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ps2psdf, A4 paper, landscape and wrong margins

April 24th, 2012 No comments

ps2pdf messes up the paper margins when you run it on a A4 landscape postscript file, because it assumes letter sized paper per default.

To fix this, you can either fiddle around in the shell scripts itself or RTFM and invoke the command correctly:

$ ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 myfile.ps myfile.pdf
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Error “you have not created a bootloader stage1 target device”

April 10th, 2012 2 comments

This rather cryptic error may appear during a Fedora 16 installation and simply tries to tell you, that you forgot to create a BIOS boot partition.
If you’re doing a kickstart install, a look at Fedora’s Kickstart wiki page may be helpful. A big yellow alert box essentially tells you to add the following line

part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1

to your kickstart file that used to work with Fedora versions <= 15.

Resources:
Fedora 16 common bugs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=752063

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