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howto download i686 kernel on x86_64 box
by Mike Wright 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hi all, I'm running f14-x86_64 but have a need for a f14.i686 kernel package (kernel-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686). I'd also like to unpack it but not into its default locations. That leaves me with two questions: How do I download it without installing it? How do I unpack it into a safe location (such as /test)? Been fiddling with yum and had no luck. TIA, Mike Wright

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updating initrd.img file of the pxe installation files
by Eric Doutreleau 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hi i m trying to install f13 on a computer with cobbler and pxe but when i boot the network card is not detected. i would like to update the initrd image file with updated modules Does anybody have a pointer on how to do that? Thanks in advance for any help -- Eric Doutreleau

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How to enable build a debuginfo package using rpmbuild locally on Fedora 14?
by yang.y.yi＠gmail.com 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hi, i need to build a rpm package with debuginfo, this is the default result on my Fedora 10, but on Fedora 14, rpmbuild didn't build a debuginfo package, it is invalid to put "%define debug_package 1" in spec file, anybody knows how to enable this? Thank in advance.

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grub on raid1 cannot mount filesystem
by Pavel Lisy 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Hello I've found strange problem in new Fedora 15. I suppose it should work. It's maybe fdisk or grub problem. Normaly I have this (working) multiboot solution on my home PC: On first small (100MB) partition are grub1 files only with this config (grub is installed to MBR): --- cut --- title Fedora 15 root (hd0,2) chainloader +1 title Fedora 14 root (hd0,4) chainloader +1 title Ubuntu root (hd0,5) chainloader +1 --- cut --- Grub of linux distributions is installed into their partitions I want make the same on mirrored environment 2 HD in mirror (raid1): size id OS/SW FS 1. part 200MB fd grub ext4 2. part 8GB 82 SWAP swap 3. part 10 GB fd fedora 15 ext4 4. part extended 5. part 10 GB fd fedora 14 ext4 6. part 10 GB fd ubuntu ext4 ... last part rest. of disk - LVM I've installed Fedora 15 on /dev/md0 (/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1) /boot /dev/md1 (/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3) / grub was in MBR and everything worked. THIS WORKS: grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) When I want put grub of Fedora 15 to start of /dev/sda3 grub is complaining: THIS DOESN'T WORK: grub> root (hd0,2) grub> setup (hd0,2) Error 17: cannot mount selected partition Without mirror (raid1) it works. With raid1 it works only on first partition. Can you explain me why? Thanks in advance Pavel

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Where do yum downloaded package go
by shailesh 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

when we do yum install vlc then first it download packages and then install it...please tell me where(in which folder)it download these packages???

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Wine fonts makes html rendering on firefox and chrome much worse
by Fernando Lozano 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Hi there, Please someone help me find out how to solve this problem: for some weeks I have been experiencing problems with fonts on Firefox and Chrome when acessing two different webmail systems. At first I though the problem was caused by remi RPMs I used to install Firefox 4 on Fedora 14. I installed Fedora 15 and everything was fine for a while, and then fonts became strange again. When firefox started having font problems, Google Chrome started also. The problem was: Bold fonts and regular fonts look almost the same. Bold fonts had a wider average character width, but were not thicker. So I got another computer, installed Fedora 15 from scratch, and compared the results. Everything fine. Updated all packages, including rpmfusion ones. Also fine. Then I noticed the new system was missing some packages I use, I guess they come from rpmfusion: gnome-mplayer and wine. After installing those, the font problem in Firefox and Chrome was back again. But this time I saved the output of rpm -qa at each step, then I compared the latest working state with the one that wasn't. I noticed there are a number of wine-*-fonts packages, and removed then (I also had to remove wine itself). Problem solved! Can anyone explain why either wine itself (or wine fonts) interfere with web browser page rendering? And how can I re-install wine without messing up with web page fonts? []s, Fernando Lozano

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