On Feb 27, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
Most people seem to be doing just one distribution. Is anyone else
doing multiples?
Similar. FC6/Ubuntu LTS/WinXPPro on the primary laptop, OS X Tiger
primary desktop, in-house servers running FC version x, CentOS.
Commercial servers
at my current place
of employment, I support various quantities of Fedora, Red Hat Linux,
Red Hat Enterprise, CentOS, SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
OpenBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, NT4, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, and a
small handful of other wacky stuff.
-Shawn
On Feb 25, 2007, at 17:22, Ben Scott wrote:
However, the build most things from source solution is not without
issues itself. It it slower than binary packages (imagine installing
the first GNOME package this way -- please wait while we build the
world from source).
For a point of
with
symlinks. It's not ideal, but it's a start. I stole that part from
the Fedora /etc/alternatives mechanism.
Now, if an RPM was just a cpio archive you'd be done. But you have
pre- and post-install scripts that get run, mechanisms for helping
with /etc/ configuration, etc.
How do
, and won't
attempt to speculate on, ESR's specific issues with Fedora but I can
understand some of his frustration. Fedora, SuSE, and the other major
distros shouldn't be aimed solely at very savvy developers, but should
be installable by newbies. I'm not a newbie - I started my UNIX
experience
On Monday 26 February 2007 09:52 am, Bayard Coolidge wrote:
I'm still trying to get DVDs to play on my x86_64-based SuSE 10.2
system; Kaffeine complains that the DVD is encrypted, and neither it nor
VLC can make use of libdvdcss-1.2.8-2.network.i386.rpm or
libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.i386.rpm. I
On 2/26/07, Bayard Coolidge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... the last dozen or two that I've tried don't seem to do
the trick, and there's no x86_64.rpm available.
Good luck with that. A lot of video playback on Linux depends on
ripping the libraries out of MS Windows. And since those are all
No, that's not what I was referring to as nonsensical - I do understand
the legal issues around DVD thoroughly, as much as I detest them.
What I was referring to was the quagmire of interdependencies in some
packages that make it difficult/impractical to update to new versions
conveniently. (I
On 2/26/07, Bayard Coolidge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I was referring to was the quagmire of interdependencies in some
packages that make it difficult/impractical to update to new versions
conveniently.
That is another aspect to this disgusting mess.
I tried building GNOME from source
Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I feel sorry for the ubuntu-devel list when he hits his first dpkg
circular dependency.
The dependency couldn't be met. The package maintainer screwed up,
and had it dependent on a version of a package that wasn't available.
flamewar=best_distro
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:22:06 -0500
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In response to the source/binary discussion:
Building from source *does* bypass a lot of problems. It has been
suggested in the past that something like a cross between BSD ports
and RPM might be a good solution for
fine then. On the off chance that I had upgraded
my kernel and forgotten about it, I booted the previous kernel version
(I always keep the previous kernel around, just in case). That one
exhibited the same behavior.
So I rebooted into my old Fedora Core 5 installation. Despite being
covered
On 2/26/07, Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
suggested in the past that something like a cross between BSD ports
and RPM might be a good solution for many problems. Something that,
with one simple command, could automatically download all the needed
source packages, configure, build,
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 06:34:36PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On 2/26/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and they don't make into testing without going through unstable for a
while.
I thought things only had to be in unstable for seven days,
without any issues being filed against
On Monday 26 February 2007 06:34 pm, Ben Scott wrote:
On 2/26/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If esr moves to Debian and sticks with stable he won't have *these*[1]
problems.
You can screw up just about any system, including one running Debian
stable
He made a point about
On 2/26/07, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why does everything have to be a flame war? Your response fits in a flame
war, but not his.
