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by nick.bowling＠dial.pipex.com 09 Sep '98

09 Sep '98

Hello: I need help! I am trying to install S.u.S.E. Linux 5.2. I have found the installation generally straight forward except for one thing, I can't get my network card to work. It is a LinkSys EtherPCI LAN CARD II which is reported by the set up program as an ne2000 clone. This coresponds with the information given by LinkSys on their web site which recommends the ne2k-pci.o driver. Under Win98 the card works fine with TCP/IP and is reported at i/o 0xFCE0 - FCFF and irq=9, but seems undetectable under Linux, it is either reported as absent or "device busy" when atempting to load the correct module. Having tried every possible combination of settings I can find I am now at a loss. The following messages are displayed at boot time; Setting up network device eth0 SIOCSIFADDR: No such device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device which I realise means the driver isn't installing despite being set up in YAST Can you please provide a step by step guide to setting this card up from the root prompt(I am a unix newbie)or point me in the right direction. I normally try to work things like this out for myself but this time I am completely confused. Thanks Nick Bowling nick.bowling(a)dial.pipex.com - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] Who knows PAM?
by hattons＠CPKWEBSER5.ncr.disa.mil 09 Sep '98

09 Sep '98

Has anybody worked wtih Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) in S.u.S.E. ? I added it because it was needed by the KDE rpm I fetched from <A HREF="http://www.foyer.se"><A HREF="http://www.foyer.se</A">http://www.foyer.se</A</A>>. It looks like I need to do some more work to get it to run. I believe I have seen this same problem in reverse with KDE on Solaris, I assume this is because I _didn't_ have PAM installed there. I get a login prompt from KDE, but logins always fail. I have found some html pages for PAM that came with the rpm and will be reading them. I am just wondering if anybody knows the fast and dirty solution to gettin a PAM enabled KDM to work. TIA, Steve - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] Problems Compiling the kernel!!!!!
by babylon51＠ibm.net 09 Sep '98

09 Sep '98

Hi I installed SuSE linux 5.3 for the first time today I am impressed!!!! The problem I am having is that when I try to compile the kernel I always get 2 errors. The question I have is this when compiling the kernel on an AMD k6 how should I declare my cpu??? I declared it as a Pentium. Is this wrong??? Thank you Mulder - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] shadow passwords
by drew＠adapco.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

I am running xi graphics' cde and my passwords are served by an NIS server. cde seems to have some trouble with the shadow passwords and won't let anybody login other than root. Does anybody know how to remove shadow passwords and start using normal passwd? Drew - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] KDM Config
by steve＠millsphoto.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

I have been trying to set up the KDM login screen. My KDE menue offers the variables for the Desktop and it looks every time like I have successfully changed it, but I always get the same old XDM login screen. I had this working once before (previous installation) and can't see why it is failing now. This is true on both of my boxes. Help? Steve Mills steve(a)millsphoto.com <A HREF="http://www.millsphoto.com"><A HREF="http://www.millsphoto.com</A">http://www.millsphoto.com</A</A>> Great Wallpapers Live Here. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] Lack of Colours
by cgilchrist＠macbeth.radius-retail.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

I have a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster 3D with 4MB and there seems to be a severe lack of colour. When I try to startx -- -bpp 16 a horizontal bar of noise appears on the screen and the server locks up. The server I am running is XF_SVGA and I would have thought with having 4MB it would run okay. My monitor is Idek IIyama Vision Master 450 and I don't think this is the problem. Any thoughts or Ideas on how to solve this would be greatfullt received. Chris Gilchrist. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] Fonts in Netscape
by hlarons＠ComCAT.COM 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

I've set the "Always Use My Fonts" option in my Netscape 4.05 that came with SuSE 5.2, and selected 14 pt fonts for both fixed and proportional fonts. But, Netscape ignores my option and the selected fonts, and uses the fonts in a default size (and color) that is very hard to read at 800x600. How can I get Netscape to use larger font sizes (other than going to 640x480)? Also, what goes in the empty boxes on the Netscape config page under "Use Scalable Fonts"? Howard Arons -- Powered by SuSE Linux 5.2 -- kernel 2.0.33 Communications by Mutt 0.93.2 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] WindowMaker
by mlankton＠home.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

Now that you've all worked so hard getting WindowMaker-0.19.1 installed, 0.19.2 is out. Grab it from the official ftp, or, as usual, I supply a local copy on my site. -- .###. /#######\## -==============================================- ;##### ;# Mike's WindowMaker ;##### ;# <A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html"><A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html</A">http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html</A</A>> \# /## -==============================================- ###'---'#### - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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Re: [SuSE Linux] I love KMail...but...
by apeerand＠pacbell.net 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

