pod catchers

pod catchers

[Gregory Nowak]

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Hi all.

Running Debian testing, "aptitude search pod", shows me that there are
2 pod catching clients available as packages, hpodder and podracer. I
am trying to decide which one I want to use, so I'd appreciate
opinions from folks who have used one or both. I'm looking for
something that's easy to use, and that won't require much
management. Yes, I am also aware of the fact that podracer was written
by Lorenzo from this list, however I'd appreciate non-biased opinions
please. If you don't want to clutter the list, feel free to write me
privately. Thanks.

Greg


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Re: pod catchers

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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Well, I wasn't really planning to respond to this, since I did write one
of the apps in question, but I think I can give an unbiased opinion in
this situation.

The main difference between hpodder and podracer as far as I am aware is
that podracer supports downloading podcasts distributed via bittorrent.
I had the opportunity to use hpodder some time back and found it quite
easy to use and manage at the time, and that was earlier this year, so
it has most likely improved since then.  There are also, as I recall,
some more advanced features available in hpodder that are still lacking
in podracer.

So my unbiased opinion is that if you need podcasts that are distributed
via bittorrent then podracer is about the only app that will catch them,
although bittorrent support has been known to be unreliable at times
during some python release cycles.  If you don't need bittorrent
support, then hpodder may be more to your liking, especially if you need
some of its more advanced features such as conversion of subscription
formats from other apps, automatic tagging or file name customization
and collision detection.  Wow!  Taking a look at the hpodder site, it
looks like it rocks!  Seems that if it wasn't for bittorrent support,
podracer would be deprecated.  Sorry about that.  There's only so much
that can be done with bash. <smile>

HTH a little,
Lorenzo
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Re: pod catchers

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Greg,

Go for podracer, you'll love it. I have been using it for many months, 
and have come to rely on it. 

Chuck


On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:58:10PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> Running Debian testing, "aptitude search pod", shows me that there are
> 2 pod catching clients available as packages, hpodder and podracer. I
> am trying to decide which one I want to use, so I'd appreciate
> opinions from folks who have used one or both. I'm looking for
> something that's easy to use, and that won't require much
> management. Yes, I am also aware of the fact that podracer was written
> by Lorenzo from this list, however I'd appreciate non-biased opinions
> please. If you don't want to clutter the list, feel free to write me
> privately. Thanks.
> 
> Greg
> 
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Re: pod catchers

[Robin Williams]

One that I like is a shell script called podget. I'm a poor Linux user but I 
found it very easy to figure out. You just add the url of the feeds to a 
file and specify how you want your folder structure.
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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 12:58 AM
Subject: pod catchers


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> Hi all.
>
> Running Debian testing, "aptitude search pod", shows me that there are
> 2 pod catching clients available as packages, hpodder and podracer. I
> am trying to decide which one I want to use, so I'd appreciate
> opinions from folks who have used one or both. I'm looking for
> something that's easy to use, and that won't require much
> management. Yes, I am also aware of the fact that podracer was written
> by Lorenzo from this list, however I'd appreciate non-biased opinions
> please. If you don't want to clutter the list, feel free to write me
> privately. Thanks.
>
> Greg
>
>
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more FC6 installation blues

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

Last night and this afternoon, I tried to install FC6 via the Internet.  I
used the rescue CD for booting.  I used www.speakupmodified.org for the site
and cdroms.html for the directory.  I went through the partitioning process,
choosing the boot loader, selecting dhcp, and setting the root password.
Then, I got this message:

Error

Unable to read package metadata.  This may be due to a missing repodata
directory.  Please ensure that your install treee has been correctly
generated.  Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository:
anaconda-base-200612160229.i386

Abort

I have also tried installing from a partition on the hard drive.  With the
CD iso images, I got the missing package problem I got with the CD's I used
last week.  (I forget which package, but I doubt it matters.) I've tried
using the DVD iso image, as well as the dd command output from it; in both
instances, I was told that the CD images could not be found.  (I guess the
rescue CD wants a only CD images, at least on a hard drive.)