Actually, my response was more like a desultory, goalless rant (very
similar to ESR's original post, in fact). To be a proper flame, I
have to
On 2/26/07, Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
suggested in the past that something like a cross between BSD ports
and RPM might be a good solution for many problems. Something that,
with one simple command, could automatically download all the needed
source packages, configure, build,
Libraries enable code re-use. Now programmers don't have to
continuously re-invent the wheel; they can build on the word of
others. Shared libraries mean you only have to update one .so to fix
a bug or security hole; you don't have to rebuild/update everything
that uses it. Sounds like a win,
On 2/26/07, Dan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whats scarier? vim /etc/config_file.config or kate
/etc/config_file.config? Its not that scary, you don't need to edit many
many config files.
Scary from the point of view of P17T [1].
1. PDOTLREBTWWLLAPACTT [2]
2. People doing ordinary tasks,
I wouldn't mind making a presentation, it can't be right away though.I
could do it sometime. What other things do you want to know? I will work
on a presentation, so I won't answer them via email.
Dan
Ben Scott wrote:
On 2/26/07, Dan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whats scarier? vim
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:04:46PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On 2/26/07, Dan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whats scarier? vim /etc/config_file.config or kate
/etc/config_file.config? Its not that scary, you don't need to edit many
many config files.
Scary from the point of view of P17T
at bugzilla.redhat.com.
Granted I've had mixed success with that avenue.
Were I desperate I'd grab an SRPM and edit a SPEC file. That's clearly
not something most users know how to do.
Fedora is not aimed at most users. Fedora is not meant to be stable.
Go read their mission statement
For somebody whose CS isn't as rusty as mine - I think one should be
able to setup a dedicated process to watch a repo and build graphs of
dependencies and preemptively find this kind of breakage. Comments?
Yes, you probably could, but that's what the million monkeys on the
Internet are
Nigel Stewart wrote:
Without disagreeing with your points about how open source is
supposed to work, I think doing better repo quality control
would be a good direction for things to go. There doesn't seem
much point in letting a repo get into a inconsistent state and
letting that flow
I don't love the style of ESR's comments, but I think that maybe some folks
on the list are missing his point. I believe he is trying to express that as
long as installing software has anything to do with how rusty your cs
skills are, adoption of Linux for regular users is going to continue to be
of Linux for regular users is going to continue to be
low.
Actually, I suspect ESR was just pissed that his system was screwed
up, and ranted in the general direction of Fedora because that's what
he happened to be using. How his system got screwed up, I expect
we'll never know. It could be his
However, the build most things from source solution is not without
issues itself. It it slower than binary packages (imagine installing
the first GNOME package this way -- please wait while we build the
world from source). It's largely incompatible with the world of
closed-source, binary-only
On 2/23/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My translation: I couldn't figure out a dependency so I went
deleting system packages without knowing or checking what the
consequences would be and I didn't know how to recover from that
point. That's terribly embarrassing, but rather than
On Feb 24, 2007, at 10:02, Thomas Charron wrote:
The dependency couldn't be met. The package maintainer screwed up,
and had it dependent on a version of a package that wasn't available.
Ah, OK, thanks for the correction.
Still, if I hit that problem I'd go file a bug at
switching to Ubuntu.
I recently switched from Fedora Core to Kubuntu, and so far, so good.
I couldn't agree more about the stagnation of rpm. For quite a while
I've felt that there souldn't actually be a need to extract all the
files into the filesystem. It ought to be a matter of
virtualising
On 2/24/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Feb 24, 2007, at 10:02, Thomas Charron wrote:
The dependency couldn't be met. The package maintainer screwed up,
and had it dependent on a version of a package that wasn't available.
Ah, OK, thanks for the correction.
Still, if I hit
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:31:33 -0500
Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's friggen insane that they're choosing to enforce the patent NOW,
after so many years.
No, I call it the Unisys theory.
Many years ago Hoffman encoding was used for the ATT pack(1) command.
ATT used
Jerry,
It is also interesting that the Huffman algorithm was published in a
number of computer science books and was originally published in 1952.
As you know, publication of the algorithm has nothing to do with the
protection of a patent as long as it was done after the patent was
taken.