On Tue, 8 Sep 1998 06:11:10 -0700, Steve Mills wrote: >>for Linux. If anyone is interested they are at <A HREF="http://www.southside.com"><A HREF="http://www.southside.com</A">http://www.southside.com</A</A>> >> >>joe > >Is there another site you had in mind? This is about a banking institution. I >tried .org and that's even less likely. try <A HREF="http://www.southsoft.com"><A HREF="http://www.southsoft.com</A">http://www.southsoft.com</A</A>> andy sent by andy peerand using recyled protons ... Your reality check just bounced. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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Re: [SuSE Linux] shadow passwords
by drew＠adapco.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

I found a better way just update my shadow file to contain the NIS served passwords I'm probably going to write a script to do this automatically when passwd is updated. Right now I'm just copying over the encrypted passwords. Thanks Drew > do switch form shadow passwds to un-shadowed passwds you need to replace > several files, including: > > /etc/passwd > > and bins: > > passwd, chfn, chsh, login, etc... > > > > basically anything that calls to open the passwd file for purposes of > authentication will need to be replaced with its un-shadowed > counterpart... > > zens > > > > On Tue, 8 Sep 1998 drew(a)adapco.com wrote: > > > > > I am running xi graphics' cde and my passwords are served by an NIS server. > > cde seems to have some trouble with the shadow passwords and won't let anybody > > login other than root. Does anybody know how to remove shadow passwords and > > start using normal passwd? > > > > > > Drew > > - > > To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with > > this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e > > > > - > To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with > this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e > - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] startx amd xdm since upgrade t o5.3
by chiodi＠home.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

If I startx this is what i get: (--) SVGA: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 96.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted. (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" (--) SVGA: clgd5420: Specifying a Clocks line makes no sense for this driver (--) SVGA: chipset: clgd5420 (--) SVGA: videoram: 1024k (**) SVGA: clocks: 25.23 28.32 41.16 36.08 31.50 39.99 45.08 49.87 (**) SVGA: Using 8 bpp, Depth 8, Color weight: 666 (--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 50.200 MHz (**) SVGA: Mode "1024x768": mode clock = 44.900, clock used = 45.075 (**) SVGA: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 40.000, clock used = 39.991 (**) SVGA: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 31.500, clock used = 31.499 (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768 (--) SVGA: Generic SpeedUps selected (Flags=0x30) (**) SVGA: clgd5420: Approximate DRAM bandwidth for drawing: 5 of 50 MB/s (--) SVGA: clgd5420: 262144 bytes off-screen memory available System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp "> " -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server" keymap/xfree86 /var/tmp/xfree86.xkm' waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. If I setup .xinitrc to startkde then x works great. i would like to be able to try other window managers. has anyone else seen this problem. also if I run xdm or kdm in rc.config, I get the login screen, but after I login, the screen goes grey and just sits there. ___________________ Jt - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] Netscape Communicator 4.5b1 Address Book broken?
by Anthony.Schlemmer＠gte.net 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

I noticed that I lost all of my address book entries in Communicator 4.5b1. I looked in my ~/.netscape directory and there is an "abook.nab" file but communicator seems to ignore it. I can import my "abook.nab" file but it appears that Communicator 4.5b1 stores the address book as a series of temporary files in ~/.netscape like so: -rw-r--r-- 1 tony users 10120 Sep 8 08:18 tmp35D121F90270274.na2 -rw-r--r-- 1 tony users 2496 Sep 8 08:18 tmp35D121F90280274.na2 -rw-r--r-- 1 tony users 2496 Sep 8 08:18 tmp35D121F90290274.na2 -rw-r--r-- 1 tony users 2496 Sep 8 08:18 tmp35D121F902A0274.na2 -rw-r--r-- 1 tony users 2496 Sep 8 08:18 tmp35D121F902B0274.na2 If I erase these files, I lose my address book entries. I guess I may need to go back to 4.05 instead. Tony -- Anthony.Schlemmer(a)gte.net - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] Permerdia 2 XServer didn't install rigth in 5.3 !!!
by fsavoir＠amazingstudio.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

Hello, I'm just bought the new 5.3. I used before 5.2 without major problems... With this new version I choosed to do a fresh install. In the installation I choose to install the Xserver for Permedia 2... But even saX or XF86Setup can't configure the XServer any ideas of what is btoken ? Very best regards, Fred --- Email: fsavoir(a)amazingstudio.com - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] KDM Startup
by lweiss＠starnetinc.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

