May 2007 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation
by Peter Czanik 29 May '07

29 May '07

Hello, I work a lot with machines with limited amount of RAM, like: http://www.genesippc.com/openclient.php , but also many old PC's, which are still suitable for running xfce, Opera, vnc and rdesktop. Installation on these machines is getting more and more difficult due to RAM requirements of the installer (especially the package manager). Right now the only way to install openSUSE on such a machine is to enable a swap partition at the beginning of installation. Here comes a catch: one can not enable a swap partition, when a HDD is not yet partitioned, or partitioned for Windows, so the disk has to be partitioned manually with fdisk or parted before the installation can begin. I wonder, if support for swap file could be added to LinuxRC, so these machines could be installed a lot more easy. There are many ways implementing it. For 2-3 installations even an USB key would do the job (yes, I know that they don't like many write operations, but one does not install machines so often :-) ), or any existing ext2/reiserfs/FAT partition, which Linux can write. One could use a 'swfilepart=/dev/sdb1' parameter to choose a device and then create a big enough 'suseinstallswap' file, which can be deleted at the end. 'big enough' is about 350MB for factory / ftp installation source. Then mkswap, swapon could be ran on it, and installation of these low RAM machines could be done just as any other openSUSE install. This is of course only for 'advanced' users, who know what they do, just as installing from a partition, where the user needs to take care, that the installation source is not formatted during installation :-) Bye, CzP --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Public development of AppArmored FireFox
by Alexey Eremenko 28 May '07

28 May '07

A new upcoming product has received a new artwork: https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=137790 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=255541 modified by me :) -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] 10.2 menu.lst after kernel update
by Volker Kuhlmann 28 May '07

28 May '07

Is the 10.2 perl-Bootloader the same as for factory, or is that off topic here? The kernel update produced at last a bootable system (with the exception of having to manually select the correct grub menu entry for booting, or editing menu.lst). Some of the details of the newly added entries are bad though (I left off the irrelevant parts): title openSUSE 10.2 - 2.6.18.8-0.3 root (hd1,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.3-default root=/dev/md0 title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.2 - 2.6.18.8-0.3 root (hd1,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.3-default root=/dev/md0 This has been title openSUSE 10.2 root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default root=/dev/md0 title openSUSE 10.2 (disk 2) root (hd1,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default root=/dev/md0 for a very good reason: together with /etc/grub.conf setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd0,4) setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd1) (hd1,4) I get a boot loader installed on each of the two disks, so that when one disk gets removed from the raid1, the system still boots. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Enable/Disable Source with zypper
by Marcel Hilzinger 28 May '07

28 May '07

I found no entry in the wiki or the manpage: what is the syntax to enable/disable a source with zypper? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Marcel Hilzinger --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Software Updater - 10.3 Alpha 2
by Donn Washburn 28 May '07

28 May '07

The Software updater seems to be broken. I told it to only get one update file. It has been sitting on "Resolving dependencies" Any one else note this behavior. It has been doing this over 2 hours -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email: " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 Did you know? The transistor was invented by three white men. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Yast Heartbeat config?
by Birger Kollstrand 27 May '07

27 May '07

Hi, I've been looking around for configuring a HA service in SuSE and found a great article linked from openSUES services. there it is referred to "Yast2 heartbeat". I can not find the module. Not on the default media nor in the build service? Is this not part of openSUSE, only a proprietary module for SLES? If so , that's a shame as I would like to try it out on my test machines prior to implementing at work. If it is SLES only then the referal from the openSUSE wiki article to the SLES documentation should be removed as it is not possible to follow as it is now. (http://en.opensuse.org/Configuration#High_Availability) Regards Birger -- Arendal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Ark Zipper
by Donn Washburn 27 May '07

27 May '07

Hey SuSE; After about 3 hours of downloading that sorry Ark Zipper unzipped a file.iso (that is nice, to see whats in the file.iso). Guess what? It would not save it or do any useful thing with it (like burn to a CD). I even tried lying to it that the file.iso was to be tarred to the HD. It of course failed and up came a bug report. After filling and sending it the wonderful Ark Zipper disappeared. Gone! with no trace of my 3 hour download file.iso Granted it started with my mistake to not catch the "unzip" or "save" message coming from Firefox. Never the less, it needs a "just save as" function. -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email: " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 Did you know? The transistor was invented by three white men. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] openSUSE 10.3 Alpha4 doesn't boots with Xen kernel
by Alexey Eremenko 25 May '07

25 May '07

hi all ! openSUSE 10.3 Alpha4 doesn't boots with Xen kernel (Host) on real hardware. System: AMD 1.6 GHz, 32-bit, 1GB of RAM, VIA KM400 chipset. The default kernel works perfectly. Where to find it's logs ? -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] reaplayer on PPC
by Peter Czanik 25 May '07

25 May '07

Hello, Is there any reason for dropping RealPlayer from PPC factory? Even if not perfect, it's still better to have something playing mp3 out of box... Bye, CzP --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Alpha 4 DOS Partition ?
by Andreas Jaeger 25 May '07

25 May '07

"M9." <monkey9(a)iae.nl> writes: > Andreas Jaeger schreef: >> "Günther J. Niederwimmer" <gjn(a)gjn.priv.at> writes: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I can't install Alpha 4 on a System with a small (500MB) DOS Partition >>> on /dev/sda1 ? The new installer like to resize the Partition. When I go to >>> manual partitioning I have only EVMS Drives, after reformat the DOS >>> partition to a swap Partition I can install Alpha 4 and I found all my >>> partition in YaST2 Partitioning ? >>> >>> Is this a known Problem ? >> >> No need for a bugreport: There are quite some problems with EVMS - and >> we're removing it for Alpha5 again, it causes more trouble during >> development than it benefits the few openSUSE users that want it, >> >> Andreas > > Does this mean: sda, becomes hda again? ( i found it strange that my ide > disks became scsi-sata devices...) No, I meant the text "I have only EVMS Drives" > (if so i am glad, because there is also no backwards compatability > towards the old system. > > It is not able to mount the partitions (with 10.3 repair) to the system > in 10.2. > as it is not from 10.2 > 10.3 (not able to mount an existing ext2 > partition)) > Trying to rewrite menu list did not succeed. > Screwing happened after installing 10.2, where there was allready 10.3 A4. > Even the installer from 10.3, is not able to start-up the installed > 10.3, recognises the fs, but does not recognise the bootimages somehow... > Also RPM database maintaining, or rebuilding is not compatible.. Please report those as different issues, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform/openSUSE, aj(a)suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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