Daily Archives: October 31, 2015

Mac hosed from installing new mac os

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New mac os available.  You try to install but you run out of space.  It will fail and your mac will be hosed.  You could press command + R while booting and get into OS Utilities, but it doesn’t allow you to free up space and delete files individually.   Solution: boot into live usb […]

# yum install hfsplus-tools Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again

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In fedora, if you try to yum install and get:   # yum install hfsplus-tools Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again   Change https to http in files in /etc/yum.repos.d/*, e.g.:   sed -i ‘s/https/http/g’ /etc/yum.repos.d/*