February 2000 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Writings
by Roger Whittaker 16 Feb '00

16 Feb '00

People who haven't come across Eric Raymond's writings may be interested in looking at: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/ -- Roger Whittaker SuSE Linux Ltd The Kinetic Centre Theobald Street Borehamwood Herts WD6 4PJ ---------------------- 020 8387 1482 ---------------------- roger(a)suse-linux.co.uk ----------------------

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Playtime
by adrian.wells 16 Feb '00

16 Feb '00

Hi Roger, No similarities between you and the Mullah Nasruddin I hope! :-) Sorry to take to long before coming out to play again. You were right, It was a disk size problem. My 1Gig is split 8M Boot, 64M Swap and the rest native LINUX. I have to agree with Kuldip Singh a 1gGig drive ought to be big enough for most OS especially one that hypes itself as being fast and compact. Even running YaST (1) (which looks like an old DOS program) it is dreadfully slow running a on a P75 and 16meg of EDO (agreed more RAM would probably help) I am about to par down my installation and have another go. With reference to Intel Inside. and Paul's reply >Trades Desciption Act?? >Intel Inside DOES describe the chipset on the mainboard, I fear Actually it says Intel Processor inside, and may have any one of a number of chipsets on the motherboard - I have been trying to contact Tiny over this since... A. AMD ain't Intel (re Patents etc.), but rather a copy, although they may be faster. B. AMD are cheaper than Intel! Guess what, they bounce me from department to department until I get a phone that is not answered! Adrian Kind Regards Adrian Wells _______________________________________ Systems Manager Sidcot School Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD. Please reply to adrian.wells(a)sidcot.org.uk admin(a)sidcot.org.uk for general enquiries

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Introducing Ourselves
by Administrator 16 Feb '00

16 Feb '00

Hi, Just a note to introduce ourselves to the list. I'm the Network Manager of The Hundred of Hoo School in Kent. We have just purchased our first Linux Product (SUSE Linux 6.3) but haven't yet had a chance to install it. We will primarily be using it to familiarise ourselves with this O/S with a view to demonstrating it to our IT students. We currently have a large 5 server NT Network running RM Connect 2.31 with over 250 stations. We have 128K ISDN link on the BT Schools Internet Caller Tarrif and over 2000 users all with email and filtered internet access. We will shortly be introducing a Gigabit Ethernet backbone to our network, (if all goes well). We already subscribe to the RM list server which has proved extremely useful and hope that this list will be just as useful. Regards, Dean Crowe - Network Manager The Hundred of Hoo School administrator(a)hundredhoo.medway.sch.uk www.hundredhoo.medway.sch.uk www.kentnetworkers.co.uk Tel: 01634 251443 x 216

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Today's welcome message
by Roger Whittaker 16 Feb '00

16 Feb '00

Hello everyone. As usual, more people belong to the list than there were yesterday, so welcome: do a posting and introduce yourselves. Just for a change a little story. One day, Mullah Nasruddin went up into the pulpit and said: "O people, which of you know the great truths of religion which I am going to expound to you?" And, not wishing to appear ignorant of Islam, all the congregation raised their hands. So the Mullah said: "In that case there is no need to preach to you." The next week, Mullah Nasruddin went up into the pulpit and said: "O people, which of you know the great truths of religion which I am going to expound to you?" The congregation knew what to do: none of them raised their hands. So the Mullah said: "If you have all reached adulthood in such ignorance of your religion, I will not waste my time preaching to you." The following week, Mullah Nasruddin went up into the pulpit and said: "O people, which of you know the great truths of religion which I am going to expound to you?" The congregation had decided in advance how to answer him, and said: "Some of us know, and others do not know." The Mullah then said "Then let those who know teach those who do not". -- Roger Whittaker SuSE Linux Ltd The Kinetic Centre Theobald Street Borehamwood Herts WD6 4PJ ---------------------- 020 8387 1482 ---------------------- roger(a)suse-linux.co.uk ----------------------

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Hardware spec
by Admin 16 Feb '00

16 Feb '00

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Peter Rutherford wrote: > Hello > > I have managed to get my 486 running with a KDE. How dose it run on your 486 ?. I installed it on a P100 with 16MB memory and it ran like a snail and yet Win95 and even NT server on this machine provide a better response. Is it me or is it all hype that Linux will run on low spec hardware. Kuldip Singh

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Today's welcome message was delayed ...
by Roger Whittaker 15 Feb '00

15 Feb '00

because I was out of the office at a meeting this morning. Yet again there are more people subscribed than yesterday: so introduce yourselves, people. Don't just `lurk': I know some people also have to `wurk', but one minute to say hello or what you're doing would be nice. -- Roger Whittaker SuSE Linux Ltd The Kinetic Centre Theobald Street Borehamwood Herts WD6 4PJ ---------------------- 020 8387 1482 ---------------------- roger(a)suse-linux.co.uk ----------------------

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Boot Failed
by James Scott 15 Feb '00

15 Feb '00

Thanks. This has worked. I am now going through the install procedure. James ---------- > From: Roger Whittaker <roger(a)suse-linux.co.uk> > To: James Scott <scott(a)camborne-comm-coll.cornwall.sch.uk> > Cc: suse @ School <suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com> > Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Boot Failed > Date: 15 February 2000 13:29 > > You can make a new boot floppy by doing this: > mount CD1, and put a floppy in the floppy drive > > then go to > > /cdrom/disks > > and type > > dd if=bootdisk of=/dev/fd0 > > You can try the other ones: eide, yast2 also > > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, James Scott wrote: > > > Hello > > I am not having a good start to the day. I am just in the throws of > > installing SuSE on a 486. I put in the boot disk.......and...... it gives > > me a Boot Failed. Help. > > > > > > Rgds > > > > James > > > > -- > Roger Whittaker > SuSE Linux Ltd > The Kinetic Centre > Theobald Street > Borehamwood > Herts > WD6 4PJ > ---------------------- > 020 8387 1482 > ---------------------- > roger(a)suse-linux.co.uk > ----------------------

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Applications in Linux
by Peter Rutherford 15 Feb '00

15 Feb '00

Hello I have managed to get my 486 running with a KDE. I sympathise with John McCabe; where do you find these thousands of applications AND do they have installation programs? I'm actually quite fond of setup.exe and install.exe! Can I just mount the CD in KDE and double click on an application or, indeed, a file to run/open it? Regards Peter Rutherford, Worthing

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Help with samba
by Admin 15 Feb '00

15 Feb '00

Hi I am trying to set up samba. I have setup the smb.conf file as best I can and can ping the Linux box from my win95 machine, however I can not log on from my win95 client. How do I setup my win95 client to connect to Linux ?. How do I setup shares on Linux ?. Is there any help documentation available which outlines step by step ( for a newbee) the process of connecting win95 clients. I have spent time looking at the man pages and the FAQ but can not see the answers that I seek. Kuldip Singh

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Boot Failed
by James Scott 15 Feb '00

15 Feb '00

Hello I am not having a good start to the day. I am just in the throws of installing SuSE on a 486. I put in the boot disk.......and...... it gives me a Boot Failed. Help. Rgds James

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