Re: xDSL + network-scripts connection not working in Fedora 39

2024-03-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/25/24 19:42, Franta Hanzlík wrote: On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:47:37 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: Even wifi connections are "system-wide" connections. And whatever information you had about VPNs is very old. I've used NM for that for a long time. Really? Especially with WiFi connections, I thoug

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/25/2024 07:57 PM, Tim via users wrote: Brute force and ignorance is a tried and tested method. Trying to be clever with boot menus, and carefully selecting specific partitions while installing, often goes awry. Not to mention the times you come across an installer that only wants to do a

Re: xDSL + network-scripts connection not working in Fedora 39

2024-03-25 Thread Franta Hanzlík via users
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:47:37 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 3/25/24 17:31, Franta Hanzlík wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:48:23 -0700 > > Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > >> On 3/25/24 11:52, Franta Hanzlík via users wrote: > [...] > >> > >> What do you mean by "system-wide"? I use it for site

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Tim via users
Thomas Cameron wrote: >> I've actually set up my Linux machines so that they mount /home on an >> NFS file server in my home office. I can nuke my desktop and reinstall >> it in less than 10 minutes with a kickstart, and my home directory is >> unchanged. Makes it a lot easier when I do the inev

Re: xDSL + network-scripts connection not working in Fedora 39

2024-03-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/25/24 17:31, Franta Hanzlík wrote: On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:48:23 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/25/24 11:52, Franta Hanzlík via users wrote: After upgrading my gateway x86_64 Linux box to F39, my VDSL connection to internet does not work, although I have all the necessary packages (network

Re: xDSL + network-scripts connection not working in Fedora 39

2024-03-25 Thread Franta Hanzlík via users
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:48:23 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 3/25/24 11:52, Franta Hanzlík via users wrote: > > After upgrading my gateway x86_64 Linux box to F39, my VDSL connection > > to internet does not work, although I have all the necessary packages > > (network-scripts, ppp, rp-pppoe) insta

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 12:36 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > On 3/25/24 11:38, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 11:07 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > > dmesg > /dev/nvme1n1 > > > > What's that about? > > If you overwrite the first few sectors of the drive (i.e. with the > outp

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/25/24 15:27, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/25/24 08:21, Michael Hennebry wrote: Thanks folks. Disabling UEFI mode did the trick, though I do not understand why it was necessary. I thought that recent Fedora DVDs worked with both legacy and UEFI. The

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/25/24 08:21, Michael Hennebry wrote: Thanks folks. Disabling UEFI mode did the trick, though I do not understand why it was necessary. I thought that recent Fedora DVDs worked with both legacy and UEFI. The Fedora-WS-Live-39-1.5 DVD does have an EFI

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/25/24 08:21, Michael Hennebry wrote: Thanks folks. Disabling UEFI mode did the trick, though I do not understand why it was necessary. I thought that recent Fedora DVDs worked with both legacy and UEFI. The Fedora-WS-Live-39-1.5 DVD does have an EFI directory. I didn't get a grub menu until

Re: xDSL + network-scripts connection not working in Fedora 39

2024-03-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/25/24 11:52, Franta Hanzlík via users wrote: After upgrading my gateway x86_64 Linux box to F39, my VDSL connection to internet does not work, although I have all the necessary packages (network-scripts, ppp, rp-pppoe) installed. And it all worked correctly on the previous F37 system. After

xDSL + network-scripts connection not working in Fedora 39

2024-03-25 Thread Franta Hanzlík via users
After upgrading my gateway x86_64 Linux box to F39, my VDSL connection to internet does not work, although I have all the necessary packages (network-scripts, ppp, rp-pppoe) installed. And it all worked correctly on the previous F37 system. After some investigation the cause was clear - network-

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/25/24 11:38, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 11:07 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: dmesg > /dev/nvme1n1 What's that about? poc To further clarify, my system uses NVMe drives (/dev/nvme0n1 and /dev/nvme1n1). So when I do dmesg > /dev/nvme1n1 as root, it overwrites the fi

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/25/24 11:38, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 11:07 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: dmesg > /dev/nvme1n1 What's that about? If you overwrite the first few sectors of the drive (i.e. with the output of the dmesg command), it nukes the boot instructions. It causes my machin

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 11:07 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: dmesg > /dev/nvme1n1 What's that about? My guess is that nvm stands for non-volatile memory. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental tech

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 11:07 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > dmesg > /dev/nvme1n1 What's that about? poc -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Thomas Cameron wrote: Fedora can install on either legacy BIOS mode or modern UEFI. But when it installs on UEFI systems, it creates a special partition mounted on /boot/efi. If you boot a system which was installed in BIOS mode in UEFI mode, it doesn't see that partition a

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/25/24 11:01, Joe Zeff wrote: If you have /home on its own partition, you don't even need to have it mounted on your file server.  Just do a custom partitioning (I presume that you can do that with a kickstart) mounting that partition as /home and not reformatting and Bob's your uncle.  I

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/25/2024 09:33 AM, Thomas Cameron wrote: I've actually set up my Linux machines so that they mount /home on an NFS file server in my home office. I can nuke my desktop and reinstall it in less than 10 minutes with a kickstart, and my home directory is unchanged. Makes it a lot easier whe

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/25/24 10:21, Michael Hennebry wrote: Thanks folks. Disabling UEFI mode did the trick, though I do not understand why it was necessary. I thought that recent Fedora DVDs worked with both legacy and UEFI. The Fedora-WS-Live-39-1.5 DVD does have an EFI directory. I didn't get a grub menu until

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
Thanks folks. Disabling UEFI mode did the trick, though I do not understand why it was necessary. I thought that recent Fedora DVDs worked with both legacy and UEFI. The Fedora-WS-Live-39-1.5 DVD does have an EFI directory. I didn't get a grub menu until disabling UEFI. -- Michael henne...@mai

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/24/24 18:43, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've been trying to get an HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt to boot from dvd. So far no luck. I've managed to get DVD listed as the first boot entry for both UEFI and legacy. The machine seems to try and fail. The error messages go by rather fast. I think I've seem