My translation: I couldn't figure out a dependency so I went
deleting system packages without knowing or checking what the
consequences would be and I didn't know how to recover from that
point. That's terribly embarrassing, but rather than ask for advice
or autodopeslap, I'll make a big
Eric Raymond rants:
After thirteen years as a loyal Red Hat and Fedora user, I reached
my limit today, when an attempt to upgrade one (1) package pitched
me into a four-hour marathon of dependency chasing, at the end of
which an attempt to get around a trivial file conflict rendered
my
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 09:29 -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote:
Eric Raymond rants:
After thirteen years as a loyal Red Hat and Fedora user, I reached
my limit today, when an attempt to upgrade one (1) package pitched
me into a four-hour marathon of dependency chasing, at the end of
which
One of the responses was pretty good:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg01051.html
Regards,
--kevin
--
GnuPG ID: B280F24E Never could stand that dog.
alumni.unh.edu!kdc -- Tom Waits
On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I prefer to read the original source from the original target:
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg01006.html
His complaints seem rather vague and lacking in any kind of goal.
More to the point, who cares? Linux
I could not agree with you more, which is why I sent my email.
I liked Alan Cox's response the best.
md
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, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I prefer to read the original source from the original target:
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg01006.html
His complaints seem rather vague and lacking in any kind of goal.
More
On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I could not agree with you more, which is why I sent my email.
I liked Alan Cox's response the best.
Right up till the:
That was said by Eric Raymond who belongs to another movement
- Richard Stallman
Nice
On Thursday, Feb 22nd 2007 at 10:51 -0500, quoth Ben Scott:
=On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
= I prefer to read the original source from the original target:
= www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg01006.html
=
= His complaints seem rather vague
community is a free market. If
we don't like SuSE, we can chose Mandrivia, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, or
a number of distros.
The free market also exists in the Windows environment, you can get any
flavor of Windows as long as it is Microsoft :-)
--
Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boston Linux
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:26:34 -0500
Chris Linstid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't this the same guy that made such a huge deal a few years ago
about getting a phone interview offer from Microsoft? He wrote some
offensive letter back to the recruiter saying he was an idiot for
trying to recruit
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 11:39 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote:
On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I could not agree with you more, which is why I sent my email.
I liked Alan Cox's response the best.
Right up till the:
That was said by Eric Raymond who belongs to
On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 11:39 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote:
On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Right up till the:
That was said by Eric Raymond who belongs to another movement
- Richard
-- Original message --
From: Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I could not agree with you more, which is why I sent my email.
I like reading the source. It gives it a nice context, and the humor value of
the replies is worth the time.
I liked Alan Cox's
On 2/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I find Alan to be too much like ESR to put any stock in his words. This is,
afterall, the same guy that censored the kernel changelog back in 2.2.20
because he didn't like the DMCA
Oh common, that was friggen hilarious!
--
--
with any attitude other than blank denial.
Fedora as a distribution has stayed pretty pure with respect to not
shipping what is defined by them to be free. Other distributions have
been a little less restrictive in this sense, and this causes these
distributions to be somewhat easier to install
.
Fedora as a distribution has stayed pretty pure with respect to not
shipping what is defined by them to be free. Other distributions have
been a little less restrictive in this sense, and this causes these
distributions to be somewhat easier to install and use.
And be able to do some core desktop
On 2/22/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And be able to do some core desktop features. Like say.. Play MP3
files.. :-D
In order for Red Hat (or the Fedora Project; I'm not sure about
legal status there) to include MP3 support in their distribution, they
would have to *buy
On 2/22/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/22/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And be able to do some core desktop features. Like say.. Play MP3
files.. :-D
In order for Red Hat (or the Fedora Project; I'm not sure about
legal status there) to include MP3 support
On 2/22/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html
50,000$ one time up front fee, and they can solve the issue of an
Open Source MP3 player. For everyone.
Oh, please. Do you really think Thomson is going to agree to
license for perpetual
On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Speaking of MP3s and being sued to smithereens.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6161480.html?tag=nl.e589
And it could not have happened to nicer people...
