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<0> mutk : It took me 5 minutes
<1> i have a IBM t30 laptop and i dont know how to use the built in number pad. anybody know how?
<2> wow, mutk, you sure are popular in here :P
<3> kbrooks, Ok. How odd. Look in /etc/fstab is there a line that includes /media/floppy ?
<3> Heh..
<4> mutk: no.
<4> mutk: FC5 does not modify fstab.
<3> doojin, Yeh, if it's yumex, it's slow locating repositories..
<4> mutk: i get this:
<2> mutk: any idea why it's frozen?
<4> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
<4> (END)
<3> cypher543, Need more detail about the hardware..
<5> How big is the kernel source?
<4> mutk: (ignore END)
<5> I got a file that's like 50K and that doesn't seem right.
<4> mutk: the error doesnt show up in tthe terminal.
<3> kbrooks, Is that after attempting to use it?
<4> mutk: the error shows up in dmesg (how odd)
<3> craigb***1976, It is about 40M last I looked
<0> mutk : It is named package manager
<2> mutk: ATI video card, 1 ghz AMD Duron processor, Samsung 40 gig HDD, 256 megs of RAM, and thats all I can think of at the moment
<2> the progress bar is about 10 pixels from the end and it hasn't moved for about 15 minutes
<2> maybe even more
<4> mutk: i wonder which floppy it wants to look at.
<3> cypher543, Try booting the installer with linux acpi=off Look at fedorafaq.org for more possibilities..
<4> mutk: what can i do now?
<5> mutk, ok. I can't seem to get it from kernel.org; only a patch.
<4> mutk: i'm not THAT good at computers.
<0> kbrooks : man, the package manager only shows softwares I have.
<5> Where's the best place to get it.
<3> kbrooks, Damn. Not much I can do here, at least we have determined for sure that it's broken ..
<4> mutk: what's "broken"?
<3> craigb***1976, Not from kernel.org..
<6> i guess before i sync i'll have to make a list on both ends, then compare the dates, make new lists.. then do the sync both ways based off the lists.. what a pain in the ***..
<3> kbrooks, Either the kernel and you specific floppy controller , or the floppy device and controller on your motherboard..
<4> mutk: well, think back to the windows thing. i'm sure its the latter
<3> craigb***1976, yum utils has yum downloader. It can be used to download the kernel src.rpm file for your system.
<4> mutk: but i dont know how to open up a single computer
<3> kbrooks, Yeh, I'd investigate first - see if Windows can access the floppy _now_. If so you know for sure it is a Linux problem.
<5> I can't get my linux box online for some reason. Just set up a windows box at a friend's with his new DSL and can only get windows on. No time to mess with it really, I just want to get the source and let him play wiht his new computer.
<4> mutk: i dont have windows!
<3> craigb***1976, download.fedora.com has all the SRPM packages for Fedora.
<4> mutk: shall i reboot to ubuntu & try?
<3> kbrooks, Yeh, why not.
<4> mutk: how do i mount my floppy?
<0> mutk : I can't play an mpg file with totem, why not?
<3> kbrooks, Usually mount /media/floppy
<3> doojin, fedorafaq.org ;)
<4> mutk: 'usually' ;)
<4> mutk: mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy ?
<3> kbrooks, I don't have a FC5 box to play with right now. I don't recall what changes have been made..
<5> mutk, is that the exact link? I'm sent to a site that sells fedora hats.
<3> craigb***1976, Erk.. download.fedora.redhat.com Sorry.
<7> kbrooks: by default installation Fedora has no MPEG1/2/3 decoder
<4> Healot: i didnt ask the question.
<7> sorry, for mutk
<7> for doojin
<5> mutk, ok, but if you need a hat go to the other one.
<0> Healot : ?
<8> I'm trying to install FC on a fairly old computer that has a CD drive but can't boot from it. Is there any way to copy files to a hard drive and run those files to get the installation started?
<4> Anonycat: Doubt it
<4> brb
<9> Anonycat, yes.. you can with the DVD ISO.. however the data will need to persist the entire install
<10> Anonycat: got a floppy? or can netboot?
<9> in other words.. you need to have a partition you will not format on install to read the local iso
<5> mutk thanks. I got it.
