Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

1. kernel-xen-2.6.20 bug
     After updating Fedora Core 6 to kernel-xen-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6.i686.rpm, PC systems were unstable.  Symptoms were error messages and rebooting.

     I had selected all options for the original FC6 installations which included the "xen" kernel.  The "non-xen" kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686.rpm is installed by default.  The "xen" kernel is not installed by default.

Solution was to replace the updated xen-kernel with the non-xen (default) kernel.
     I uninstalled kernel xen-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6
     and installed the non-xen kernel (kernel-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686.rpm) from:
"http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386"


2.
Mounting Windows NTFS file system for read and write with Fedora 6.

May 24, 2007    [email protected]

REQUIREMENTS (minimum):
 1. fedora 6
 2. fedora-extras installed (turned on by default).
 3. kernel-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 or kernel-xen-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 running.
 4. ntfs-3g installed.

Windows NTFS mount HowTo:
 1. Check to see if ntfs-3g installed:
    >  rpm -qa | grep ntfs
       "ntfs-3g-1.516-1.fc6"
    If above line shows, ntfs-3g is already installed, then skip to 2.

As root, install ntfs-3g
 1. # yum install ntfs-3g
    Note: need network access

Examples:
 2. # mkdir /ntfs
 3. Add "one" line to /etc/fstab (examples, need to know ntfs partition):
    /dev/hda1   /ntfs           ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000                  0 0
    /dev/sda1   /mnt/windows    ntfs-3g defaults,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,uid=500  0 0

Windows NTFS file partition should now mount.
 4. # mount -a

For more ntfs-3g detail see:
http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/ntfs-read-write/

3.
Fedora 6 upgrade note:

     I installed Fedora SIX (6) last November and added openmotif FROM FEDORA FIVE (5).  No updates since. 
     I just did a software update of all packages.  Installed openmotif (5) seemed to confuse the updates.

Solution was to:
     uninstall openmotif
     do the Fedora 6 updates
     reinstall openmotif

Billy R. Adams
email: [email protected]
ph: 757-864-5934

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