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Re: [SuSE Linux] linux on dell poweredge 2300
by petri＠esrf.fr 02 Jun '99

02 Jun '99

Hello Ian, Thanks for your prompt reply. When I mentioned to our SuSE 6.1 guru that somebody has installed RedHat Linux on Dell 2300 but that I can not even get SuSE 6.1 installation started he jumped up and promised to check the problem on the spot. What a nice guy I thought and went home. I just read his e-mail and he has indeed resolved the problem ! The problem of starting the installation has nothing to do with the Hot Swap or with the non partitioned, fresh disks; it is just that our Dell 2300 has 1 GB of DRAM and this makes SuSE 6.1 linuxrc fails somehow; it does not see any (extended ?) memory at all. Our guru typed boot: linux root=initdisk.gz mem=???M at the LILO boot prompt (??? being, for example 512 MB, to stay on the safer side). And it works. When you contract starts, and if SuSE 6.1 is still around, you better keep this trick in mind. Anyway, thanks Ian, and special thanks to Staffan Ohlsson at the E.S.R.F. Petri "Ian M. Moore" wrote: > Actually I'm still waiting for my contract to start and then I will really > tackle this problem. > Actually you can't hot swap with linux but it will run with linux. > Here is a web site I found were some guy installed red hat not my favorite > but linux is linux > <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Theater/9637/redhat.html"><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Theater/9637/redhat.html</A">http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Theater/9637/redhat.html</A</A>> > These are great machines linux should make roast. > I haven't done a search on the net lately but there should be more info > since dell is now > shipping with linux! > Good Luck > Ian Petri Makijarvi - European Synchrotron Radiation Facility <A HREF="mailto:petri@esrf.fr">mailto:petri@esrf.fr</A> - <A HREF="http://www.esrf.fr/computing/cs/sysadmin/rtk/"><A HREF="http://www.esrf.fr/computing/cs/sysadmin/rtk/</A">http://www.esrf.fr/computing/cs/sysadmin/rtk/</A</A>> tel: +33-(0)4.76.88.22.50 fax: +33-(0)4.76.88.20.20 E.S.R.F. B.P 220 F-38043 Grenoble Cedex France -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] Initializing my cd-rom
by merdler＠isdn.net.il 02 Jun '99

02 Jun '99

Hi In order to use my CD-ROM under Linux I had to add hdc=cdrom in lilo.conf.After adding this line Linux recognized my CD-ROM. The problem is that it takes too much time for Linux to initialize my CD-ROM,something like 10 seconds. The following two lines were extracted from /var/log/messages : hdc: no response (status = 0x80), resetting drive <---- hdc: GCD-R540, ATAPI CDROM drive You see the first line,it takes the kernel 10 seconds to write this line before proceeding. Why ? how can I fix it ? BTW I am using kernel SuSE 6.1 kernel version 2.2.5 Thank you ---------------------------------------------------------------- "You do not have to be smart in order to think, but in order to be smart you have to think" Efi Merdler -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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Re: [SuSE Linux] SuSE has updated boxed 6.1 set 2.2.5 -> 2.2.7
by kukuk＠suse.de 02 Jun '99

02 Jun '99

On Mon, May 31, Bill C Riemers wrote: > > I have to say I agree. If you patch or update it, it should be called > 6.1.1 or something. Otherwise, as a software developer it becomes > extremely difficult for me to tell my clients what platform the software > has been installed on, and if any patches are required to make the > software work. Debian had this debate, RedHat had this debate, Sun with Solaris had this debate, now we have this debate. All make the same: If you have sold all CDs, you have to make new one. You could use the old master, or you could create a new one with the importanst bug fixes. If we would make a new versionnumber for it every time, a lot of people would be very angry, for example the reseller. Nobody will buy 6.1, if there is a 6.1.1 or 6.1a. If 6.1 was so bad that it wasn't useable, it is Ok. But not in this case. All of them had make the decision to not change the version Number. We too. And for all the people who don't have the latest version: It is on our FTP server at: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/6.1"><A HREF="ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/6.1</A">ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/6.1</A</A>> You could update from there with YaST. But please use one of the mirrors. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/</A">http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/</A</A>> kukuk(a)suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] Masq modules
by shangowhite＠hotmail.com 02 Jun '99

02 Jun '99

Hi, I was working the last days to create a IP masqing box. I succeeded and I can surf and so forth. my setup: |<--->win | ISP<---->SuSE<---->Hub<--->|<--->win | |<--->win Now I use the following programs on my win machines. ICQ, VDOPhone 3.5, Speakfreely (www.speakfreely.org) All work one way. I can start them and my partner on the other side in the Internet can receive either my online status, my video capture, my voice. I can't receive anything. Now I got SuSE 3.5 and it has the modules automatically included: ip_masq_ftp ip_masq_raudio ip_masq_irc ip_masq_vdolive Correct? I do 'lsmod' and they appear loaded. Shouldn't at least VDOPhone work? Anybody have speakfreely to work? Any tips on the ICQ module? Thanks, Marcel ______________________________________________________ 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 Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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RE: [SuSE Linux] KDE 1.1.1 - Upgrade or Not?
by Darin.Martin＠lexis-nexis.com 02 Jun '99

