March 2000 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Preliminary Budgetary exercise
by FPJSCHOOL＠aol.com 30 Mar '00

30 Mar '00

Thanks for the reply... I visited the Window 2000 show in London and guess what? - I had the opportunity to shake Roger Whittaker by his hand - Got a copy of SO5.1, which I promptly installed on the NT and works fine but have to yet intall it on Linux workstation since I haven't got a spare PC to install it on yet at school..

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MCA Mafia...
by Anthony Hogbin 30 Mar '00

30 Mar '00

Any advice? I am a PS2 addict - and 'am running an IBM Server 500 (128Mb RAID SCSI2 F/W 10x2.21Gb Complex 4 9595a planar - I have hard wired in some parts which have it running at 200MMX Mhz now... but apart from that as spec.) which is the final evolution of MCA. I am currently running NT 4 & Backoffice on it - and it works fine - but I am looking to put SuSE on it. There is plenty of redhat support for PC500 boxes - but v. little suse. I understand due to the fact it is not edge triggered and becuase the complex has a cache controller that there are complexities..... I have gotten around the locking up on the checking HLT instruction by using linux no-hlt at the boot floppy boot: prompt - but now it stops at initialising the TCP/UDP/ICMP protocols - ARGH! Can anyone advise? .....well - no ask - no find out! Anthony . . . ----------------------------- Anthony Hogbin ----------------------------- work: admin(a)cleevepark.kent.sch.uk home: anthony.hogbin(a)BTinternet.com www.btinternet.com/~anthony.hogbin

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RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] CDROM drive stopped working - help please (fwd)
by James Samuel 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

This one went to the wrong place. :) -- James Samuel Network Manager, SuSE Linux Ltd. Direct Phone: +44 (0)208 387 1485 Fax: +44 (0)208 387 4010 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:04:44 +0100 From: Steve Pratt <steve(a)sheliak.co.uk> To: James Samuel <james(a)suse.co.uk> Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] CDROM drive stopped working - help please My first test would be to insert a CD and issue a mount command mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt then try ls /mnt If that works, then you will just need to look in your /etc/fstab for the CD line and amed. If the first bit works, email me your fstab, and I'll send the necessary changes. SteveP -----Original Message----- From: James Samuel [mailto:james@suse.co.uk] Sent: 29 March 2000 11:00 To: Alan Davies Cc: suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] CDROM drive stopped working - help please On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Alan Davies wrote: > Agh!!!!!!!!!!! > > My CDROM drive - which was working fine on SUSE 6.2 (on my laptop) > has seemingly stopped on SUSE6.3 > > (And its not the hardware - as I have a removable HD with alternative > operating systems - and it works fine under NT and '95) > > I 'upgraded' (or at least an ex-pupil of mine did it for me) and > it upgraded from the CDROM drive OK. > > But now - it says mount point /S.u.S.E. does not exist when the machine goes > through its boot phase - and the same if you click on the kde CDROM > drive - or try to do 'mount /dev/cd' from a shell. > > There is a file 'cdrom' in the /dev folder which appears (according to > its properties) to be a link to hdc. I was a little surprised by this. > > Should I be? If the CD Drive is hdc, no - you shouldn't be surprised at all. This is normal, and provided more as a convienence feature than anything else. > And can anyone help me fix this problem....please? I don't honestly know what's looking for /S.u.S.E. - The only thing I am aware of that uses that dir currently is the Live FileSystem. I've been informed that maybe the 5.* series used it as the Yast mount point, but I can't confirm this either way. Other than that, unless something in the kernel is missing, I don't know what else to suggest. Is there anything in syslog that might point towards something? -- James Samuel Network Manager, SuSE Linux Ltd. Direct Phone: +44 (0)208 387 1485 Fax: +44 (0)208 387 4010

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CDROM drive stopped working - help please
by Alan Davies 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

Agh!!!!!!!!!!! My CDROM drive - which was working fine on SUSE 6.2 (on my laptop) has seemingly stopped on SUSE6.3 (And its not the hardware - as I have a removable HD with alternative operating systems - and it works fine under NT and '95) I 'upgraded' (or at least an ex-pupil of mine did it for me) and it upgraded from the CDROM drive OK. But now - it says mount point /S.u.S.E. does not exist when the machine goes through its boot phase - and the same if you click on the kde CDROM drive - or try to do 'mount /dev/cd' from a shell. There is a file 'cdrom' in the /dev folder which appears (according to its properties) to be a link to hdc. I was a little surprised by this. Should I be? And can anyone help me fix this problem....please? -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School

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[SuSE-linux-uk-schools] Modem
by adrian.wells 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

Hi Richard, >>I need to get a new external modem that I can plug in to either my NT or Linux box.<< I have been swapping a USR 14400 Voice and a USR V90 Voice modem on my SuSE box with impunity - These are also supported by win9x and NT 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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Numlock / double-click / CD-ROM Speed
by adrian.wells 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