<9> Anonycat, what is on the machine now?
<8> Windows 98
<9> Anonycat, does it boot floppy?
<8> I think
<9> you could prime the system with PXE images to get a install going
<9> http://www.damaestro.us/howtos/installing-fedora-core-w-two-floppies/
<9> i think the util on windows to make the floppies is rawrite or something like that
<0> uhu
<0> hell
<11> does FC3 use PAM?
<3> It does.
<3> Red Hat has had PAM since a _long_ time ago. Fedora has it out of the box..
<11> do u know why i would get an auth failure?
<11> when i try to change my p***word?
<11> i manually went into /etc/shadows
<11> and took out the root p***word
<3> Yikes.
<11> but i still cannot change it
<12> anyone ever gotten ssod to work? from sfu?
<3> neilthereildeil, You already have root access otherwise you would not have been able to edit /etc/shadow. Got another box to use rnning FC?
<11> yea
<11> i have root access
<11> i booted into singl mode
<11> are a kernel argument
<3> neilthereildeil, Ah right. So even in single user you cannot set/change p***words? I'd suspect some interferance
<3> neilthereildeil, rpm -Va |less see what has been altered on the system.
<11> ok
<2> mutk: it still hangs and the cursor keeps flickering on the formatting message :(
<2> it installed without problems on an older Gateway computer
<2> with a 15 gig HDD
<13> is there a list of yum repositories? what are some decent ones?
<13> the ones that come on fedora are absolutely useless
<14> chafe: useless?
<2> chafe: livna
<13> livna does not have ndiswrapper
<14> chafe: so lets get this straight... the thousands of open source packages.. contributed by the active Fedora community.. are useless?
<13> i am looking for one that has ndiswrapper
<13> okay sorry Jef i wasnt being completely serious
<14> chafe: oh.. well then.. if we arent being serious... try the crashhat repo
<15> Circuit City has Gateway laptops, $570.00 1.5 ghz celeron, wonder how good these units really are.
<9> has anyone figured out how to add actions to download actions?
<9> FF1.5?
<2> could someone please tell me why anaconda hangs during formatting the root file system?
<16> cypher543: that tends to be the kind of thing you have to figure out for yourself
<2> i payed for these Fedora CDs and I'd really like to make them work
<16> cypher543: try switching to the other VTs and look for error messages
<2> DrNick: well, you'd think that if I could figure it out, I wouldn't be asking the in support channel
<2> VT?
<16> virtual terminal
<16> Ctrl+Alt+Fkeys
<14> cypher543: irc is best used for problems that people can attempt to reproduce
<14> cypher543: installer issues.... are much more difficult to even attempt to reproduce... the web forums and mailinglist are far more likely to find someone else who has experience a similar problem already
<2> Ctrl+Alt+F4 shows "<4>ide: failed opcode"
<2> is it my HDD?
<16> probably
<16> anything interesting before that?
<2> it's a brand new $80 Samsung... and I will be very angry if the problem is the HDD
<2> not really, it's just the same message over and over
<16> ah, so the interesting stuff probably scrolled off the screen already
<2> F5 gives me "Writing journal:"
<2> but it stays there
<2> along with the failed opcode msg, it also says "Unknown opcode was: None" sometimes
<2> when i switch back to anaconda, it gives me a blank screen with a blinking cursor
<16> has the drive ever worked with anything else?
<2> it worked with Windows XP
<11> what are the rwx permissions supposed to be for /etc/shadow?
<0> hi
<0> Fedora core 5 doesn't have mplayer in yumex
<0> why not?
<2> DrNick: should I just abort and do a complete format using a DOS boot disk?
<9> doojin, you need livna http://rpm.livna.org
<2> then retry the install (for the 5th time)
<16> cypher543: that may or may not help
<0> daMaestroe : ok
<16> cypher543: actually, hold on
<2> well, will buying a new computer help? becuase that's what I'm about to do
<0> daMaestro : the fedora document says that?
<9> doojin, mplayer is not provided by fedora
<0> daMaestro : why not?
<0> mplayer and win32 codec are very good
<9> ok sure..
<14> doojin: patent issues
<0> what patent?
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