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iSCSI causes slow boot load on Fedora 16
Have you ever noticed any error message when computer boots, probably after an update,or in /var/log/messages ? recently I experienced with a slow boot issue on my fedora 16 (Verne) Starting LSB: Starts and stops login and scanning of iSCSI devices.... Starting LSB: Starts and stops login and scanning of iSCSI devices. failed, see 'systemctl status iscsi.service' for details.Due to iscsi service , my boot load time takes more than 15...
How to remove unused Kernels in Fedora/Centos/Redhat Linux
I have a Fedora 16 system . Through kernel updates now I have several Kernel options when I boot the machine. So thought of removing old kernels.I like to keep the boot process clean. there are few way to remove the kernels that are no longer current. the process is fairly simple, To remove it , run as root # rpm -e kernel-version in a terminal (Main Menu > System Tools > Terminal) where version is the full release number. ...
RAID – why should I want / need it ?
It depends... First, if you dont have anything critically important on your computer, and you are satisfied with its speed, you dont need raid. If your computer is fast enough but has critical data, and you do backups regularly No. Here is where it gets tricky: Raid 0 is just striping, it will give you extra speed in the hard drive reads/writes, BUT you lose reliability - there is no redundancy which is fine as long as you have good back...
Install Google Chrome with YUM on Fedora 16/15, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 6
This howto explains howto install Google Chrome Web browser on Fedora 16, Fedora 15, Fedora 14, Fedora 13, Fedora 12, CentOS 6 and Red Hat 6 (RHEL 6). Best way to install and keep up-to-date with Google Chrome browser is use Google’s own YUM repository. Enable Google YUM repository Add following to /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo file: 32-bit [google-chrome] name=google-chrome - 32-bit baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chro...
How to install VLC Media Player for Fedora 15 and Fedora 16
After installing Fedora 15,one of the first things to do is Installing a good media player i.e. VLC Media player.It is free open source media player written by VideoLan Project.VLC Media Player is cross platform too,which means it has versions for almost all OS.You may also say it as portable media player or encoder or streamer which supports many audio and video codecs and different file formats.It plays almost all video and audio files.VLC M...