I'm new to KDM so the question I have is: When I start it I can't access any root files or . files except in the file manager which says it started in su mode. How can I change the default to get the programs to read all the files? Thanks for any info Len - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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Re: [SuSE Linux] I love KMail...but...
by kevcol＠yahoo.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

> I'd like to see at least one added feature to KMail. The developers email addresses are listed in the 'About Kmail' dialog- I asked for a feature of them and they got back to me pretty quickly. > Oh, I'm just spoiled by that other OS. What was it called? Crap? ;-) _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at <A HREF="http://mail.yahoo.com"><A HREF="http://mail.yahoo.com</A">http://mail.yahoo.com</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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Re: [SuSE Linux] ppp server--HELP
by ingi＠elit.se 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

Hi, > If I read your page correctly it describes a Linux box > connecting to an NT PPP server, thats a piece of cake. I did not think it was piece of cake. > I'm trying to do the opposite i.e. use the Linux > box as the PPP server and login to it from the NT 4.0 box. Because I have callback from the NT RAS Server activated, my Linux box must be acting as PPP Server for NT when the callback occurs :) There were several documents which discussed Linux/NT PPP setup. I'll come back later on that subject. - Ingvaldur - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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Re: [SuSE Linux] I love KMail...but...
by jljr＠paonline.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

On Mon, 7 Sep 1998 21:29:33 -0700, Steve Mills wrote: > >I'd like to see at least one added feature to KMail. I use filters for my mail >so it will land in seperate folders, but you have to look in each one to see if >there is any content or not. A simple bold text for folder names....or >highlight...something would be nice to let you know if there is a reason to >look. > >How about some right click capability, as well? Like entering a "favorites" >file for addresses. > >Oh, I'm just spoiled by that other OS. What was it called? > Sounds like PMmail ( for OS/2 &/or Windows ). I have contacted the people that are make PMmail and they are considering a version for Linux. It sounded like it is pretty high on their list, and with a little encouragement fro, some Linus users, I am sure we would see a PMmail for Linux. If anyone is interested they are at <A HREF="http://www.southside.com"><A HREF="http://www.southside.com</A">http://www.southside.com</A</A>> joe - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] I love KMail...but...
by steve＠millsphoto.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

I'd like to see at least one added feature to KMail. I use filters for my mail so it will land in seperate folders, but you have to look in each one to see if there is any content or not. A simple bold text for folder names....or highlight...something would be nice to let you know if there is a reason to look. How about some right click capability, as well? Like entering a "favorites" file for addresses. Oh, I'm just spoiled by that other OS. What was it called? :) -- Steve Mills steve(a)millsphoto.com <A HREF="http://www.millsphoto.com"><A HREF="http://www.millsphoto.com</A">http://www.millsphoto.com</A</A>> Great wallpapers live here. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] A Mutt config question
by mwagnon＠ixpres.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

Is anybody using mutt? I'm not sure if what I want to do is possible, but I'll ask anyway. I want to change how the messages are displayed in the index. Currently it displays (in this order) the message number, the message status, date, the To header, the filesize, and the subject. I'd like to change the order, and display the sender (From header) instead of the To header. Actually now that I look at it, I don't think that it is the To header I'm looking at. I think it's the argument of the lists command (I have the line lists suse-linux-e in my .muttrc file). Does anyone know what I'm yapping about? If so, could you give me a shove in the right direction? TIA Mark - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] setserial broken :/
by steve＠millsphoto.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

Ok, tell me not to tinker with certain things. I deserve the scolding. I was trying to edit the file /sbin/setserial in order to see how to make my boot do the following: setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 11 What I did was hose the file. It can't be used since it is now a binary file. Can I just recompile and restore it? Maybe just make dep? Advice, please. Does anyone know what file I should edit to add "setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 11" to the boot sequence? I haven't toyed with this in Linux. One other item so I can keep this down to one post: I have wvdial working perfectly. As soon as I ask xfmail to check my mail, the connection breaks. I suppose by the time I get to NS mail (yuk) I won't have this problem, right? Has anyone used xfmail here? Better ideas are always welcome. :) Thanks, all. Steve <A HREF="http://www.millsphoto.com"><A HREF="http://www.millsphoto.com</A">http://www.millsphoto.com</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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Re: [SuSE Linux] hotmail.com
by kevcol＠yahoo.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

