July 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

(Newbie alert) Zip drive confusion.
by Brian Durant 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

Hi all, I have just tried to access my USB 250 Zip drive in SUSE 7.3 Pro, only to receive the following message: "Could not mount device. The reported error was mount /dev/sda4: unknown device." I have checked and ziptool is installed, I have a Zip icon on my desktop, but obviously, something needs to be configured somewhere. I read /usr/share/doc/packages/ziptool/README, but there wasn't any help as far as I could decipher. Any ideas? Cheers, Brian

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Linux type Download Accelerator Plus utility?
by Brian Durant 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

Hello again, Is there a download utility in the Linux world that works like Download Accelerator Plus? -- Cheers, Brian mailto:durant@cbn.net.id

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Re: [SLE] directtv dsl and linux
by Michael Fischer 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

On Sun, Jan 13, Jon Pennington wrote: > On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 09:43, Steven Hatfield wrote: > > > The support staff knows Linux. I called them up with a problem once, and > > the level 1 support person was having me run ifconfig, look at > > /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf, trying to track down a connection > > issue.. it was pretty amazing that they even knew these configuration > > files exist. > > Color me flabberghasted. :D Well, I use them now as well, and am reasonably happy with the service. I wouldn't actually say the support staff "knows" linux. Times I've had to call, (which was only because I IpTabled myself out of the router -- idiot) the service people were friendly and sympathetic, but with NO experience of *nix. The fellows I talked to tried their best, and actually took notes from what I said I was trying out (ifconfig, route and friends), but actually told me that their boss was giving them dirty looks for trying to "support" one of those Linux people. Their manual, interestingly enough has sections on UNIX installations, which basically back out of it all by saying that typical *nix users are smarter about all this stuff, and should make it all come out fine by setting up their own flavor of DHCP. If you know of genuinely *nix-savvy tech support folks there, could you mention names? I'd ask for them by name at need, and send kudos-type emails to their managers commending them for their Linux expertise. Cheers. Michael -- Michael Fischer Happiness is a config option. michael(a)visv.net Recompile and be happy.

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ReiserFS + mirroring + ATA
by Chris.Smith＠raytheon.co.uk 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Hi, I have two hard disks:- ata1 - master = IBM 30Gig ATA100 (/dev/hda) ata2 - slave = IBM 30Gig ATA100 (/dev/hdb) Any ideas how I can software mirror these and use ReiserFS as a disk format? SuSE has to be bootable off either of the disks *and* if one drive blows up, I need to be able to swap it out with another one and rebuild the mirror pretty quickish. I dont need to hot-swap - powering down is fine. Can someone give us an idea where to start please! Cheers, - Chris.

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APM still at it(Not Resolved
by SuSe Mailling List subscriber 07 Nov '01

07 Nov '01

Hi, Last night i posted message asking on help to aviod my system shutdown by it self. Well put statement suggested in lilo.con in the appriate localtion suggested but jut know the system in question just power off again for no good reason. I am running SuSe 7.1 Kernel 2.4.13 Mantel RPM. 512 MB RAM 10 GB (ReiserFS / ext2 /boot) Matorx Millimum 2 MB (It's work machine ) D-Link 538 TX+ 10/100 MB What noticed this occurs when memory drop below 350 MB the system shutdown when i am going in to X/Gnome. What i find strange is i am running RH 7.1 + Kernel 2.4.13 Kernel.org with exact same MB/RAM/HD/NIC etc.. and all it well with it. I have had this problems since kernel 2.4.0 . I have checked RAM with memtest and it check out i have switched ram from RH 7.1 Box with this one done memory test as well it check out but still occurs. I have always love SuSe but seriously thinking of calling it quit's with this distro. I never any problems with other distro/kernels acting like this. Any ideas :) Alex :)

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Burn bootable CDs
by Oliver Ob 05 Oct '01

05 Oct '01

Hi fellows. I am thinking of burning images of the below kind: 1) bootable both Linux and DOS 6 2) Linux should boot from CD into 16 MB HDD 3) Securing my installed Souzie for backup reasons, it should then work from CD (inside Ramdisk), if possible Now, please how can I get this done, what do I need? If detailed explanation is asked too much, a little friendly point into the right direction was enough.

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Piping Characters
by Ray Booysen 26 Sep '01

26 Sep '01

Could someone please tell me the difference between the different piping characters e.g |, >>, > Thanks Ray Booysen

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Apache segmentaion fault in 7.2
by Nik Gare 26 Sep '01

26 Sep '01

Hi, It's been a long time since I posted to this list, but I now need just a bit of help... I have just done a fresh install of 7.2, using default+network installation, but apache fails during boot up with the following: Starting httpd [ LDAP PERL PHP4 ]/etc/init.d/apache: line 172: 1002 Segmentation fault $HTTPD_BIN $INET6 -t -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf $MODULES >/var/log/httpd/rcapache.log 2>&1 So I had a look in rcapache.log, which just has the helpful message: Syntax OK Unfortunately this means that I have reached the extent of my knowledge here because I don't really know what the error means, so any help/advice is welcome. tia, Nik

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[CD-BURN]
by Oliver Ob 22 Sep '01

22 Sep '01

Hi mates, thank thou I am set! I now burn Audio CDs successfully using "cdrecord dev=0,1,0 -v -audio speed=2 /cd/audio" and what have you! But: Two seconds (and therefore two questions) are left: 01) The gaps in front of the tracks are usually 2 seconds and that gets on my nerves when I want to burn long mixes. How can I get rid of them? I just found out about: devpregap=0 pregap=0 It is written that these commands will be replaced soon. What then? What is the difference between those? What works best for you? Is there yet another command? Does that depend on which CDW you use? 02) I have my "burning PC" set up so that I can transfer the wav or image files via LAN and then start actual burning. Now, that I have not quite encountered problems, do I have to switch runlevel down (=network off) during burn action? If so, would s.t. like init 1 and afterwards init 2 be enough to secure that no fifo underruns occure? Any friendly help or pointer appreciated. TiA Olli -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ =Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤

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no Java support?
by Doug McGarrett 08 Sep '01

08 Sep '01

I am informed by a website that I have a browser that doesn't support Java and so it will not go any further with whatever it might display. This happened in Netscape and Konqureor both. Is there a plug-in I should get and use, or some kind of modification of the kernel (brrr!) of what? TIA --doug

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