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Re: Going Fedora 12 route, probably tonight

LeeNukes — Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:34 am

Author: LeeNukes

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:34 am

sentient_one wrote:

If u mean a usb external hard drive, that is what I use now. Most distros will treat it like an internal hd and u can install grub on its mbr and boot from there.

Yes, its a Seagate External Drive. Nice black box. Turns off when not mounted etc.

I don't think I'd use it to boot from though. I know its possible, I'd just rather not.

The Nvidia driver issue is more likely due to me using the one from their website before its ready to be installed against Fedora 12.

Re: Going Fedora 12 route, probably tonight

sentient_one — Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:20 am

Author: sentient_one

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:20 am

My ati radeon card is fine under windows and most linux distros, hence the simplest answer would probably be to give fedora a miss this time round (u didn't exactly find installing the nvidia drivers a breeze for that matter)

If u mean a usb external hard drive, that is what I use now. Most distros will treat it like an internal hd and u can install grub on its mbr and boot from there.

Re: Going Fedora 12 route, probably tonight

LeeNukes — Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:04 am

Author: LeeNukes

Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:04 am

I stopped buying ATI GFX cards due to the issues I always had installing the drivers. Can't really help with this one I'm afraid as my PC doesn't have an AGP slot and the only ATI card I have is AGP.

With regards to me installing Fedora 12, I've recently bought a 500GB external Hard Drive so future upgrades should be MUCH easier and quicker.

Re: Going Fedora 12 route, probably tonight

sentient_one — Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:18 am

Author: sentient_one

Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:18 am

Whilst i really sort of like fedora and my graphics card is handled in initial generic way, attempts to install the proprietary 3d driver

sh . . . fgrlx . . . run

all looks great but on reboot -
plunged into darkness

And googling seems to suggest there are plenty who don't accomplish proprietary video driver install

Now for all that work the developers put in seems a bit silly that the project is scuppered through lack of support in this area

Re: Going Fedora 12 route, probably tonight

LeeNukes — Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:08 am

Author: LeeNukes

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:08 am

Nice spot Marty Bartfast.

I'm actually quite liking the implementation of PulseAudio in Fedora 12. I never used it in Fedora 10 and was unsure if I'd actually use the ability to raise and lower application volume but I've used it a couple of times now, mainly when playing Audio in Wine and I don't want to quit the application, I can lower the Wine volume whilst listening to YouTube or whatever in native Linux.

Re: Going Fedora 12 route, probably tonight

sentient_one — Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:30 am

Author: sentient_one

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:30 am

Yes thanks, indeed, the number they have quoted is for sha 256 not sha1 and my iso is sound (maybe a bad disk was to blame for the previous trouble). Have checked and burned it and i'm now using it. Can play online radio from rhytymbox, so i guess sound is OK and wired internet obviously. Probably worth an install proper.
ttfn

Re: Going Fedora 12 route, probably tonight

MartyBartfast — Wed Nov 18, 2009 11:23 pm

Author: MartyBartfast

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 11:23 pm

sentient_one wrote:

To be a little more specific, the sha1 i should get is:

(Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso)

5ad27455df004ee23fbc5a05dfa039a14e59956dccf4e767d493601e0bfa4001

What i actually keep getting is:

daf4b3ea2322dfee9a473099557ac
(a search for this number yields nothing ie it's not some recognised variant distro)

This explains it all: http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-websites-list@redhat.com/msg02188.html

Re: Going Fedora 12 route, probably tonight

sentient_one — Wed Nov 18, 2009 11:19 pm

Author: sentient_one

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 11:19 pm

To be a little more specific, the sha1 i should get is:

(Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso)

5ad27455df004ee23fbc5a05dfa039a14e59956dccf4e767d493601e0bfa4001

What i actually keep getting is:

daf4b3ea2322dfee9a473099557ac
(a search for this number yields nothing ie it's not some recognised variant distro)

Re: Going Fedora 12 route, probably tonight

LeeNukes — Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:26 pm

Author: LeeNukes

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:26 pm

You may find the servers are maxed out tonight, maybe try again tomorrow?

Re: Going Fedora 12 route, probably tonight

sentient_one — Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:07 pm

Author: sentient_one

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:07 pm

My two attempts to download f12 live gnome i386 resulted in iso which did not burn properly and a sha1 value which did not agree with the published one. Anyone else had problem or succeed ok (getting matching sha1s). If the latter, perhaps u could advise url?
regards

Re: Going Fedora 12 route, probably tonight

LeeNukes — Sun Nov 15, 2009 7:33 pm

Author: LeeNukes

Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 7:33 pm

Hmm, are there a lot of mirrors down tonight because my updates and yum installs are flying through many mirrors before it finds one.

Re: Going Fedora 12 route, probably tonight

1slipperyfish — Sat Nov 14, 2009 1:07 pm

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 1:07 pm

LeeNukes wrote:

Dictionary open, is that a joke?

yeah did you like that
paul

Re: Going Fedora 12 route, probably tonight

Ram — Sat Nov 14, 2009 12:05 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 12:05 pm

LeeNukes wrote:

Dictionary open, is that a joke?

No, he needs it now, after we pointed out that the kind of fish he his is spelt carp.

Re: Going Fedora 12 route, probably tonight

LeeNukes — Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:48 am

Author: LeeNukes

Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:48 am

Dictionary open, is that a joke?

Re: Going Fedora 12 route, probably tonight

1slipperyfish — Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:30 am

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:30 am

i've done it i'm living the dream
paul [/img]