QQ
Thanks for the link, I wasn't aware of that particular news article.
I'm
50,000$ one time up front fee, and they can solve the issue of an
Open Source MP3 player. For everyone.
It was inadvertent that my news article about the $1.5 billion dollar
settlement on MP3 technology crossed your email about mp3 licensing, but
I did want to point out that I do not think
On 2/22/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/22/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html
50,000$ one time up front fee, and they can solve the issue of an
Open Source MP3 player. For everyone.
Oh, please. Do you really think
Some of
which are local in Massachusetts and are, needless to say, very large.
Yes, and right now I would think they are shaking in their boots.
The good news is that the Alcatel/Lucent vs MS battle seems as much a
grudge match as a revenue stream at this point.
Alcatel-Lucent's Ambrus
It's friggen insane that they're choosing to enforce the patent NOW,
after so many years.
No, I call it the Unisys theory.
Many years ago Hoffman encoding was used for the ATT pack(1) command.
ATT used it, BSD used it, Sun used it, etc. and it had been published
in many books. It was a
(For Your Information - it may save you some grief)
amanda would not backup my laptop. There were no useful error messages
in the amanda log. I finally ran tcpdump to monitor the chit-chat and
discovered that reverse lookup for my LAN (192.168.0.x) numbers was not
working.
host 192.168.0.5
On 1/8/07, Todd Littlefield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I remember correctly, underscores are not allowed in names. Only
a-z, 0-9 and the hyphen character are acceptable.
Right. Internet names should contain only those characters, and
begin and end with a letter or number (dashes in the
On 8/4/06, Python [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been unable to to install packages from the fedora core
repositories (and mirrors).
FWIW, I booted my FC5 install, and yum Worked For Me(TM). The
fedora-core.repo file does contain a URL that looks like the URL that
was giving you trouble
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 11:27 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On 8/4/06, Python [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been unable to to install packages from the fedora core
repositories (and mirrors).
FWIW, I booted my FC5 install, and yum Worked For Me(TM). The
fedora-core.repo file does contain a URL
I've been unable to to install packages from the fedora core
repositories (and mirrors). Here's an example of what happens:
# yum install hexedit
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/RPMS/hexedit-1.2.12-3.2.i386.rpm:
[Errno -1] Header is not complete.
Trying other
Any shot you could email us the output of iptables -L with the firewall on?
-N
On Saturday 17 June 2006 03:30 pm, Glenn Shaw wrote:
I have been setting up Synergy on a computer running FC5. With the
firewall disabled is works OK and sees the Server. When I restore the
firewall it says it can
I have been setting up Synergy on a computer running FC5. With the
firewall disabled is works OK and sees the Server. When I restore the
firewall it says it can not see the server and connect with it. I have
port 24800 entered as a trusted service. I tried rebooting after making
the
Hi all,
This week I got a Buffalo LinkStation Home Server, which is basically
a NAS type device that exports a SMB mount point. I have a Fedora Core
3 system which is able to mount the device using smbmount but is
unable to write more than 2G to it. At first I thought this was a
LinkStation issue
.
I'm comming back to my original theme. FC5 install can't
access the files using http, but konqueror on knoppix has no trouble.
It's hard to believe that Fedora team didn't test the net install at
all, so perhaps it has something to do with not finding the machine
via a name server
.
It has been years since I've done a Red Hat install via FTP, but
back in the RHL 6.x days, a numeric IP address worked.
The Google search
http://www.google.com/search?q=fedora+install+ftp+%22ip+address%22
finds plenty of pages that suggest you can use a numeric IP address
with current Fedora Core
Ben Scott writes:
On 3/22/06, Bill Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got a box with the iso files on it, mounted via the loop
back device, and vsftpd running behind my router.
Is your router between the FTP server and the FTP client? Is the
router performing NAT
Ben Scott writes:
On 3/23/06, Bill Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Both machines are on the inside side of the router, from which
point of view I presume that it acts like a switch or hub.