I have looked at both the FC6 installation guide and the FC3 on for us
Speakup folks.  I saw nothing in either place indicating anything wrong I
may have done.  I do not yet have a usb drive or flash device.  Anyway, as
always, I'll appreciate any help.  If somebody knows there's no help to be
had (knows, not merely supposes), I'll appreciate knowing that, though of
course I won't like it.  Thanks!

Al

Re: more FC6 installation blues

[Janina Sajka]

Albert E. Sten-Clanton writes:
> Last night and this afternoon, I tried to install FC6 via the Internet.  I
> used the rescue CD for booting.  I used www.speakupmodified.org for the site
> and cdroms.html for the directory.

Interesting, because that's not a directory, it's a file.
 
> I went through the partitioning process,
> choosing the boot loader, selecting dhcp, and setting the root password.
> Then, I got this message:
> 
> Error
> 
> Unable to read package metadata.  This may be due to a missing repodata
> directory.  Please ensure that your install treee has been correctly
> generated.  Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository:
> anaconda-base-200612160229.i386
> 
> Abort
> 
> I have also tried installing from a partition on the hard drive.  With the
> CD iso images, I got the missing package problem I got with the CD's I used
> last week.  (I forget which package, but I doubt it matters.) I've tried
> using the DVD iso image, as well as the dd command output from it; in both
> instances, I was told that the CD images could not be found.  (I guess the
> rescue CD wants a only CD images, at least on a hard drive.)
> 
> I have looked at both the FC6 installation guide and the FC3 on for us
> Speakup folks.  I saw nothing in either place indicating anything wrong I
> may have done.  I do not yet have a usb drive or flash device.  Anyway, as
> always, I'll appreciate any help.  If somebody knows there's no help to be
> had (knows, not merely supposes), I'll appreciate knowing that, though of
> course I won't like it.  Thanks!
> 
> Al
> 
> 
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Re: more FC6 installation blues

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

> Interesting, because that's not a directory, it's a file.

What is the directory, or how would I get it?  I find nothing on the home
page to tell me.  Thanks!

Al

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: more FC6 installation blues


> Albert E. Sten-Clanton writes:
> > Last night and this afternoon, I tried to install FC6 via the Internet.
I
> > used the rescue CD for booting.  I used www.speakupmodified.org for the
site
> > and cdroms.html for the directory.
>
> Interesting, because that's not a directory, it's a file.
>
> > I went through the partitioning process,
> > choosing the boot loader, selecting dhcp, and setting the root password.
> > Then, I got this message:
> >
> > Error
> >
> > Unable to read package metadata.  This may be due to a missing repodata
> > directory.  Please ensure that your install treee has been correctly
> > generated.  Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository:
> > anaconda-base-200612160229.i386
> >
> > Abort
> >
> > I have also tried installing from a partition on the hard drive.  With
the
> > CD iso images, I got the missing package problem I got with the CD's I
used
> > last week.  (I forget which package, but I doubt it matters.) I've tried
> > using the DVD iso image, as well as the dd command output from it; in
both
> > instances, I was told that the CD images could not be found.  (I guess
the
> > rescue CD wants a only CD images, at least on a hard drive.)
> >
> > I have looked at both the FC6 installation guide and the FC3 on for us
> > Speakup folks.  I saw nothing in either place indicating anything wrong
I
> > may have done.  I do not yet have a usb drive or flash device.  Anyway,
as
> > always, I'll appreciate any help.  If somebody knows there's no help to
be
> > had (knows, not merely supposes), I'll appreciate knowing that, though
of
> > course I won't like it.  Thanks!
> >
> > Al
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
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>
> Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.595.7777
> Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com
>
> Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and
Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.
>
> Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG)
> janina@freestandards.org http://a11y.org
>
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>
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Re: more FC6 installation blues

[Janina Sajka]

Albert E. Sten-Clanton writes:
> > Interesting, because that's not a directory, it's a file.
> 
> What is the directory, or how would I get it?  I find nothing on the home
> page to tell me.  Thanks!

