 graysonfPremium,MVM
join:1999-07-16
Fort Lauderdale, FL
1 edit | reply to RobNyc
Re: Fedora 9 is out I dunno, it's weird. Either you fall in love with a distro and then chase down the hardware needed to stay in love, or you have hardware you like and need to go wife shopping, er...I mean distro shopping looking for what works.
I'll sit on Fedora 8 a while longer.
I did do one thing that I can't quite get working. OpenSSH v5 has chroot capability in it now. So I grabbed the Fedora 9 SRPM and built it all on Fedora 8. All built fine, except I can't seem to get the chroot thingie working. It may be SE Linux in the way though and not an OpenSSH problem.
I've been using ssh.com's freeware SSH for many years because it has had that chroot in it all along, unlike OpenSSH that has always had to have been hacked for it.
I'm looking for anyone on Fedora 9 that has that working, or of course anyone who backported it to Fedora 8 like I did.
I've been googling, but it's apparently too early yet.
Edit: It's SE Linux preventing file writes. Some sort of voodoo like policy editor can be used to fix this, but ya' gotta have a PhD to understand it. |
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graysonfPremium,MVM
join:1999-07-16
Fort Lauderdale, FL | reply to graysonf
If the pain associated with a disappointing six CD set isn't enough for you, try the 'Everything' 24 CD release.  |
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 JohnInSJPremium
join:2003-09-22
San Jose, CA
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said by ozar:I've not tried Fedora since version 2 was released. Looks at his box. Realizes it *is* FC2 (running current, self-built kernel, at least)
Sighs.
My other boxen are current, at least 
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 RobNycPremium
join:2002-03-06
New York, NY | reply to graysonf
So what are you guys doing without the nvidia driver? |
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graysonfPremium,MVM
join:1999-07-16
Fort Lauderdale, FL | said by RobNyc:So what are you guys doing without the nvidia driver? Not applicable to me, I have ATI video. |
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michaeloPremium
join:2002-12-14
Greenville, SC | reply to RobNyc
To get around the nvidia driver problem, I ended up downgrading my Xorg per the following:
»www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showth···t=188645
Ugly but allowed me to get a working nvidia driver back. Seems to be somewhat counter productive to upgrade and then have to do a parital downgrade but considering I was running I was a few versions behind to begin with I still have newer code than I started with. |
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RobNycPremium
join:2002-03-06
New York, NY
1 edit | said by michaelo:To get around the nvidia driver problem, I ended up downgrading my Xorg per the following: » www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showth···t=188645Ugly but allowed me to get a working nvidia driver back. Seems to be somewhat counter productive to upgrade and then have to do a parital downgrade but considering I was running I was a few versions behind to begin with I still have newer code than I started with. Tried it.. got kinda stuck in the rpm -e part, since it wasn't doing the whole line. But overall went good. |
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 mwcPremium
join:2005-04-11
Waterloo, ON | reply to graysonf
said by graysonf:If the pain associated with a disappointing six CD set isn't enough for you, try the 'Everything' 24 CD release. This distribution model needs to die. The only time I ever see using this is when I have a sudden need to reinstall Fedora in the middle of the arctic wilderness; and I'm sure that I'll have forgotten to bring all 24 CDs. Maybe I could put them all on one blu-ray disc?
From my experience, installing a linux distro without high speed access is a corner case, certainly not something that needs to be the focus of the installation infrastructure.
How has Fedora not woken up and smelled the "50 MB netinst image" model? |
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 rexbinaryMod KingPremium
join:2005-01-26
Plano, TX
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1 edit | said by mwc:said by graysonf:If the pain associated with a disappointing six CD set isn't enough for you, try the 'Everything' 24 CD release. This distribution model needs to die. How has Fedora not woken up and smelled the "50 MB netinst image" model? Well this wasn't their distribution model, but it's back by demand. For Fedora 8 there was only single disc Live CDs that were installable, and single install only DVDs, plus net install. There was such an outcry for full CD sets, they brought them back for Fedora 9. Why people think they need every package on CDs is beyond me.
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graysonfPremium,MVM
join:1999-07-16
Fort Lauderdale, FL | reply to mwc
said by mwc:How has Fedora not woken up and smelled the "50 MB netinst image" model? Well, yes and no. Yes, but it isn't 50MB, it's 114MB. |
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RobNycPremium
join:2002-03-06
New York, NY | did nvidia release the drivers for f9 ? yet |
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graysonfPremium,MVM
join:1999-07-16
Fort Lauderdale, FL | I have no idea check at nvidia. |
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michaeloPremium
join:2002-12-14
Greenville, SC | reply to RobNyc
The working Nvidia drivers are out now.
The following shows how to load them:
»forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.···ount=135
These seem to load ok, but I have not done any extensive testing so your mileage may vary. |
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wssddc
join:2001-08-21
Bedford, MA | There was a recent Fedora 8 kernel update with a comment, if I remember correctly, that it was syncing with Fedora 9. This kernel needs the new Nvidia drivers (the older ones won't compile). |
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RobNycPremium
join:2002-03-06
New York, NY | reply to graysonf
Reinstalled fedora 9 this friday.. loved running it this weekend, but been having problems with Sun Java.. fedora 9 runs so fast |
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