Thanks for the numblock info - that worked a treat. double-click Is it possible to change the mouse action (say within file managers) to respond to double rather than single clicks? I find myself either opening files that I didn't intend to open or else opening two instances of a file that I want to open! CD-ROM Speed (24x IDE, 48MB RAM, P266) While spuddling through the SuSE CDs, looking at the packages available, I have noticed that some (large) folders initially display their contents quickly then slow to a crawl - requiring a down line/page to initiate further reads, only to suddenly speed up again towards the end of the folder (sorry, I forget which folders/CDs were responsible). Is this a 'feature' of LINUX and the way it reads CD's or do I need to increase a CD cache somewhere? 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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Second Hard Disk - Warning
by adrian.wells 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

How not to do it! I wanted to add a second 2GB disk to my susebox and followed the instructions on pages 449/450 of the manual. All went well as far as item 5 [twice :-( ] The first two attempts provided me with a read-only /OPT folder which meant that LINUX would not boot/start all processes AND I could not edit /etc/fstab ! - That is to say that I could not save any changes made in vi. (would it have been possible to change the file attributes manually?) On the second re-build (getting good at it now!) I spotted the problem, the attributes in /etc/fstab shown in the book were different to mine! Mine look like this - I assume that anyone using YaST2 to install would have a similar table. /dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 1 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb3 /opt ext2 defaults 1 1 I copied the attributes of the /boot partion, as per the manual. Anyway it works very well now :-) Can you offer any explanation/advice please Roger? 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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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Modem
by James Ogley 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

> I need to get a new external modem that I can plug in to either my NT > or Linux box. > What modems can Linux work with? What are people here using? > Should I go for a name I recognize, say Hayes or 3Com-USR or is Linux > not fussy? Just about any external modem (except those shady WinModem types) will work... We have a list of supported hardware (searchable) at http://cdb.suse.de/cdb_english.html but I can reccomend the Diamond SupraExpress 56e Pro - I just bought one, works straight out the box, a quich wvdialconf succesfully probed it and created my wvdial.conf file into which I just had to stick my ISP specific info James -- James Ogley, SuSE Linux UK Ltd - +44 (0) 20 8 387 4088 @ Work: ogley(a)suse.co.uk www.suse.co.uk @ Home: james(a)rubberturnip.org.uk www.rubberturnip.org.uk ICQ: 57374251 Slashdot: riggwelter (84180)

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Modem
by richard＠tortoise.demon.co.uk 28 Mar '00

28 Mar '00

Hello all I need to get a new external modem that I can plug in to either my NT or Linux box. What modems can Linux work with? What are people here using? Should I go for a name I recognize, say Hayes or 3Com-USR or is Linux not fussy? regards Richard richard(a)tortoise.demon.co.uk

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Hello from Bryngwyn
by Alan Harris 27 Mar '00

27 Mar '00

Hi There! Just thought I'd introduce myself and give you an idea of my Linux project - any comments gratefully received btw. At the moment we are running four NT 4.0 servers on a school wide 10/100 mbps cat 5 switched network. We also have one Linux (Red Hat 5.2) server running on this system as well. I am about to start a project to create a network of four/five Linux servers (Suse 6.3 and Red Hat 6.1) and two workstations (Caldera Openlinux and Win '95) to investigate replacing our NT 4.0 servers and Win '95/'98 systems. This network will consist of :- 1 ICL Pentium 133 running Red Hat 6.1 with 2*Netgear FA310 10/100 Mbps cards (Primary DNS for Linux Domain earthforce.cxm, Primary NIS server and general web server (Apache)) 1 ICL Pentium 100 running Suse 6.3 with Apache, MySQL and PHP for the development of web based admin, reports and target setting systems. 2 ICL Pentium 75's running Suse 6.3 / Red Hat 6.1 with Samba to provide file storage for pupils (Linked via NFS, will be secondary NIS servers) 1 ICL 486SX/25 Running Red Hat 6.1 to act as a secondary DNS Server to the ICL P133 for the Linux Domain earthforce.cxm. 1 Elonex Lumina MediaGX system running Caldera Openlinux (to act as a workstation evaluation) 1 Elonex Lumina MediaGX system running Windows'95 (to act as a workstation evaluation) It is my intention to link the servers together using NIS and NFS, to ensure that users can log on from anywhere in the school. The P133 will be the primary server for these functions. The system will be administered remotely via http using WebMin (http://www.webmin.com) Both the Windows '95 and Caldera based workstations will be running Staroffice 5.1 (courtesy of Sun / Star Division) and Netscape Communicator. As I'm a Linux newbie this is going to be a lot of fun (If I can find the time to complete it!) If this test is successful then it will be deployed using IBM Netfinity 3000's (I hope) sometime during the coming year. This is just a very broad outline of what I intend to do so any comments or other helpful hints will be appreciated. Alan Harris Network Manager Bryngwyn School alanh(a)bryngwyn.carmarthen.sch.uk

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