We don't provide one. We only provide downloadable images.

Janina

> 
> Al
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 6:08 PM
> Subject: Re: more FC6 installation blues
> 
> 
> > Albert E. Sten-Clanton writes:
> > > Last night and this afternoon, I tried to install FC6 via the Internet.
> I
> > > used the rescue CD for booting.  I used www.speakupmodified.org for the
> site
> > > and cdroms.html for the directory.
> >
> > Interesting, because that's not a directory, it's a file.
> >
> > > I went through the partitioning process,
> > > choosing the boot loader, selecting dhcp, and setting the root password.
> > > Then, I got this message:
> > >
> > > Error
> > >
> > > Unable to read package metadata.  This may be due to a missing repodata
> > > directory.  Please ensure that your install treee has been correctly
> > > generated.  Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository:
> > > anaconda-base-200612160229.i386
> > >
> > > Abort
> > >
> > > I have also tried installing from a partition on the hard drive.  With
> the
> > > CD iso images, I got the missing package problem I got with the CD's I
> used
> > > last week.  (I forget which package, but I doubt it matters.) I've tried
> > > using the DVD iso image, as well as the dd command output from it; in
> both
> > > instances, I was told that the CD images could not be found.  (I guess
> the
> > > rescue CD wants a only CD images, at least on a hard drive.)
> > >
> > > I have looked at both the FC6 installation guide and the FC3 on for us
> > > Speakup folks.  I saw nothing in either place indicating anything wrong
> I
> > > may have done.  I do not yet have a usb drive or flash device.  Anyway,
> as
> > > always, I'll appreciate any help.  If somebody knows there's no help to
> be
> > > had (knows, not merely supposes), I'll appreciate knowing that, though
> of
> > > course I won't like it.  Thanks!
> > >
> > > Al
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Speakup mailing list
> > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> > -- 
> >
> > Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.595.7777
> > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com
> >
> > Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and
> Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.
> >
> > Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG)
> > janina@freestandards.org http://a11y.org
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> 
> 
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Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://CapitalAccessibility.Com

Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina@freestandards.org		http://a11y.org

Re: more FC6 installation blues

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

> We don't provide one. We only provide downloadable images.

Any thoughts on why I (and apparently others) have been unable to install
using the CD images?  As noted before, I've tried both CD's and using the
images on a hard drive partition set aside for that.  I didn't have this
kind of trouble with the FC3 Cd's I used in two classes last spring.  (The
problems I did have then don't matter here and were easy to explain.) I'm
just trying to get this right.

Al

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: more FC6 installation blues