02 Jun '99

Well, the upgrade worked for me.. I downloaded the RPMs in kde1, kde2, kde4, and kpa1. I then moved all of the KDE rpms into a single directory and did 'rpm _Uvh *1.1.1.rpm'. In about 2 minutes time, all of the RPMs were installed and I started KDE with no problems. My system has been up since that time with no more crashes. So, thanks to everyone that responded.. Darin - > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Talley [SMTP:ktalley@edge.net] > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 12:36 PM > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: [SuSE Linux] KDE 1.1.1 - Upgrade or Not? > > > Greetings.... > Okay, there has been considerable "back and forth" on this one, but what > is the verdict? If I download the KDE directories > (kde1,kde2,kde4,kpa1,etc.) from ftp.suse.com > (/pub/suse_update/KDE/1.1.1-with-qt-1.44) TODAY, and if I want to install > them over a fresh SuSE 6.1 install (with the 2.2.5 kernel), what should I > do? > > Do I uninstall all KDE packages, and install these new ones? Or can I > simply now upgrade my existing KDE packages? Any other potential problems > I should know about? > > Thanks.. > > Kevin Talley (ktalley(a)edge.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 > Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the > archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.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 Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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Re: [SuSE Linux] 6.1 set 2.2.5 -> 2.2.7
by jl-lists＠jatek.net 02 Jun '99

02 Jun '99

Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote: > I commend SuSE for trying to keep it's distributions on the cutting edge > and not necessarily freezing a release, Wrong response, but I'll let it slide. > Fixing such a problem in the middle of a > release is what I would expect of them. With a sub-release, I'd hope. > how many of you folks doing the complaining have > visited the SuSE website at > <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb_e/SUSE.61.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb_e/SUSE.61.html</A">http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb_e/SUSE.61.html</A</A>> to see what patches, > changes, notices,e tc. have been posted? That's a pretty scary page; it kind of looks like they never did even test the release in their rush to get the CDs cut. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman <jl-lists(a)jatek.net>, Internet Products Manager, Jatek Corp. Main office: Tel: (310) 375-7646 Fax: (310) 375-0892 Internet Products: Tel: (909) 787-8589 Fax: (909) 782-0205 24hr Internet Products Support: Tel: (909) 787-8589 Fax: (909) 782-0205 -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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Re: [SuSE Linux] 6.1 set 2.2.5 -> 2.2.7
by jl-lists＠jatek.net 02 Jun '99

02 Jun '99

lunaslide wrote: > Those who have complained about slow downloads when getting updates need > to go pray to the Great God of Bandwidth for DSL or cable. Ftp and web > sites are a perfectly acceptable way of providing updates and the > download time is your problem, not theirs. Not really. I've got 160kbps at home, 1.54mbps at the office. It's still slow; the bottlneck is with the ftp site, not with my connection. My traceroute time between my home machine (tested right now) and the sprintlink lines I use for hops, and all the way across to Europe, are <= 20 ms; the final hops, from <ecrc.net>, are in the 200 ms range, and the last hop, to the ftp server at <Turing.suse.de> is 320 ms. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman <jl-lists(a)jatek.net>, Internet Products Manager, Jatek Corp. Main office: Tel: (310) 375-7646 Fax: (310) 375-0892 Internet Products: Tel: (909) 787-8589 Fax: (909) 782-0205 24hr Internet Products Support: Tel: (909) 787-8589 Fax: (909) 782-0205 -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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RE: [SuSE Linux] Castlewood's ORB drive
by pabreu＠walldata.com 02 Jun '99

02 Jun '99

<PRE> Bill, I was browsing comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage and I read several people complaining on the ORB drive: getting bad sectors after constant usage and similar kinds of stuff. I am a little reluctant in buying this product now. If you really want to buy it (it sounds like you may have bought it already), then good luck. Paulo Abreu Solutions Consultant Wall Data Inc. Phone: 770-587-6707 <A HREF="http://www.walldata.com/"><A HREF="http://www.walldata.com/</A">http://www.walldata.com/</A</A>> > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill C Riemers [SMTP:bcr@feynman.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 7:15 PM > Cc: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Castlewood's ORB drive > > > pabreu(a)walldata.com wrote: > > > > I was thinking about buying a ZIP disk until I saw Castlewood's ORB > drive > > (<A HREF="http://www.castlewood.com/"><A HREF="http://www.castlewood.com/</A">http://www.castlewood.com/</A</A>>). > > Looking at their Web site I could not find any information whether it > runs > > with Linux. Nevertheless, it runs with OS/2 and Win 3.1. > > Does anyone know if ORB runs with Linux? > > Thanks. > > > > Paulo Abreu > > Solutions Consultant > > Wall Data Inc. > > Phone: 770-587-6707 > > <A HREF="http://www.walldata.com/"><A HREF="http://www.walldata.com/</A">http://www.walldata.com/</A</A>> > > I don't know, but I just ordered one to find out. The main reason is > if it does work, it would be the perfect solution to my SuSE update > through > a firewall problem. I use 2.1 GB partitions for my SCSI drives at work. > So if I just use either CPIO or TAR to copy the partition to a ORB drive, > I can run YaST at home, where I have a direct connection to the internet. > Granted it takes about 6 hours even over a cable modem. But at it is > something I can let YaST do while I'm sleeping. > > > Bill > -- > To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with > this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e > Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the > archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>> </PRE> <A HREF="bin00000.bin"> Unrecognized Data: application/ms-tnef</A></P>

