March 2006 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Beta9 Minimal Install
by Chad Groneman 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Hi, >From AJ's announcement: > The distribution comes with 5 CDs. You need: > * CD1 only for a minimal text installation (English) > * CDs 1-3 for a default KDE or GNOME installation in German or English > * All CDs for other selections I just did an i386 minimal text install, it took approx 450 MB from CD1, but also required about 3 packages from CD2. Should I file a bug report? Thanks, Chad

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makeSUSEdvd broken for beta9
by Azerion 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Seems like makeSUSEdvd is broken in combination with beta9. The md5sums of the iso's are okey. When I wanted to install it reported that it could not found the packages. So I makeSUSEdvd-ed again and tried with y2pmsh. That one reports this: source -a /setup/beta9repo failed to detect sources on file:/setup/beta9repo ERROR(InstSrc:E_cache_dir_create) Azerion

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ftp install can't find package data
by Felix Miata 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

I tried 3 times today on two mirrors, mirrors.kernel.org, & ftp.cise.ufl.edu. Each time it failed with: "Cannot read package data from installation media. Media error?" This looks rather like the other thread today about "makeSUSEdvd broken for beta9". -- "Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord." Psalm 119:11 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/

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minimal install don't install
by jdd 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

I try to install my extremely lowend laptop :-). from cd, no luck, extremely slow. I could copy the cd (beta 8) on the hard drive and boot from there, with an acceptable speed. I choose minimal text install; problems: a manual install was required. *first for a dependency problem. libX11.so.6 asks for "NX". Accepting this gives tyhe go. why is this not done automatically, I don't know. *second, worst, the time was wrong. I have until now (more than one hour work) unable to pass this. the date is said "le temps est passé" (I think this is "the time is past due". This mean nothing on a computer not net connected (so where does it know the time?). worts there is absolutely no way to change the given time. going to the time menu allows changing the time, but the chage is not transmitted to the previous screen. when coming again in the install, the time is still the same. I even could change the computer date (on an other console), but not passing the install screen so the install was refused by yast... sad jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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updating factory
by Felix Miata 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

I've been running Mandriva devel (Cooker) for several years. Last week I installed factory from ftp. Now I want to update. This was a simple 2 step process in Cooker: 1-urpmi-update -a; 2-urpmi --auto-select. The options in YaST Control Center don't seem to have an equivalent, and looking on http://en.opensuse.org/ doesn't seem to be getting me anywhere. Can someone please point me to instructions for how this is done in factory? -- "Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord." Psalm 119:11 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/

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Re: makeSUSEdvd broken for beta9
by Azerion 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Sorry, I wasn't root. Now y2pmsh does work. Will do another install-try. ps. Why can you start y2pmsh when you are no root? You can start it but you cannot use it, so why not a root-check? Azerion

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factory
by Peter Czanik 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hello, What is the current status of factory? Is it now: factory = beta9 and frozen until Monday? Bye, CzP -- CzP http://peter.czanik.hu/

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Q: OOo: where and which version?
by Ulrich Windl 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hi, I just browsed the SL-OSS-factory tree at "suse/i586". There are OpenOffice templates and a quickstarter, but I failed to find the packages with the program. I wanted to know whether 2.0.2 will be part of 10.1. Yesterday I found out that 10.0 still has a "pre-2" version, which is not wat I really want. Regards, Ulrich

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ndiswrapper
by Kenneth Schneider 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

OSS 10.1 beta 8 Trying to compile km_ndiswrapper-1.2-2.i586.rpm from 10.0 and am getting errors. Since I cannot connect my laptop I am NOT going to copy a 120 colume X 25 row error message here. One small part states: halt passed 1 argument, but takes just 0 then the errors start and the compilation craps out. Any suggestions short of sacrificing my first born? And yes I do need ndiswrapper because it is the only way to use my wireless card and no I -AM NOT- going to buy a different card so don't suggest it. Ken

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crash on time error
by jdd 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

still on this very low end machine (only 76Mo ram), I got a time error (I don't really understand why). I didn't change anything to the time :-(. this took 2 hours to correct and got a hard crash. after 16 hours of install :-(. I wont fill bug reports for such things. This computer runs well with 10.0. I only try to find a way to make a very straightforward install on low end machine, kind of machines that runs quite well and are nearly free nowaday. this one could be very handy as a personal gateway (it's a mini laptop). what make me upset is that the machine runs linux very well, it's only an install problem this mail only for reporting a situation, not at all as a complain :-). If I find a way, I'll report it :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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