Fedora 7 - I'm confused!

[nick.stumpos]

Oh come on folks lets not get into this again, kona to get the text boot just remove the rhgb from the kernel line in your grub.conf

[kona0197]

Geez - I wasn't asking to be spoon fed. It just easier to ask those who have already done something on how to do it. A bit more understanding seems to be in order.

Anyhow...

[Reindeer]

Originally Posted by leigh123@linux

Or if you want to learn howto use linux properly try this guide

http://www.fedoraguide.info/index.php/Fedora7

Leigh, thank you.
The guide has already come in handy.
Didn't know it existed. Very cool.
I'm a Solaris Sysadmin learning Linux.
There is always more to learn, isn't there?
Do you have screenshots of Beryl and Emerald running?
I'm trying to decide if I want to use that interface.
Thanks.

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by Reindeer

Leigh, thank you.
The guide has already come in handy.
Didn't know it existed. Very cool.
I'm a Solaris Sysadmin learning Linux.
There is always more to learn, isn't there?
Do you have screenshots of Beryl and Emerald running?
I'm trying to decide if I want to use that interface.
Thanks.

I no longer use beryl ( all beryl development stopped six months ago when the project was retired ) and have replaced it with compiz-fusion ( beryl and compiz merged to form compiz-fusion )

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...d.php?t=159056


screenshots of compiz-fusion

P.S there is always more to learn ( I am still learning )

[kona0197]

Guys - I thought I had this one nailed but NTFS read/write support is not working upon boot. Here is a copy of my fstab file. What am I doing wrong?

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0 auto 0 0

[johannlo]

It depends which NTFS driver you are using.

Using NTFS-3g package my fstab reads

/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g rw,defaults,0 0

if you installed ntfs3g, you need to specify it like above (not plain ntfs)

[kona0197]

Speaking of partitioning...

I was trying to shrink all my partitions on this drive so that I can try another flavor of Linux. However Gparted does not recognize the partition that Fedora set up. Ideas on how to shrink the Fedora partition?

[Dan]

Morning, Kona.

Try here. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e...ger/index.html

That should tell you far more than you ever wanted to know about LVM partitions ... including how to shrink one.


Dan

How to Shrink partitions using Gparted got some good tips there

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by Demz

How to Shrink partitions using Gparted got some good tips there

Gparted doesn't recognize LVM so it is totally useless for this purpose .

Kona try this link

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...hrink+lvm+root

[kona0197]

Dan - I tried the command to resize a LVM. It didn't recognize the command. Any ideas?

[kona0197]

Leigh - thanks for the link but that looks way over my head so I'll wait till I get a bigger hard drive and then I'll partition it out and re-install F7.

[Dan]

Nice link, Leigh. I missed that one. Must have been packing. <....>

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by kona0197

Leigh - thanks for the link but that looks way over my head so I'll wait till I get a bigger hard drive and then I'll partition it out and re-install F7.

Try using normal partitions ( plain EXT3 ) next time you install instead of LVM as they are easier to work with .
LVM is for multi disk servers and is of little use on a single disk desktop .

[kona0197]

Thanks - will do.