> Albert E. Sten-Clanton writes:
> > > Interesting, because that's not a directory, it's a file.
> >
> > What is the directory, or how would I get it?  I find nothing on the
home
> > page to tell me.  Thanks!
>
> We don't provide one. We only provide downloadable images.
>
> Janina
>
> >
> > Al
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 6:08 PM
> > Subject: Re: more FC6 installation blues
> >
> >
> > > Albert E. Sten-Clanton writes:
> > > > Last night and this afternoon, I tried to install FC6 via the
Internet.
> > I
> > > > used the rescue CD for booting.  I used www.speakupmodified.org for
the
> > site
> > > > and cdroms.html for the directory.
> > >
> > > Interesting, because that's not a directory, it's a file.
> > >
> > > > I went through the partitioning process,
> > > > choosing the boot loader, selecting dhcp, and setting the root
password.
> > > > Then, I got this message:
> > > >
> > > > Error
> > > >
> > > > Unable to read package metadata.  This may be due to a missing
repodata
> > > > directory.  Please ensure that your install treee has been correctly
> > > > generated.  Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository:
> > > > anaconda-base-200612160229.i386
> > > >
> > > > Abort
> > > >
> > > > I have also tried installing from a partition on the hard drive.
With
> > the
> > > > CD iso images, I got the missing package problem I got with the CD's
I
> > used
> > > > last week.  (I forget which package, but I doubt it matters.) I've
tried
> > > > using the DVD iso image, as well as the dd command output from it;
in
> > both
> > > > instances, I was told that the CD images could not be found.  (I
guess
> > the
> > > > rescue CD wants a only CD images, at least on a hard drive.)
> > > >
> > > > I have looked at both the FC6 installation guide and the FC3 on for
us
> > > > Speakup folks.  I saw nothing in either place indicating anything
wrong
> > I
> > > > may have done.  I do not yet have a usb drive or flash device.
Anyway,
> > as
> > > > always, I'll appreciate any help.  If somebody knows there's no help
to
> > be
> > > > had (knows, not merely supposes), I'll appreciate knowing that,
though
> > of
> > > > course I won't like it.  Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > Al
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Speakup mailing list
> > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > >
> > > -- 
> > >
> > > Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.595.7777
> > > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com
> > >
> > > Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and
> > Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.
> > >
> > > Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG)
> > > janina@freestandards.org http://a11y.org
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Speakup mailing list
> > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > >
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> Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com
>
> Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and
Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.
>
> Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG)
> janina@freestandards.org http://a11y.org
>
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Re: more FC6 installation blues

[Janina Sajka]

Albert E. Sten-Clanton writes:
> > We don't provide one. We only provide downloadable images.
> 
> Any thoughts on why I (and apparently others) have been unable to install
> using the CD images?

Sorry, but it's a mystery to us as well. Some people have problems,
others do not.

May I suggest trying the stock Fedora distribution? You can actually use
telnet, and you can actually install over http, if you wish, though I
wouldn't recommend the latter unless you have a very fast pipe to the net.You'll need two computers to do a telnet install. Once you get the stock FC6 up, it's now quite trivial to update to a SpeakupModified kernel using yum.

hth.

Janina

Re: more FC6 installation blues

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

> Sorry, but it's a mystery to us as well. Some people have problems,
> others do not.

Not good news, but thank you for letting me know that.  Thanks also for your
suggestion.

Al

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: more FC6 installation blues


> Albert E. Sten-Clanton writes:
> > > We don't provide one. We only provide downloadable images.
> >
> > Any thoughts on why I (and apparently others) have been unable to
install
> > using the CD images?
>
> Sorry, but it's a mystery to us as well. Some people have problems,
> others do not.
>
> May I suggest trying the stock Fedora distribution? You can actually use
> telnet, and you can actually install over http, if you wish, though I
> wouldn't recommend the latter unless you have a very fast pipe to the
net.You'll need two computers to do a telnet install. Once you get the stock
FC6 up, it's now quite trivial to update to a SpeakupModified kernel using
yum.
>
> hth.
>
> Janina
>
> _______________________________________________
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>
>
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>
>

RE: more FC6 installation blues

[Lists]

Hi,

I have had the exact same problems as below from both the DVD and individual
CD's.

Paul. 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Albert E. Sten-Clanton
Sent: 20 December 2006 22:32
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: more FC6 installation blues

Last night and this afternoon, I tried to install FC6 via the Internet.  I
used the rescue CD for booting.  I used www.speakupmodified.org for the site
and cdroms.html for the directory.  I went through the partitioning process,
choosing the boot loader, selecting dhcp, and setting the root password.
Then, I got this message:

Error

Unable to read package metadata.  This may be due to a missing repodata
directory.  Please ensure that your install treee has been correctly
generated.  Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository:
anaconda-base-200612160229.i386

Abort

I have also tried installing from a partition on the hard drive.  With the
CD iso images, I got the missing package problem I got with the CD's I used
last week.  (I forget which package, but I doubt it matters.) I've tried
using the DVD iso image, as well as the dd command output from it; in both
instances, I was told that the CD images could not be found.  (I guess the
rescue CD wants a only CD images, at least on a hard drive.)