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[SuSE Linux] Printer Says its Busy?
by Wayne.Bevan＠Aspect.com 02 Jun '99

02 Jun '99

I recently just started having this problem with my HP Deskjet 520. When ever I boot into Linux my printer remains busy. It never did this before, it would always hum, buzz, move the ink cartridge (You get the idea!) and go into ready mode. Now I have to force a poll to it via typing "tunelp /dev/lp1" this then performs the above and I can then print to it. I know that I can add this to the startup of Linux, to avoid my typing, but really want to know why its happening ? I also boot into Win95 but have no problems with the printer in that on boot up. So wondered if anyone else has seen this and how it was solved. Do I need to play with tunelp more ? Thanks Wayne -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] permissions; root vs user; KDE
by mikecle＠reciprocal.com 02 Jun '99

02 Jun '99

(copy of a message sent to SuSe support) I am running SuSE 6.1 (kernel 2.2.5) on the following system: (this is an upgrade from SuSE 6.0 - the upgrade appeared to go without a hitch) 350 mHz AMD K6-2 (3D now) 64 MB PC100 SDRAM Graphics Blaster Riva TNT (16MB) (AGP) Soundblaster AWE 64 sound card (isa) (Using OSS drivers) Wisecom 56K modem (internal - isa) 40X BTC CDROM 3.5 GB Maxtor EIDE harddrive (one of three drives) Mitsumi PS\2 mouse Basically the system works fine, but I am having some annoying problems. I am running KDE 1.1.1 - I originally installed 1.1 from the CDs, then upgraded to 1.1.1 from the SuSE ftp site. No problems. Kppp works fine for both root and user. I did not uninstall KDE 1.1 first, but didn't seem to have any problems. [Note: I removed the user account, and then re-created it after upgrading to 1.1.1, so KDE initially presented me w/ the message boxes indicating that it was creating the appropriate directories. Seemed like it was doing what it was supposed to.....] However, logged on as a user, I tried to open an xterm from the SuSE menu on the default taskbar of KDE. It gives me the following error message: Error 14; errono 13 Permission denied. {I know I don't need to use xterm (I can use kvt in KDE), but this is just an example.} So I thought I just needed to log on as root and change permissions - which I did using: chmod +x xterm I didn't work. So as user, I entered "type xterm" and the result it gave was /usr/bin I looked at 'xterm' in /usr/bin and found that it was a pointer to /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm (I think that was the path - pretty close anyway). So I decided to get more specific w/ chmod: I tried "chmod +x /usr/bin/xterm" and, "chmod +x /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm" It still doesn't work. I tried "su root", entered the password, then typed "xterm". I got a longer, more involved error message (which I stupidly didn't write down), basically saying that I couldn't do this. This makes no sense to me. I can understand why something like Yast might be limited to 'root', but there is no reason why a user should not have access to something like xterm. So obiously something else is wrong (perhaps something wrong w/ the link in /usr/bin ? Path problems? ???) Please not that xterm is not the only problem. Nor did this problem just appear after I upgraded to 1.1.1. The same problems were there with the original install of 1.1 from the CDs. I have tried to run a number of things from the default KDE menus. When I click on a number of the menu items, nothing happens - no error messages, nothing. An example from the SuSE submenu is I believe called either Development or Programming, One of the menu choices here is C, and when I click on it nothing happens. How do I enable these items? My point is, there are a lot of items on the default KDE menus which I cannot access. Please note that I have not modified the KDE installation at all (other than pick background colors, etc.). Logged on as a user, when I open the Menu Editor, most of the items on the menu are grayed out so all I can do is look at them. This is not very useful. If there are items which should not be available to the user (such as Yast), then I should be able to remove them from the menu. If I log in as root and remove a menu item, will this remove the item from all the menus (i.e. from each user, including root)? I wouldn't want to remove them from the menus for 'root'. I am at a loss as to what to try next. Any assitance anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Mike Michael Cleary Software Engineer Reciprocal, Inc. mikecle(a)reciprocal.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 Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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