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Is it possible to do a 'clean' installation of FC5?
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| Flemming Hansen 2006-09-07, 7:44 pm |
| I'm running FC4 on a dual boot system. The pc has 2 IDE discs and one SCSI disc. Grub and Windows is
located on one IDE disc, and Linux is located on the SCSI disc.
I can not browse web-pages with Java on, and that is very important to me.
I have asked several forums without any luck, so the only solution is to do a perfectly new clean
install. I plan to switch to FC5 when I'm at it.
By clean installation I mean that I would like to wipe/format all the Linux partitions during
installation. But only the Linux partitions should be wiped and not the Windows partitions.
I will copy my personal files to DVD before the installation.
Please help me by answering these 2 questions:
1. Is this type of installation possible?
2. Is there a guide somewhere to how this can be done?
Thanks
...
Kind regards
Flemming T. Hansen
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| Spamless 2006-09-07, 7:44 pm |
| On 2006-09-07, Flemming Hansen <h@nsens.dk> wrote:
> I'm running FC4 on a dual boot system. The pc has 2 IDE discs and one SCSI disc. Grub and Windows is
> located on one IDE disc, and Linux is located on the SCSI disc.
>
> I can not browse web-pages with Java on, and that is very important to me.
> I have asked several forums without any luck, so the only solution is to do a perfectly new clean
> install. I plan to switch to FC5 when I'm at it.
Why can't you use Java? What browser are you using? What version of
the Java runtime are you using?
I use firefox and jdk1.5.0_08 (the JDK, not just the runtime - from sun)
on Fedora core2 (various upgrades and updates) on an old system (933MHz).
I'm waiting for FC6 before upgrading :-)
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| Markku Kolkka 2006-09-09, 1:26 am |
| Flemming Hansen wrote:
> I can not browse web-pages with Java on, and that is very important to
> me. I have asked several forums without any luck, so the only solution
> is to do a perfectly new clean install.
Why do you think that a clean install would help? FC5 doesn't include a
Java browser plugin. The Java installation process is the same in both
FC4 and FC5.
> By clean installation I mean that I would like to wipe/format all the
> Linux partitions during installation. But only the Linux partitions
> should be wiped and not the Windows partitions.
>
> 1. Is this type of installation possible?
Yes. Just choose the right option at the partitioning options
screen. "Create custom layout" together with "Review and modify
partitioning layout" is the safest way.
> 2. Is there a guide somewhere to how this can be done?
http://tinyurl.com/qcye6
--
Markku Kolkka
markku.kolkka@iki.fi
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| Henry Wu 2006-09-09, 1:26 am |
| Flemming Hansen wrote:
> I'm running FC4 on a dual boot system. The pc has 2 IDE discs and one SCSI
> disc. Grub and Windows is located on one IDE disc, and Linux is located on
> the SCSI disc.
>
> I can not browse web-pages with Java on, and that is very important to me.
> I have asked several forums without any luck, so the only solution is to
> do a perfectly new clean install. I plan to switch to FC5 when I'm at it.
>
> By clean installation I mean that I would like to wipe/format all the
> Linux partitions during installation. But only the Linux partitions should
> be wiped and not the Windows partitions.
>
> I will copy my personal files to DVD before the installation.
>
> Please help me by answering these 2 questions:
>
> 1. Is this type of installation possible?
>
> 2. Is there a guide somewhere to how this can be done?
>
> Thanks
>
> ..
> Kind regards
> Flemming T. Hansen
Just do it, it's easier than you thought
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| Flemming Hansen 2006-09-09, 1:26 am |
| Well thank you
Henry Wu skrev:
> Flemming Hansen wrote:
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> Just do it, it's easier than you thought
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| Flemming Hansen 2006-09-09, 1:26 am |
| Thank you for the advice.
Unfortunately the link in your answer does nok work in my browser.
"Page can not be found" ???
Markku Kolkka wrote:
> Flemming Hansen wrote:
>
> Why do you think that a clean install would help? FC5 doesn't include a
> Java browser plugin. The Java installation process is the same in both
> FC4 and FC5.
>
>
> Yes. Just choose the right option at the partitioning options
> screen. "Create custom layout" together with "Review and modify
> partitioning layout" is the safest way.
