In an attempt to diagnose a friends HP Deskjet D1420, Im running a CentOS 6.10 LiveDVD. The readily visible symptom is that it will accept a job and claim to be printing it, but nothing ever gets printed, not even a test page. The same happens on ..
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Ive been trying to backup the root partition of my F33 installation. To that end, Im running a C7 live CD. C7 wont mount the partition. tune2fs likes it, but[root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/a5mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superbl..
Im currently running CentOS 8 off an SD card. It, unlike F32, lets me use my monitors full 1440 x 900.Both seem to use defaults and EDID, but F32 gets it wrong and saddles me with 640 x 480when I can find the incantation to have it run at all. The configurat..
Im trying to install CentOS 8 from a CD burned with CentOS-8-2-2004-x86_64-boot , to an SD card in a USB SD card reader.The installer appears not to notice the card reader. Doing a df from tty2 also provides no notice of the card reader.Can what I..
I tried to boot a CentOS 8.2 install CD, one burned with CentOS-8-2-2004-x86_64-boot .In the setup, it persisted in telling me that ethernet thing enp0s25 was disconnected. Nyet.Twas working several seconds previous and is working now. This is a showstopp..
Ive been trying to move from CentOS 7 to fedora. My monitor is 1440×900, but fedora only believes its 640×480. Grrrr. xrandr has not helped. Ive been trying to write X configuration files to tell fedora 1440×900, but no joy. Is there a way to get X..
Normally I run CentOS 7, but I accidently booted a German Knoppix OS. Im back to CentOS 7, but now my LXterms all have hennebry@Microknoppix on top. WTF? How did that happen?How do I fix it?How do I make it not happen again?What other trouble sho..
Im trying to make my computer work with a Fedora 32 live DVD. Video issues make it either crap out or only give me 640×480. Grrrr. CentOS 7 is running just fine.I think I could make it go by booting to runlevel 3 and running startx manually. For t..
Is there a live CentOS 8?If ..
Im trying to format a 16 GB SD card to FAT32. Either it wont find the device or it gives me the titular error message.mkfs.fat /dev/sdcI have tried ejecting the drive and reinserting the card. I have tried inserting another card, checking to insure t..
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