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(Newbie alert) Successful install! Uhh, sort of.
- From: Brian Durant <durant@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 19:20:08 +0700
- Message-id: <814649705.20020302192008@xxxxxxxxxx>
Hello again,
I have finally managed to install SuSE 7.3 Pro on my Win 2k box, with
some help on monitor configuration, but there were a number of
problems...
1) gcc - unpacking of archive failed: Bad Magic (does that make this
;-) Linux Voodoo?).
2) howtoenh - .754978 error.
3) /var/adm/mount/suse/doc1/sdb_en.rpm not found.
4) kdegames 545114 error
5) tcpd unpacking of archive failed:cpio - bad magic
6) icons-xpm 32.894321 error.
Man, I have never seen so many errors in my life on a Linux install! I
finally got SuSE up and running by doing a standard KDE Office
install, but without Star Office. I added "idanish" for Danish spell
check, as well as the Opera web browser, Quanta and KOffice. The
result is the relatively few errors as you see above. On earlier
attempts, it was a lot worse.
Anyway, here are my problems:
1) How serious are the above errors, what can I do about them and are
they the reason why the KDE Control Center crashes?
2) My ethernet cards are not listed correctly/do not have correct
drivers or drivers are unavailable in SuSE. This prevents me from
gaining access to my LAN or to the Internet via my router and cable
modem. My 2 ethernet cards are listed in Win 2000 as:
VIA PCI 10/100Mb Fast Ethernet Adapter
PNIC2 Based Fast Ethernet Adapter (ACPI)
I know that the second card is an Asante FriendlyNet card and in
Mandrake Linux is provided with a Tulip driver that works. However,
this is not being used at this time. It is the other card that I need
to get configured properly to access the Internet. I have looked at
the manuals that came with SuSE 7.3 Pro, but can't for the life of me
figure out how to reconfigure the ethernet cards' drivers. Any ideas
how to change this in SuSE?
I do have to say that there are two things that really impressed me
about the SuSE installation. The first is the ease with which a
ReiserFS partition can be formatted in. I tried this in Mandrake 8 and
never succeeded due to the complexity and me being a newbie ;-) THe
other thing that impressed me was the automagical mounting of my Win
2000 partition on the desktop. I have never seen this in either
Mandrake or Red Hat!
--
Cheers,
Brian mailto:durant@xxxxxxxxxx
I have finally managed to install SuSE 7.3 Pro on my Win 2k box, with
some help on monitor configuration, but there were a number of
problems...
1) gcc - unpacking of archive failed: Bad Magic (does that make this
;-) Linux Voodoo?).
2) howtoenh - .754978 error.
3) /var/adm/mount/suse/doc1/sdb_en.rpm not found.
4) kdegames 545114 error
5) tcpd unpacking of archive failed:cpio - bad magic
6) icons-xpm 32.894321 error.
Man, I have never seen so many errors in my life on a Linux install! I
finally got SuSE up and running by doing a standard KDE Office
install, but without Star Office. I added "idanish" for Danish spell
check, as well as the Opera web browser, Quanta and KOffice. The
result is the relatively few errors as you see above. On earlier
attempts, it was a lot worse.
Anyway, here are my problems:
1) How serious are the above errors, what can I do about them and are
they the reason why the KDE Control Center crashes?
2) My ethernet cards are not listed correctly/do not have correct
drivers or drivers are unavailable in SuSE. This prevents me from
gaining access to my LAN or to the Internet via my router and cable
modem. My 2 ethernet cards are listed in Win 2000 as:
VIA PCI 10/100Mb Fast Ethernet Adapter
PNIC2 Based Fast Ethernet Adapter (ACPI)
I know that the second card is an Asante FriendlyNet card and in
Mandrake Linux is provided with a Tulip driver that works. However,
this is not being used at this time. It is the other card that I need
to get configured properly to access the Internet. I have looked at
the manuals that came with SuSE 7.3 Pro, but can't for the life of me
figure out how to reconfigure the ethernet cards' drivers. Any ideas
how to change this in SuSE?
I do have to say that there are two things that really impressed me
about the SuSE installation. The first is the ease with which a
ReiserFS partition can be formatted in. I tried this in Mandrake 8 and
never succeeded due to the complexity and me being a newbie ;-) THe
other thing that impressed me was the automagical mounting of my Win
2000 partition on the desktop. I have never seen this in either
Mandrake or Red Hat!
--
Cheers,
Brian mailto:durant@xxxxxxxxxx
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