Oh. I believe you are correct, there. So much for that theory. :-/
An
On 3/23/06, Bill Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An interesting additional data point is that if I tell the ftp
client on Knoppix to use passive mode, then I can no longer do
transfers.
Ah-ha! I, too, suspect the cause of that problem is also causing a
problem for the installer. I would
Ben Scott writes:
On 3/23/06, Bill Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An interesting additional data point is that if I tell the ftp
client on Knoppix to use passive mode, then I can no longer do
transfers.
Ah-ha! I, too, suspect the cause of that problem is also causing a
On 3/23/06, Bill Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It was a good try. With the subnetword temporarily isolated
from the rest of the world, and the server firewall disabled, I could
ftp from knoppix in passive mode, including data connections ...
Woo who!
... but FC5 installer still
Ben Scott wrote:
Since that obviously sucks for any number of reasons, passive mode
was created. PASV has the *server* listen on an ephemeral port, which
it tells the client about. The client then connects to that port for
the data channel.
Just a minor nit; PASV mode wasn't invented to
On 3/23/06, John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a minor nit; PASV mode wasn't invented to deal with firewalls; if I
recall correctly, it was part of the ftp spec early on, and its intended
purpose was for server-to-server transfers.
Ah. Interesting. I stand corrected.
On 3/23/06,
Ben Scott wrote:
Perhaps, an upgrade or a switch to a different firewall software is in order.
What are you using now?
Currently, it is a relatively old release of IP Filter (ipf) from
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ that was hacked up by the OpenBSD
folks before the licensing
Jason Stephenson writes:
... It must have something to do with that machine having an AT
keyboard port and I'm using an AT/PS-2 adapter to connect it to the
KVM.)
At keyboard and PS/2 keyboard use the same electrical and
signalling protocol. An adapter is just connectors and wire,
I've made enough coasters with the name of an office supply
store printed on them, so I decided to try an ftp install of Fedora 5.
I've got a box with the iso files on it, mounted via the loop
back device, and vsftpd running behind my router. From the target
box, using knoppix, I
What : Open Source Development and Productization
Who : Tim Burke, Director of Fedora Project Kernel Development at Red Hat
When : Tue, 24 Jan 2006, at 5:00 PM
Where: Walker Auditorium, Robert Frost Hall, SNHU
This is *THIS TUESDAY*!
GNHLUG regulars, please note the time!
GNHLUG, NH IEEE
On 1/19/06, hewitt_tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm installing Fedora Core 4 on a Dell SC1420 server that contains a
hardware SATA RAID controller and 3 80 GB drives. So far it appears that the
hardware RAID (Dell Cerc /Adaptec) makes the 3 drives transparent to the OS.
That is Linux just saw
On 1/20/06, hewitt_tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dell included some CDs with the new system but not the OpenManage Server
Administrator disk which is supposed to provide the RAID management
utilities. I've been poking around the Dell web site looking for the
required software but so far no
- Original Message -
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: GNHLUG gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: Are there problems using hardware RAID with Redhat Fedora Core
4?
On 1/19/06, hewitt_tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm installing
I'm installing Fedora Core 4 on a Dell SC1420
server that contains a hardware SATA RAID controller and 3 80 GB drives. So far
it appears that the hardware RAID (Dell Cerc /Adaptec) makes the 3 drives
transparent to the OS. That is Linux just saw an ~148 GB drive and installed on
it without
hewitt_tech wrote:
I'm installing Fedora Core 4 on a Dell SC1420 server that contains a
hardware SATA RAID controller and 3 80 GB drives. So far it appears that
the hardware RAID (Dell Cerc /Adaptec) makes the 3 drives transparent to
the OS. That is Linux just saw an ~148 GB drive
- Original Message -
From: Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: Are there problems using hardware RAID with Redhat Fedora Core
4?
On Thursday 19 January 2006 07:12 pm, hewitt_tech wrote
Ben,
The content of /etc/redhat-release file shows:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 2)
Thank you.