I have looked at both the FC6 installation guide and the FC3 on for us
Speakup folks.  I saw nothing in either place indicating anything wrong I
may have done.  I do not yet have a usb drive or flash device.  Anyway, as
always, I'll appreciate any help.  If somebody knows there's no help to be
had (knows, not merely supposes), I'll appreciate knowing that, though of
course I won't like it.  Thanks!

Al


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more FC6 installation blues

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

Last night and this afternoon, I tried to install FC6 via the Internet.  I
used the rescue CD for booting.  I used
www.speakupmodified.org
for the site
and cdroms.html for the directory.  I went through the partitioning process,
choosing the boot loader, selecting dhcp, and setting the root password.
Then, I got this message:

Error

Unable to read package metadata.  This may be due to a missing repodata
directory.  Please ensure that your install treee has been correctly
generated.  Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository:
anaconda-base-200612160229.i386

Abort

I have also tried installing from a partition on the hard drive.  With the
CD iso images, I got the missing package problem I got with the CD's I used
last week.  (I forget which package, but I doubt it matters.) I've tried
using the DVD iso image, as well as the dd command output from it; in both
instances, I was told that the CD images could not be found.  (I guess the
rescue CD wants a only CD images, at least on a hard drive.)

I have looked at both the FC6 installation guide and the FC3 on for us
Speakup folks.  I saw nothing in either place indicating anything wrong I
may have done.  I do not yet have a usb drive or flash device.  Anyway, as
always, I'll appreciate any help.  If somebody knows there's no help to be
had (knows, not merely supposes), I'll appreciate knowing that, though of
course I won't like it.  Thanks!

Al

p.s.  I'm sorry if this shows up twice, but I got a bounce message alleging that my earlier one was sent to too may recipients.

re: more fc6 installation blues

[Jude DaShiell]

With verizon.net at least and I suspect other dsl providers usually most 
internet access is available with dhcp alone.  However if I neglect to run 
pon dsl-provider and log into verizon.net html access isn't available. 
So was the fc6 install try done using only ftp or was it done with some 
form of web browser?  If wget was used by something somewhere in the 
process that may have been why the download didn't work.

Re: more fc6 installation blues

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

I used askmethod at the boot prompt.  When the installer gave me the choice
of installation sources, I chose http.  The installer had field for Web site
and for directory, so I put www.speakupmodified.org in the first of these
fields and cdroms.html in the second.  My provider is verizon.net.  I have
not had access trouble in normal use.  (For what it's worth, I do find that
mere FTP doesn't seem to find the FTP sites I want, whereas NCFTP does.
I've found that with FC2 NCFTP would allow me to use the full path to the
directory I want, but with GRML I can only go to the site, and must change
directores only after getting there.)

Thanks for your thoughts.  If there's something more I can do, I'll
appreciate that info.

Al
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From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 11:22 AM
Subject: re: more fc6 installation blues


> With verizon.net at least and I suspect other dsl providers usually most
> internet access is available with dhcp alone.  However if I neglect to run
> pon dsl-provider and log into verizon.net html access isn't available.
> So was the fc6 install try done using only ftp or was it done with some
> form of web browser?  If wget was used by something somewhere in the
> process that may have been why the download didn't work.
>
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re: more fc6 installation blues

[Jude DaShiell]

I'm curious about two things and should maybe be curious about more.  For 
anyone else having installation problems with this distribution, what 
company made your computer and what model is the computer?  The second 
thing I'm curious about is are you using any kind of drive sled which 
turns your hard drive into a removeable hard drive? The last check I ran 
using sha1sum -c SHA1SUM only complained that it couldn't find the dvd 
image and said all other files were okay.  I could sacrafice myself and 
download the dvd image too and do the checks again and then try another 
burn and install.  I'll try a burn and install before I do that download 
though and on another system other than this Dell.  If that succeeds 
though it points at sha1sum modifying isos if it runs into a warning or 
error exit status.  That would be very bad news and I'm running this from 
debian right now.  I will be very surprised if an install does succeed 
only as a result of me downloading the dvd image though.

