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The big picture is I'm wanting to boot centos 7 and install kvm. So far I've created on this new laptop a big, empty partition; in the BIOS enabled legacy booting and disabled UEFI; also in BIOS under Legacy Boot Order set "USB diskette on key/USB hard disk" on second priority. I've tried to boot from a usb thumbdrive three times and it failed all three times. I'm

The big picture is I'm wanting to boot centos 7 and install kvm. So far I've created on this new laptop a big, empty partition; in the BIOS enabled legacy booting and disabled UEFI; also in BIOS under Legacy Boot Order set "USB diskette on key/USB hard disk" on second priority. I've tried to boot from a usb thumbdrive three times and it failed all three times. I'm

On 12/13/2015 05:00 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 16:48:25 -0500 ken wrote: > >> So far I've created on this new laptop a big, empty partition; in >> the BIOS enabled legacy booting and disabled UEFI; also in BIOS >> under Legacy Boot Order set "USB diskette on key/USB hard disk" on >> second priority. I've tried to boot from a usb

On 12/13/2015 05:00 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 16:48:25 -0500 ken wrote: > >> So far I've created on this new laptop a big, empty partition; in >> the BIOS enabled legacy booting and disabled UEFI; also in BIOS >> under Legacy Boot Order set "USB diskette on key/USB hard disk" on >> second priority. I've tried to boot from a usb

On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 16:48:25 -0500 ken wrote: > So far I've created on this new laptop a big, empty partition; in the > BIOS enabled legacy booting and disabled UEFI; also in BIOS under Legacy > Boot Order set "USB diskette on key/USB hard disk" on second priority. > I've tried to boot from a usb thumbdrive three times and it failed all > three times. I'm

On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 16:48:25 -0500 ken wrote: > So far I've created on this new laptop a big, empty partition; in the > BIOS enabled legacy booting and disabled UEFI; also in BIOS under Legacy > Boot Order set "USB diskette on key/USB hard disk" on second priority. > I've tried to boot from a usb thumbdrive three times and it failed all > three times. I'm

Personal preference. Who uses blu ray? Who uses DVDs? Anyway. (Sent from iPhone, so please accept my apologies in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors.) > On Aug 20, 2015, at 6:21 AM, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote: > >> On 08/20/2015 07:04 AM, Hal Wigoda wrote: >> I wouldn't outfit a computer with blu-ray >> >> (Sent from iPhone, so

On 2016-03-08, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote: > On 03/08/2016 06:49 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2016-03-07, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote: >>> Weird. There seems to be quite a bit of software missing from C7.2, >>> gnome-applets being one of them. Or has it been moved or renamed or >>> otherwise obscured? >>> >>>

Damjan, Glad to hear that worked for you. I don't know if the gnome people can make this very much easier. Different version of different linux distros might invoke hibernate differently. How would they know which one to map to the lid button? Also, some people might want to invoke sleep rather than hibernate. If there were system commands which were persistent over all distros and

On 08/20/2015 07:04 AM, Hal Wigoda wrote: > I wouldn't outfit a computer with blu-ray > > (Sent from iPhone, so please accept my apologies in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors.) > >> On Aug 20, 2015, at 5:53 AM, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote: >> >> One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs Blu-Ray. I've

> On 13 Mar 2015, at 18:13, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote: > >> On 03/13/2015 01:06 PM, Blake Hudson wrote: >> ken wrote on 3/13/2015 11:36 AM: >>> # rpm -q sendmail logwatch >>> sendmail-8.13.8-8.1.el5_7 >>> logwatch-7.3-10.el5 >>> >>> One host sends just one email per day, the daily logwatch report. >>>

On 05/11/2017 06:49 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: >> Am 11.05.2017 um 22:26 schrieb ken <gebser at mousecar.com>: >> >> pdftk used to be in a repo... or maybe it still is, but I don't know which one. Anyone know? >> > an old one is in the "dead" rpmforge repo. > At https://www.pdflabs.com/docs/install-pdftk-on-redhat-or-centos/ they have version 2.0

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 8:18 AM, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote: > Currently I don't actually need more speed. This is already a fairly peppy > laptop... like right now the load is about 2%. If it was any lower, I could > almost turn this machine off and still run everything. :) Ah but > seriously, I'd rather have the speed cranked down and save the battery. >

On 12/20/2016 06:08 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-12-19, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote: >> Last night installed the latest, firefox-45.6.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64. >> Fired it up this morning and within the first hour it's crashed three >> times. That comes to it being usable for about five minutes before it >> crashes. >> >> Anyone

W dniu 20.08.2015 o 13:26, Mauricio Tavares pisze: > On Aug 20, 2015 6:54 AM, "ken" <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote: >> >> One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs > Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling > reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray? > First of all, is this going

On 03/08/2016 06:49 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-03-07, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote: >> Weird. There seems to be quite a bit of software missing from C7.2, >> gnome-applets being one of them. Or has it been moved or renamed or >> otherwise obscured? >> >> tia > > Since gnome-panel and 'flashback' mode have been removed from

W dniu 20.08.2015 o 13:52, Mauricio Tavares pisze: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Marcin Trendota <moonwolf.rh at gmail.com> wrote: >> W dniu 20.08.2015 o 13:26, Mauricio Tavares pisze: >>> On Aug 20, 2015 6:54 AM, "ken" <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is

Vanhorn, Mike wrote: > On 5/17/17, 12:03 PM, "CentOS on behalf of ken" <centos-bounces at centos.org > on behalf of gebser at mousecar.com> wrote: > >>An entire filesystem (~180g) needs to be copied from one local linux >>machine to another. Since both systems are on the same local subnet, >>there's no need for encryption. >> >>I've

On Thu, 11 May 2017, ken wrote: > On 05/11/2017 07:07 PM, ken wrote: >> On 05/11/2017 06:49 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: >>>> Am 11.05.2017 um 22:26 schrieb ken <gebser at mousecar.com>: >>>> >>>> pdftk used to be in a repo... or maybe it still is, but I don't know >>>> which one. Anyone know? >>>> >>> an old

On 05/11/2017 07:07 PM, ken wrote: > On 05/11/2017 06:49 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: >>> Am 11.05.2017 um 22:26 schrieb ken <gebser at mousecar.com>: >>> >>> pdftk used to be in a repo... or maybe it still is, but I don't know >>> which one. Anyone know? >>> >> an old one is in the "dead" rpmforge repo. >> > > At