Zhao
Ben Scott wrote:
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any replies.]
On 1/2/06, Zhao Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you for
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On 1/2/06, Zhao Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you for still paying attention to my partition problem.
Sure thing. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. :)
1 What release of Red Hat
What : Open Source Development and Productization
Who : Tim Burke, Director of Fedora Project Kernel Development at Red Hat
When : Tue, 24 Jan 2006, at 5:00 PM
Where: Walker Auditorium, Robert Frost Hall, SNHU
GNHLUG regulars, please note the time!
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On 12/30/05, Zhao Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The whole dual-boot thing has been time-consuming, and I think it's time
for me to forget it and get some real work done.
I didn't have a chance to reply to this thread until now, but I
can't help but thing that the whole approach of trying to
incorrectly, due to my unfamiliarity with linux.
Sorry about that. :) )
In case you may forget, let me repeat my situation:
only 1 hard drive, and only RedHat Enterprise installed on it, and no
unallocated free space.
In order to resize the hard drive to give some space to Fedora, I used
Hi Jerry,
Thanks for your suggestions.
Below is what I did.
1 regular boot up from Knopixx
2 bring up konsole
3 su -
4 swapoff /dev/hda6
5 qtparted
For step 5, I got a line saying qtparted: cannot connect to X server
So I started qtparted via K menu - systems, and tried to resize
hda4
On Friday 30 December 2005 09:42 am, Zhao Peng wrote:
1 regular boot up from Knopixx
2 bring up konsole
2a xhost +
3 su -
4 swapoff /dev/hda6
5 qtparted
For step 5, I got a line saying qtparted: cannot connect to X server
That will be fixed by step 2a added above.
So I started qtparted
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 09:42 -0500, Zhao Peng wrote:
Hi Jerry,
Thanks for your suggestions.
Below is what I did.
1 regular boot up from Knopixx
2 bring up konsole
On my Knoppix 3.9 I can bring up a root console directly from the
Penguin Icon at the lower left (second icon from left)
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:42:38 -0500, Zhao Peng wrote:
Hi Jerry,
Thanks for your suggestions.
Below is what I did.
1 regular boot up from Knopixx
2 bring up konsole
3 su -
4 swapoff /dev/hda6
5 qtparted
For step 5, I got a line saying qtparted: cannot connect to X server
So I
Hi,
Another thing you could do is to use Knoppix to mount and copy your 3 GB of
data to another partition that you are not going to modify, then simply delete
the partition that you wish to resize and remake it.
md
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On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:42:38 -0500
Zhao Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Jerry,
Thanks for your suggestions.
Below is what I did.
1 regular boot up from Knopixx
2 bring up konsole
3 su -
4 swapoff /dev/hda6
5 qtparted
For step 5, I got a line saying qtparted: cannot connect to X
Thank you folks. Now I was able to start qtparted from shell as root.
But, I ran into the following error message:
Filesystem has incompatible feature enabled
Same error happened when I used parted. Not surprising, I believe qtparted is sort of GUI version of parted.
I googled and found no good
On Friday 30 December 2005 09:42 am, Zhao Peng wrote:
1 regular boot up from Knopixx
2 bring up konsole
2a xhost +
3 su -
4 swapoff /dev/hda6
5 qtparted
For step 5, I got a line saying qtparted: cannot connect to X server
That will be fixed by step 2a added above.
So I started qtparted
on it, and no
unallocated free space.
In order to resize the hard drive to give some space to Fedora, I used
Qtparted on Knoppix live DVD (I don't have Partition Magic).
Unfortunately it didn't work.
My current RedHat partition is as follows:
hda1 ext3
hda2 ext3
hda3 ext3
hda4 extended
hda5 ext3
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 01:10:44 -0500
Zhao Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Right now I'm having Red Hat Enterprise AS installed on my desktop
computer (which has only one hard drive). I'm wondering if I can also
put Fedora on it so that I can dual boot from either Red Hat Enterprise
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