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Serge Naggar

10 Nov 2003 10 Nov '03

00:39

Hi, has anybody upgraded 8.2 to 9.0 with no trouble? or had to install 9.0 fresh? I have used the ulb for upgrades to Mozilla, Evolution, Gaim, so those are not the SUSE direct versions if that makes a difference. In the past I have gone the route of fresh install but I wonder if I'm complicating my life with little to show for it. Ideas welcome. thanks -- Cheers, Serge Naggar Consulting

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Jerry Feldman

10 Nov 10 Nov

00:45

New subject: [SLE] SUSE 8.2 to 9.0 - upgrade or install 9.0

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 19:39:37 -0500 Serge Naggar wrote:

Hi, has anybody upgraded 8.2 to 9.0 with no trouble? or had to install 9.0 fresh?

I have used the ulb for upgrades to Mozilla, Evolution, Gaim, so those are not the SUSE direct versions if that makes a difference.

In the past I have gone the route of fresh install but I wonder if I'm complicating my life with little to show for it. I've just been installing to my laptop. Install went fine until the boot, now on the first boot, it is hung in a blank YaST screen (second stage install). Cursor is frozen. I'm going to shut down and try again.

- -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/rt/D+wA+1cUGHqkRAhLZAJ0TJkyn1TZlwpZmA6MkScF/Fxd+KACfTyU0 gu+F/3MONX6olYmLb3/7P7Y= =0Yvb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Sid Boyce

01:04

New subject: [SLE] SUSE 8.2 to 9.0 - upgrade or install 9.0

May not be your problem, but my Fujitsu-Siemens S4546 has an external floppy and it has to be plugged in for YaST to work, for some reason, it accesses the floppy drive when you try doing anything in YaST (the floppy isn't defined as an install source), it doesn't find a floppy in the drive and after some floppy drive rattling, it carries on normally. I had this same problem since 8.2, SuSE Support gave up on trying to fix it. My PC doesn't go to the floppy, I even disabled the floppy in the BIOS, but it still goes to it. Regards Sid. Jerry Feldman wrote:

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On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 19:39:37 -0500 Serge Naggar wrote:

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Hi, has anybody upgraded 8.2 to 9.0 with no trouble? or had to install 9.0 fresh?

I have used the ulb for upgrades to Mozilla, Evolution, Gaim, so those are not the SUSE direct versions if that makes a difference.

In the past I have gone the route of fresh install but I wonder if I'm complicating my life with little to show for it.

I've just been installing to my laptop. Install went fine until the boot, now on the first boot, it is hung in a blank YaST screen (second stage install). Cursor is frozen. I'm going to shut down and try again.

- -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux)

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-- Sid Boyce .... Linux Only Shop.

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Jerry Feldman

01:27

New subject: [SLE] SUSE 8.2 to 9.0 - upgrade or install 9.0

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 01:04:31 +0000 Sid Boyce wrote:

May not be your problem, but my Fujitsu-Siemens S4546 has an external floppy and it has to be plugged in for YaST to work, for some reason, it accesses the floppy drive when you try doing anything in YaST (the floppy isn't defined as an install source), it doesn't find a floppy in the drive and after some floppy drive rattling, it carries on normally. I had this same problem since 8.2, SuSE Support gave up on trying to fix it. My PC doesn't go to the floppy, I even disabled the floppy in the BIOS, but it still goes to it. I've installed several versions of SuSE on this and other laptops. Don't know why it hung, but the second reboot did not have the problem and YaST started up with no problems. Installation was completed successfully.

- -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/rumG+wA+1cUGHqkRAsw5AJ46tAvLkCHcGW/wHfd0kO3Jw9YsDwCfWVQy AeWWJ6I4k8SgtPmXMqoxPqQ= =vczD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Adolph & Sharon Weidanz

01:58

New subject: [SLE] SUSE 9.0 problem w/ mini pc wlan

I have searched all the sites, howtos and anything I could find but still no answer to this problem I am having. As well as posting posting to a.o..l.suse, with no real help. I have a Gateway 600xl laptop w/ a lucent IEEE Ruby mini-pci card installed. The problem is I can't seem to get it to install on bootup. I have used the orinoco_cs, the orinoco_pci and neither solves the problem. As I boot the screen says that wlan-pcmia 'hotplugging' and wlan0 'failed'. I go into yast->network devices->network cards. I have the pro/100 network card setup as eth0. If I setup the wireless card as an other (it does show up though, more on this later) and tell setup to select the lucent from the 'select from list' for the driver and add _pci to the end of the driver. It then recompiles and runs fine. But when I reboot I have to start all over again. If I use the lucent wavelan/ieee setup, which shows up in the config box, I get nothing. it doesn't work at all. Any help would be appreciated..

