04-01 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 12:59:08AM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 03/29/2013 11:59 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: I've only done TC3 installs on a VM. At the end of the install process one clicks on Reboot at that time the screen then goes blank and the phrase [terminated] shows at the top of the

Re: Install Advanced User options...

2013-04-01 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 06:43:00AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: - Original Message - On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 06:46:22AM -0400, Kamil Paral wrote: Also, wouldn't it be preferable to have firstboot (if that is what it is called now) skip the user creation dialog if a user

F19 TC3 install

2013-03-29 Thread Alexander Volovics
Should a 'bare metal' install of TC3 be possible or is only a 'virtual' install supported. I tried 2x, once UEFI on a Lenovo Thinkpad x121e and once BIOS on an old Inspiron Vostro. Both 'default' installs after reclaiming all disk space. Both times anaconda crashed at the end of

Problems 'removing nouveau' in fed 18

2012-11-20 Thread Alexander Volovics
The standard ways of getting rid of the nouveau driver (up to Fed 17) do not seem to work anymore in Fed 18: add 'rdblacklist=nouveau' to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub (and/or add 'blacklist nouveau' to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf) and then run grub2-mkconfig and dracut. The

Re: Problems 'removing nouveau' in fed 18

2012-11-20 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:42:36PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 11/20/2012 07:45 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote: add 'rdblacklist=nouveau' to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub (and/or add 'blacklist nouveau' to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf) and then run grub2-mkconfig and dracut

Re: Problems 'removing nouveau' in fed 18

2012-11-20 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:15:11AM -0800, Sergio wrote: --- Em ter, 20/11/12, Alexander Volovics a.volo...@upcmail.nl escreveu: The standard ways of getting rid of the nouveau driver (up to Fed 17) do not seem to work anymore in Fed 18: How should this be done in Fed 18

Re: Problems 'removing nouveau' in fed 18

2012-11-20 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:32:03AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: You have to create a file like /etc/dracut.conf.d/10-blacklist.conf with omit_drivers+= nouveau https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873220 Thanks. Done that. Now wait and see what happens at the

Re: Problems 'removing nouveau' in fed 18

2012-11-20 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 08:43:18PM +0100, Nicolas Chauvet wrote: The standard ways of getting rid of the nouveau driver (up to Fed 17) do not seem to work anymore in Fed 18: add 'rdblacklist=nouveau' to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub (and/or add 'blacklist nouveau' to

Re: Problems 'removing nouveau' in fed 18

2012-11-20 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 01:21:16PM -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: You have to create a file like /etc/dracut.conf.d/10-blacklist.conf with omit_drivers+= nouveau This is only a workaround, the root cause is that rd.driver.blacklist does not function..

Re: Problems 'removing nouveau' in fed 18

2012-11-20 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 05:11:15PM -0500, mwesten wrote: On 11/20/2012 06:45 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote: The standard ways of getting rid of the nouveau driver (up to Fed 17) do not seem to work anymore in Fed 18: Try 'nouveau.disable=1' in place of 'rdblacklist=nouveau'. Disabling

Re: How to interpret F18 Blocker criterion

2012-11-07 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 11:59:31PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: We would just not have the Fedora release dependent upon the result from those tests... In practice what usually happens is I fire up the VM I keep around specifically for this purpose and do the test on the last few Final

How to interpret F18 Blocker criterion

2012-11-06 Thread Alexander Volovics
The F18 Blocker criteria contain: The installer must be able to install into free space alongside an existing clean single-partition Windows installation and either install a bootloader which can boot into the Windows installation, or leave the Windows bootloader untouched and working What must

TC7+UEFI+dualboot Windows8

2012-11-05 Thread Alexander Volovics
On a laptop with 2 disks and UEFI/Legacy I installed - Windows8 using the whole second disk and UEFI (no secure boot) - TC7 using the whole first disk and UEFI (no LVM + default partitioning) Both OS boot (using UEFI disk selection via F12) and work but there is no entry for Windows8 in the F18

Re: TC7+UEFI+dualboot Windows8

2012-11-05 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 04:57:39AM -0500, Kamil Paral wrote: On a laptop with 2 disks and UEFI/Legacy I installed - Windows8 using the whole second disk and UEFI (no secure boot) - TC7 using the whole first disk and UEFI (no LVM + default partitioning) Both OS boot (using UEFI

Re: reboot hangs with systemd-44-7.fc17

2012-04-27 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 09:22:40AM +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: after updating to systemd-44-7.fc17 (and systemd-sysv-44-7.fc17), rebooting hangs up. Pushing the reset button is needed :-( I had to downgrade systemd to get rid from this bug. No such problems with the previous version.

RC6 power saving

2012-04-24 Thread Alexander Volovics
Has RC6 power saving been enabled in the 3.3.2 kernel or must 'i915.i915_enable_rc6=1' still be added by hand. Alexander -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test