>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/qcye6
>
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| Flemming Hansen 2006-09-09, 1:26 am |
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Thank you very much for your answer
I have considered just reinstalling FC4, but thought why not the newest FC5.
Apart from the Java problem, my Linux system works just fine. On my wifes pc, her FC4 works fine
including java.
I've tried several versions of Java runtime and JDK from sun and several versions of Firefox and
Mozilla hoping to solve the question. I get the same error every time.
I've posted my Java problems in several www-forums and filed a bug report at Sun's pages and
received many brilliant suggestions from kind people like you, but none have helped so far.
Very strange.
I would be very happy indeed, if you can help me, but I'm afraid it will have to be in another
usenet group to avoid breaking the netiquette.
Or I'll be more than happy to mail you the details if you would care to take a look at it.
To avoid posting your address here I risk exposing mine so you can contact me. I'll be willing to
pay you say 50 USD if you can solve this problem.
My address is
a4 at c.dk
replace at with @
You can see a detailed discussion and some solution suggestions at
http://www.groupsrv.com/linux/post-545281.html
and if you can read danish the question is also described in the following url
http://forum.mozilladanmark.dk/view...dde1385ad079258
Or a brief explanation at
http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/...ad.php?p=490169
I hope to hear from you.
/Flemming
Spamless skrev:
> On 2006-09-07, Flemming Hansen <h@nsens.dk> wrote:
>
> Why can't you use Java? What browser are you using? What version of
> the Java runtime are you using?
>
> I use firefox and jdk1.5.0_08 (the JDK, not just the runtime - from sun)
> on Fedora core2 (various upgrades and updates) on an old system (933MHz).
>
> I'm waiting for FC6 before upgrading :-)
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| decrepit 2006-09-09, 1:21 pm |
| Did you click on it our, paste/type it into the url bar?
I clicked on it and it took me to this address,
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedor...tioning-general
very sneaky, guess the troubles with long links is they can wrap onto 2
lines, causing problems.
Flemming Hansen wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Thank you for the advice.
>
> Unfortunately the link in your answer does nok work in my browser.
> "Page can not be found" ???
>
>
> Markku Kolkka wrote:
>
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| Flemming Hansen 2006-09-09, 7:32 pm |
| Well I tried both. The tinyurl link does not wrok for me.
But the long url below does work fine. Thank you.
decrepit skrev:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Did you click on it our, paste/type it into the url bar?
> I clicked on it and it took me to this address,
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedor...tioning-general
>
>
> very sneaky, guess the troubles with long links is they can wrap onto 2
> lines, causing problems.
>
> Flemming Hansen wrote:
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| Flemming Hansen 2006-09-09, 7:32 pm |
| Hi
I'm afraid I'm not able to answer the mail you so kindly have send me.
When I mailed a reply I got an answer back with "fatal error" and "user unknown". I did send to the
address you used, and I did send from the address you had on your whitelist.
Kind regards
Flemming
Spamless skrev:
> On 2006-09-07, Flemming Hansen <h@nsens.dk> wrote:
>
> Why can't you use Java? What browser are you using? What version of
> the Java runtime are you using?
>
> I use firefox and jdk1.5.0_08 (the JDK, not just the runtime - from sun)
> on Fedora core2 (various upgrades and updates) on an old system (933MHz).
>
> I'm waiting for FC6 before upgrading :-)
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| Flemming Hansen 2006-09-10, 7:41 am |
| Hi John
When I try to send you e-mail I get " Message from <my IP-adress> rejected - see
http://njabl.org/enduser.html". It seems as my ISP has a bad reputation :-)
I'll try to mail you again from my office, so please add the following address to your white list
flh at trafikstyrelsen dot dk
Kind regards
Flemming
Spamless skrev:
> On 2006-09-07, Flemming Hansen <h@nsens.dk> wrote:
>
> Why can't you use Java? What browser are you using? What version of
> the Java runtime are you using?
>
> I use firefox and jdk1.5.0_08 (the JDK, not just the runtime - from sun)
> on Fedora core2 (various upgrades and updates) on an old system (933MHz).
>
> I'm waiting for FC6 before upgrading :-)
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