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Werner Hübner

13:17

New subject: [SLE] SUSE 9.0 problem w/ mini pc wlan

Sounds a bit simular than the problem I have with my Realtek PCMCIA card. PCMCIA does not load the modules automatically and if the card is configured as PCI network starts before PCMCIA and the driver says "no such device". Which is of course right without PCMCIA running. Usually additional entries in '/etc/pcmcia/config' should get PCMCIA to load the modules as it detects the card. Well, it did not work in my case. For now I found only the following dirty a solution: -Configure the card as PCI -Change the links in '/etc/init.d/rcX.d' to start PCMCIA before the network For this the number of the start-link for PCMCIA (Sxx.....) has to have a lower number than the one for the network. The only drawback of this is, that SuSEconfig (I guess) changes this back to the old settings from time to time. To find out if you have the same problem you can do the following: -configure the card as PCI -restart you PC -load the module for the card with modprobe or restart the network with 'rcnetwork restart' If the module is loaded and card works afterwards, the above solution should work. At least untill SuSEconfig changes the links back to the original start order. On Monday 10 November 2003 02:58, Adolph & Sharon Weidanz wrote:

I have searched all the sites, howtos and anything I could find but still no answer to this problem I am having. As well as posting posting to a.o..l.suse, with no real help.

I have a Gateway 600xl laptop w/ a lucent IEEE Ruby mini-pci card installed. The problem is I can't seem to get it to install on bootup. I have used the orinoco_cs, the orinoco_pci and neither solves the problem. As I boot the screen says that wlan-pcmia 'hotplugging' and wlan0 'failed'. I go into yast->network devices->network cards. I have the pro/100 network card setup as eth0. If I setup the wireless card as an other (it does show up though, more on this later) and tell setup to select the lucent from the 'select from list' for the driver and add _pci to the end of the driver. It then recompiles and runs fine. But when I reboot I have to start all over again.

If I use the lucent wavelan/ieee setup, which shows up in the config box, I get nothing. it doesn't work at all.

Any help would be appreciated..

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Jerry Feldman

01:14

New subject: [SLE] SUSE 8.2 to 9.0 - upgrade or install 9.0

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 19:45:55 -0500 Jerry Feldman wrote:

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On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 19:39:37 -0500 Serge Naggar wrote:

...
Hi, has anybody upgraded 8.2 to 9.0 with no trouble? or had to install 9.0 fresh?

I have used the ulb for upgrades to Mozilla, Evolution, Gaim, so those are not the SUSE direct versions if that makes a difference.

In the past I have gone the route of fresh install but I wonder if I'm complicating my life with little to show for it. I've just been installing to my laptop. Install went fine until the boot, now on the first boot, it is hung in a blank YaST screen (second stage install). Cursor is frozen. I'm going to shut down and try again. Powered off, rebooted and completed installation successfully. Don't know why the system hung.

- -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ruaJ+wA+1cUGHqkRAgAKAJ0fwh+B5H/2SkYwDj01n1N0rvPB/gCfSi3N /2xhxsUvZESRBCQKr+6dXBg= =+sDD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Sid Boyce

00:56

New subject: [SLE] SUSE 8.2 to 9.0 - upgrade or install 9.0

Yep, been there done that on my laptop. It removed some files before installing the new ones, so perhaps some of the ULB files may get replaced, but you would want to update ULB for 9.0 in any case. All my config files, /home, /root etc. remained intact. A very straightforward upgrade. I also have a friend who did an upgrade on his PC from 8.1 to 8.2 when it came out and he's now done the 9.0 upgrade successfully. I would advise backing up your critical files, just in case you should need them - burn to a CD or rsync to another machine or hard drive. Regards Sid. Serge Naggar wrote:

Hi, has anybody upgraded 8.2 to 9.0 with no trouble? or had to install 9.0 fresh?

I have used the ulb for upgrades to Mozilla, Evolution, Gaim, so those are not the SUSE direct versions if that makes a difference.

In the past I have gone the route of fresh install but I wonder if I'm complicating my life with little to show for it.

Ideas welcome.

thanks

-- Sid Boyce .... Linux Only Shop.

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Donald Henson

13:42

New subject: [SLE] SUSE 8.2 to 9.0 - upgrade or install 9.0

I did an upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0 with zero problems. I caused a few problems myself after the upgrade, but the upgrade went just fine. Don Henson On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 17:39, Serge Naggar wrote:

Hi, has anybody upgraded 8.2 to 9.0 with no trouble? or had to install 9.0 fresh?

I have used the ulb for upgrades to Mozilla, Evolution, Gaim, so those are not the SUSE direct versions if that makes a difference.

In the past I have gone the route of fresh install but I wonder if I'm complicating my life with little to show for it.

Ideas welcome.

thanks -- Cheers, Serge Naggar Consulting

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Vince Littler

17:16

New subject: [SLE] SUSE 8.2 to 9.0 - upgrade or install 9.0

On Monday 10 November 2003 12:39 am, Serge Naggar wrote:

Hi, has anybody upgraded 8.2 to 9.0 with no trouble? or had to install 9.0 fresh?

I have used the ulb for upgrades to Mozilla, Evolution, Gaim, so those are not the SUSE direct versions if that makes a difference.

In the past I have gone the route of fresh install but I wonder if I'm complicating my life with little to show for it.

Ideas welcome.

thanks -- Cheers, Serge Naggar Consulting

Done both, equal amount of no problems regards Vince Littler

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Sid Boyce
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