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6 kb/sec DL speed for DVD i386
by Jim Cornette 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

I downloaded the DC versions by mistake and had pretty good speed when retrieving the ISOs. I meant to grab the DVD, so I started the download of the DVD. The speed varies and is a bit on the slow side right now. Can anyone join the swarm to help with the downloading? I plan to seed both the DVD and CD for a few days once I get the copy. Thanks! Jim -- Space is to place as eternity is to time. -- Joseph Joubert

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FC Pre 6 test install
by MIKE LURK 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

This is for all of the nVidia proponents out there that are having trouble getting FC pre 6 installed with all the eye candy. This install was done using the DVD iso. It was a chore getting this to run as designed but it was well worth the effort. It's a bit long 1. Boot from DVD (naturally when you have a DVD from iso) 2. Choose the defaults for your keyboard, language and timezone......... 3. For the partitioning of the drive I left it with the defaults chosen. ( couldn't change anythingthing other wise it would error at trying to create a new partition, will try this again later to see if it was a hardware problem or if it was something to do with LVM). 4. Choose what you want to install and continue. (I know I skipped the network stuff and others as well but keeping in mind I am just using defaulta here. Later I will change a few things). 5.Finished the install. Remove DVD from drive and let it reboot. 6.On the First Boot screen, everything is shifted to the right so I can't see the next button. Then remembered in the mailing list about removing the rhgb from grub. 7. Removed rhgb from grub and booted to First Boot screens and chose what I needed. Continuing 8. Enter user name and password at the login screen. 9.1600x1200 resolution, Not good, beyond my monitors range, but still viewable. Downloading latest beta from nVidia's website. (following the readme, I went to the next step) 10. Installed driver and dependancies. (running the installer for the first time I found that I was missing a few. Using yum I installed them, gcc and others. Finished the driver install.) Let the installer run the nVidia xconfigurator. 11.Reboot computer and login. 1280x1024, very good. Tried to get Desktop Effects ot run (Preferences>More Prefereces>Desktop Effects) failed. Below you will see what my xorg.conf had to be for the Effects to work: # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Thu Sep 14 15:50:24 PDT 2006 # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "Monitor" ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: Identifier "Monitor0" ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster 910V/910M/913V" HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "nVidia Corporation GeForce 7600" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection Voila, the Desktop Effects works, for me anyways (luckily I had a copy of my FC 5 xorg.conf handy. Compare the differences between FC 5 and FC pre 6 ). There are many other issues with FC pre6. The hosts file has the loopback IP as ::1 when it should be 127.0.0.1 when using ipv4. The xorg nv driver does not recognize the proper resolution for the monitor( or maybe hal). The terminal window is just a white square. There are others as well. Glad to see you are delaying the release of FC6. Ta Ta Mike

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ata_piix and ide drivers in kernel
by Rodd Clarkson 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

I'm having problems getting my Dell Inspiron 9300 to see my DVD-RW as a SATA device (/dev/sdb[x]) instead of a IDE device (/dev/hdb[x]). This seriously impedes performance of the drive. Having done a little searching around the Internet (what a tool!) it appears the problem may be that both the ide and ata_piix drivers are included in the kernel as modules and that this results in the ata_piix driver installing before the ide driver and as such the DVD-RW drive is then seen as an IDE device. It's suggested that the ide driver be compiled into the kernel so that is installs first which results in the ata_piix driver then picking up the DVD-RW drive and getting it Right(TM). Can someone interpret what I'm saying (;-]) and then comment on how these two drivers are included in the kernel and whether or not this might affect the outcomes. Alternatively, can someone suggest another fix for this. R. -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side"

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yum not working in prerelease
by Tom Horsley 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

In the x86_64 fc6 prerelease: I can't get yum to install anything from extras and can't see why it shouldn't be able to. I poked and prodded a bunch of things and finally gave up and submitted this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208778 I see some other mail that sounds as if I'm not the only one with update problems in the prerelease. Maybe we'll have the fc6 penultimate release next :-).

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FTP install from Rawhide (too long?)
by Ernest L. Williams Jr. 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

Hi, I am attempting an FTP install from Rawhide. Everything was going fine up to the this: ======================================================= "Starting install process. This may take several minutes..." ======================================================= Now, it has been over 15 minutes. Can someone recommend a good mirror just in case I have start over again? I will give it 30 more minutes before I claim the site (ftp.uninett.no) is not responsive. Thanks, Ernest

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FC6Pre install attemp: Can no longer get to the install CD or Rescue CD
by Ernest L. Williams Jr. 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

Hi, How do I get back to trying to install FC6Pre? All I have now is a "grub>" prompt. A system reboot or poweron/off simply returns me back to a "grub>" prompt. Thanks, Ernest

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epiphany = missing
by Justin Conover 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

# yum install epiphany Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories extras-development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.1 MB 00:02 ################################################## 3466/3466 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.1 MB 00:02 ################################################## 3466/3466 Parsing package install arguments No Match for argument: epiphany Nothing to do # yum list | grep epiphany epiphany-extensions.i386 2.15.2-1 development epiphany-extensions.i386 2.15.2-1 extras-developme gwget-epiphany-extension.i386 0.97-7.fc6 development gwget-epiphany-extension.i386 0.97-7.fc6 extras-developme

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"busy" disk trouble
by Michal Jaegermann 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

I wonder if anybody else have seen something like that. I have a disk, a rather sizeable one, on which just was written a partition table and it looks like that: Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 30401 244196001 83 Linux No problems so far. Now I am trying to create a file system on this. # mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1 mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) /dev/sdb1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here! ??? Neither fuser, nor lsof, nor searches for anything else reveal why /dev/sdb1 could be "in use". OK, lets try to force the issue # mke2fs -F -j /dev/sdb1 mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) /dev/sdb1 is apparently in use by the system; mke2fs forced anyway. /dev/sdb1: Device or resource busy while setting up superblock If I will try "strace" the above then I can only see: stat("/dev/sdb1", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0640, st_rdev=makedev(8, 17), ...}) = 0 open("/dev/sdb1", O_RDONLY|O_EXCL) = -1 EBUSY (Device or resource busy) and I am not much wiser. It does not appear that anythying on initrd or udev is really holding to /dev/sdb or /dev/sdb1, or at least not in some obvious manner. Actually I started trying to add that disk to LVM, and with no partitioning at all, but 'pvcreate' also refuses to do anythning because this disk is "busy" (while 'fdisk' was happy to oblidge). If instead of rawhide I will boot some older distro on the same hardware then 'mke2fs' does not have problems with the same partition. Any ideas what is going on here? Makes adding a disk space to an installation somewhat "interesting". Oh, this disk shows as /dev/sdb as this is a SATA device. Michal

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FC6Pre nfs install fails
by Ernest L. Williams Jr. 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

Hi, Somewhere around 70% into the install process some file conflict results and installation halts. I am not sure what package is having the problem. I selected all options for all packages. Basically, I am trying to install everything. What next? Start over? Thanks, Ernest

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How to get updates for FC6 Pre-Release
by Ernest L. Williams Jr. 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

Hi, I am now on my way for testing the FC6-pre-release. Can someone give me instructions on how to get updates from the correct Repos? Of course, I will want to get Fedora Extras also. Should we use pup or yum? Or maybe the update client tool is just user preference, hmm? I have been using mainly "pup" under FC5. Thanks, Ernest

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