Re: more fc6 installation blues

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

> I'm curious about two things and should maybe be curious about more.  For
> anyone else having installation problems with this distribution, what
company made your computer and what model is the computer?  The second
> thing I'm curious about is are you using any kind of drive sled which
turns your hard drive into a removeable hard drive? The last check I ran
using sha1sum -c SHA1SUM only complained that it couldn't find the dvd
> image and said all other files were okay.

My computer was put together at the store.  I don't know what companies made
its parts.  An assembly program I copied from a book told me that the
processor is genuine intel.

It does not have a drive sled.  It has one hard drive, and I've try my
installs with either images in a partition on that drive or from CD's.  All
the images I used for these attempts passed the sha1sum test without any
warnings, and almost all the CD's burned from many of them passed both that
and the media check that kicks in early in the installation process.

I hope I've addressed what you're looking for.

Al
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From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 1:09 PM
Subject: re: more fc6 installation blues


> I'm curious about two things and should maybe be curious about more.  For
> anyone else having installation problems with this distribution, what
> company made your computer and what model is the computer?  The second
> thing I'm curious about is are you using any kind of drive sled which
> turns your hard drive into a removeable hard drive? The last check I ran
> using sha1sum -c SHA1SUM only complained that it couldn't find the dvd
> image and said all other files were okay.  I could sacrafice myself and
> download the dvd image too and do the checks again and then try another
> burn and install.  I'll try a burn and install before I do that download
> though and on another system other than this Dell.  If that succeeds
> though it points at sha1sum modifying isos if it runs into a warning or
> error exit status.  That would be very bad news and I'm running this from
> debian right now.  I will be very surprised if an install does succeed
> only as a result of me downloading the dvd image though.
>
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re: more fc6 installation blues

[Jude DaShiell]

Albert, thanks much information you provided has provided as many useful 
answers as you could possibly provide. The cmos header information may 
provide you with some more useful information.  If you get a Linux 
installed or try again with some form of fc6 speakup disks maybe try using 
acpi=force as one of the boot parameters.  It could be an old acpi is 
being blocked from running by default and acpi=force will clear that and 
maybe give fc6 a little more information.  Perhaps using lapic as another 
boot parameter may improve a few things too.  As an alternative apm=on 
might be tried to substitute for acpi=force in boot parameters.  If a 
system does install you may be able to read cmos information at the top of 
/var/logs/dmesg and if the cmos information has something else to say 
other than intel I'll not be surprised.  My cmos information identifies 
this machine as a Dell.  You could get the name of the computer store 
where you bought the machine but I don't know.

Re: more fc6 installation blues

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

Thanks for your suggestions.  I also think I'd better try to read up on
them.  I expect to put GRML on the hard drive, even if it ends up being
primarily to burn FC6 CD's, so it may give me the information you suggest I
seek.

Al
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From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 6:03 PM
Subject: re: more fc6 installation blues


> Albert, thanks much information you provided has provided as many useful
> answers as you could possibly provide. The cmos header information may
> provide you with some more useful information.  If you get a Linux
> installed or try again with some form of fc6 speakup disks maybe try using
> acpi=force as one of the boot parameters.  It could be an old acpi is
> being blocked from running by default and acpi=force will clear that and
> maybe give fc6 a little more information.  Perhaps using lapic as another
> boot parameter may improve a few things too.  As an alternative apm=on
> might be tried to substitute for acpi=force in boot parameters.  If a
> system does install you may be able to read cmos information at the top of
> /var/logs/dmesg and if the cmos information has something else to say
> other than intel I'll not be surprised.  My cmos information identifies
> this machine as a Dell.  You could get the name of the computer store
> where you bought the machine but I don't know.
>
>
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