---Michael Lankton <mlankton(a)home.com> wrote: > > I would encourage any list members using hotmail not to do so on this > list. Most of my spam comes from hotmail accounts To be fair, I would suspect most of the ones with hotmail.com return addresses are forged bogus Hotmail addresses and is spewed from dial up accounts. That is certainly my experience. >and I'm finally > adding the whole domain to my email filter. I'm sure I'm not the only > one who has a spam problem. Could you not tweak it further to still accept hotmail with [SuSE Linux] in the subject? On a related note, A girlfriend of mine who used a usa.net account on the road wondered why her mail to me was bouncing. I found out the sysadmin my then ISP was totally filtering out that domain without even bothering to tell the customers. I cancelled service after getting into a debate about it with them. These free web accounts get such a bad rap by being convenient targets by spammers using them to forge a return address that doesn't in fact exist, I hate to see legitimate mail get bounced merely by association. Sorry to take up the bandwidth, just thought I could offer a perspective. I get loads of spam too. Cheers _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at <A HREF="http://mail.yahoo.com"><A HREF="http://mail.yahoo.com</A">http://mail.yahoo.com</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] Who is going to ISPCON
by deem＠wdm.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

Just wondering who from SuSE is going to ISPCON ? Thanks -Dee W.D.McKinney (Dee) deem(a)wdm.com Faith is acting on your passions & beliefs. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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Re: [SuSE Linux] The scroll bar in xterm ? SuSE 5.3
by marc_bouron＠hotmail.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

>I dumped the first install for a much trimmed down one >on my home PC and I'd like to find the rpm/package the gives the xterms >a scrollbar in 5.3. Anyone know what package it's in per chance ? > >Thanks >-Dee You can get a scrollbar either by: 1. putting "-sb" on the xterm command line 2. setting them in your .Xdefaults (or wherever you put them) - check the xterm manpage 3. hold down the Control key and press the middle mouse button to pop up a menu from which you can choose to display the scrollbar Hope this helps. Cheers, Marc. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at <A HREF="http://www.hotmail.com"><A HREF="http://www.hotmail.com</A">http://www.hotmail.com</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] The K environment revisited
by mezger＠usa.net 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

Ok I was real bored this evening and disatisfied with how I had my system setup so I decided to reinstall everything:) Since I didn't have any means to back-up all of the newer files that I had replaced I just took everything from the 5.2 disks. After installing the beta4 KDE I noticed that there are a lot of things that the newer 1.0 lacks. It has an rpm tool (I haven't really used it yet just checked it out), more games,more graphics, and can handle my video card (et4000w32i) a heck of a lot better than the newer one. I know that some of these programs are still available and that they probally were not stable enough for the 1.0 release... but why is it that this older version is displaying colors a heck of alot better than with the newer release? Perhaps because the newer one has more bloat (so less memory for color mapping)? When I say that the colors are displaying better I am refering to things like gradient title bars being more even... xpm's more vivid and such. Any know anything about this? TIA, Harry - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] *** Severe bug found ***
by mantel＠suse.de 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

Hi, we finally found the "fdisk bug". Symptom: -------- When trying to do an installation from scratch, YaST crashes and leaves the console in an unsane state, so that the <return> key does not work anymore and the message "An error occurred during installation!" pops up in a red window. What triggers the bug: ---------------------- The error only occurs when doing an installation in english language _AND_ when there is free space on one of the harddisks (this means: not all available space is used for partitions on the disk). Technical explanation: ---------------------- YaST uses text files which can contain format strings. Here is the offending text in german and english language: german: Auf der Platte wurden 0 Megabyte ungenutzer Plattenbereich gefunden. english: There is 0 MB of free space on . As you can see, the 0 and the are swapped. C programmers know what that means: As soon as YaST tries to display this specific text, it crashes with a segmentation violation. Workaround: ----------- Workaround is to avoid display of this text. There are several possibilities: 1. As soon as YaST starts, switch to console 2 and create your partitions by starting fdisk manually. After you have written the partition table and left fdisk, please reboot the system before continuing. On the second run, just don't partition your harddisk(s) with YaST but make sure you format all the newly created partitions. 2. Start a rescue system and modify you partition table(s) to your needs. Reboot and start a normal installation. 3. Create your partitions with another tool and only change the type in YaST. A fixed YaST is currently being built. We stopped shipping of the broken version. No other language besides english is affected by this bug (which made it very hard for us to find, because nobody in Germany reported the problem). I'm very sorry about this inconvenience, and we will provide fixed disks as fast as possible. -o) Hubert Mantel /\\ _\_v - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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