The Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 upgrade follows the general procedure outlined on the first Fedora Core upgrade page: RedHat Fedora: Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 Upgrade . If you have not already upgraded to F7 please visit RedHat Fedora: Fedora Core 6 to Fedora 7 upgrade. page first before going up to FC8.
You will only need to replace step #8 with the below step:
8 ) Install fedora-relese either using the RPM’s in step 2) below or use another mirror from the fedora.redhat.com site. You can also use the mirrors from fedoralegacy.org if your distribution is too old.
[ THE UPGRADE PROCESS ]
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July 13th, 2008 | Posted in NIX Posts | No Comments
The Fedora Core 6 to Fedora 7 upgrade follows the general procedure outlined on the first Fedora Core upgrade page: RedHat Fedora: Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 Upgrade . If you have not already upgraded to FC6 please visit RedHat Fedora: Fedora Core 5 to Fedora Core 6 upgrade. page first before going up to FC7.
You will only need to replace step #8 with the below step: 8 ) Install fedora-relese either using http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-7-3.noarch.rpm or use another mirror from the fedora.redhat.com site. You can also use the mirrors from fedoralegacy.org if your distribution is too old.
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July 13th, 2008 | Posted in NIX Posts | No Comments
The Fedora Core 5 to Fedora Core 6 upgrade follows the general procedure outlined on the first Fedora Core upgrade page: RedHat Fedora: Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 Upgrade . If you have not already upgraded to FC5 please visit RedHat Fedora: Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 5 upgrade. page first before going up to FC6.
You will only need to replace step #8 with the below step:
8 ) Install fedora-relese either using http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-6-4.noarch.rpm or use another mirror from the fedora.redhat.com site. You can also use the mirrors from fedoralegacy.org if your distribution is too old.
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July 13th, 2008 | Posted in NIX Posts | No Comments
The upgrade here really hasn’t changed from the previous ones all that much and the Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 5 upgrade is nearly identical to the first upgrade outlined in: RedHat Fedora: Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 Upgrade . If you have not already upgraded to FC4 please visit RedHat Fedora: Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4 upgrade. page first before going up to FC5.
You will only need to replace step #8 with the below step: 8 ) Install fedora-relese either using http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-4-2.noarch.rpm or use another mirror from the fedora.redhat.com site. You can also use the mirrors from fedoralegacy.org if your distribution is too old.
We are also going to save the output of the upgrade process into a log file in case we need to analyze for more details.
THE UPGRADE PROCESS
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July 7th, 2008 | Posted in NIX Posts | No Comments
The procedure for this upgrade follows the same steps outlined in: RedHat Fedora: Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 Upgrade with the exception of the below step. If you have not already upgraded to FC3 please visit RedHat Fedora: Fedora Core 2 to Fedora Core 3 upgrade. page first before going up to FC4.
You will only need to replace step #8 with the below step: 8 ) Install fedora-relese either using http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-4-2.noarch.rpm or http://fedora.osmirror.nl/core/4/ppc/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-4-2.noarch.rpm or use another mirror from the fedora.redhat.com site. For more legacy mirrors, use the instructions on the Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 upgrade above.
BASIC STEPS
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July 6th, 2008 | Posted in NIX Posts | No Comments
Now that you are at Fedora Core 2 you can jump to Fedora Core 3 as the next step. For those of you who have been using Fedora Core 2 and have not read Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 Upgrade please take a look. The procedures here are identical except for some minor changes.
You should pay attention to the versions in the article replacing 2 for 3 and 1 for 2 (In that order). Otherwise the general procedure on the above link is the same except for the following item:
8 ) Install fedora-relese either using http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-3-8.i386.rpm or use another mirror from the fedora.redhat.com site. You can also use the mirrors from fedoralegacy.org if your distribution is too old as well as refer to the first upgrade from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 above for more in legacy links.
July 4th, 2008 | Posted in NIX Posts | No Comments
For those of you still stuck in the old archeic version of Fedora Core 4 or older, perhaps because you have lot’s of files stored and documents and do not wish to reinstall the entire OS: it may be time to consider an upgrade. Thankfully there is a way to do this from Fedora Core 1 to the latest Fedora available. The only drawback it that it may take a while. You would need to upgrade through each version to the latest Fedora which can take a very long time.
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July 4th, 2008 | Posted in NIX Posts | No Comments
If you have MailScanner running in the background, one issue you can run into is duplicate emails. Try the below to see if it fixes your issue:
PROBLEM
Receiving duplicate or repeating e-mails in your inbox.
SOLUTION
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June 26th, 2008 | Posted in NIX Posts | No Comments
Linux OS does a superb job of handling sound. Since early on it will even be configured out of the box. Unfortunately, keeping it that way is an entirely separate matter. Especially when going through multiple upgrades or installing other packages possibly even applications that may alter your sound behaviour strange things may start to happen with your sound. Take for instance this issue:
PROBLEM
unix_connect: can’t connect to server (unix:/tmp/ksocket-root/lhs.localhostservers-11ca-43c04c25)
ALSA lib conf.c:1592:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:51:23:No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:2837:(snd_config_hook_load) /etc/alsa/cards/aliases.conf may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:2700:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:1969:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Invalid type for PCM default definition (id: default, value: cards.pcm.default)
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: default can’t be opened for playback (Invalid argument)
SOLUTION
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June 26th, 2008 | Posted in NIX Posts | No Comments
Today I decided to scope out some Polish / English translators as they do come in handy from time to time. Trying not to look like a complete wreck, I decided to check how far technology has progressed in the last couple of years and find a good English to Polish translator. I'm pretty sure my Polish writing is impecable after 20 years of not having written in it but I like to be on the safe side and I didn't want to take any unnecessary chances. To that end, I went out to ferret for a good web translator to use. I tried something simple to use to see how well the engines would translate text and below is a table with the results:
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March 31st, 2008 | Posted in Assorted Nuts | No Comments
