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[SLE]? Install with no monitor
by benoit.poste＠trium-rd.com 27 Nov '00

27 Nov '00

Message-ID: <3A2289CB.204AA0B(a)trium-rd.com> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:20:27 +0100 From: Benoit POSTE <benoit.poste(a)trium-rd.com> Subject: [SLE]? Install with no monitor Hello all ... I've been lurking around for a while ... and finally decided to make my first post (after trying to read a FAQ I could not find). Here is my question: I have a (rather) old box, on which I'd like to install suse 7.0 so that I could use it as a firewall (sort of). Problem is: It has two ethernet NE2000 PCI cards, a keyboard, a (hopefully) bootable CD-player, but no monitor :/. Considering that I have a laptop (thus no monitor I could borrow from it) with Suse 7.0 and Win98 installed, is there any way I could do kind of a remote installation? I suppose network installation has no chance to work (maybe I'm wrong) ... but would it be possible to get the monitor output through a serial cable to a window terminal on my laptop or something like that for instance? Any suggestion? Thanks all in advance, Benoit.

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tar -X
by master33＠hem.passagen.se 27 Nov '00

27 Nov '00

Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20001126164633.009ed060(a)127.0.0.1> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:04:51 +0100 From: Mikael Eriksson <master33(a)hem.passagen.se> Subject: tar -X Hi! I hope someone can help me with this irritating little problem. Let's assume I want to tar "/home/userX" and that I have two directories with the same name 1. /home/userx/xyz 2. /home/userx/numbertwo/xyz - not wanted in archive If I use "tar -czf tmp.tgz --exclude 'xyz' /home/userx" > Both archives "xyz" are excluded If I use "tar -czf tmp.tgz --exclude '/home/userx/numbertwo/xyz' /home/userx" > Both archives "xyz" are INCLUDED I have tried some different ways of expressing the "--exclude '/home/userx/numbertwo/xyz'" part, but no luck so far, can someone please point me in the right direction m.v.h Micke E ******************************************** Mikael Eriksson Sikeå Hamn 0934-152 51 070-650 55 66 master33(a)hem.passagen.se ********************************************

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resolv.conf vanishes
by j.sternal＠profi-da.de 27 Nov '00

27 Nov '00

Message-ID: <3A228A8E.8AB0018E(a)profi-da.de> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:23:42 +0100 From: Joachim Sternal <j.sternal(a)profi-da.de> Subject: resolv.conf vanishes This is no joke! Changing a mailserver from Debian to Suse 6.4 /etc/resolv.conf is going lost every few hours. We're using sendmail 8.9.3 and bind8. Testing during evenings and weekends is fine but if we try to go productive with the new server monday morning /etc/resolv.conf is missing after a few hours. We did the third try. There is definitely no user on the machine, no message in the logs, no relation to starting time of machine or any daemon. If we copy resolv.conf back from a save file, it's fine for a few hours. But it vanishes again, don't know when and why, a few minutes or hours later. Except of testing times during the evening or at weekends. :-(((((( First the old mailserver was still reachable under a different IP. After this problem occurs, we stopped all severe daemons like sendmail, named/bind, squid on the old one, just to be able to reach some user data on it. But the problem comes back again. No we physically disconnected the old one and the new one now works fine for about 8 hours. But I dont' trust that small devil! I'm going to believe in little green men... Any suggestions??? Merci!!! Jo Sternal attached mail follows:<hr noshade> Message-ID: <3A228601.AAA098AA(a)profi-da.de> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:04:17 +0100 From: Joachim Sternal <j.sternal(a)profi-da.de> Subject: resolv.conf vanishes!!! This is no joke! Changing a mailserver from Debian to Suse 6.4 /etc/resolv.conf is going lost every few hours. We're using sendmail 8.9.3 and bind8. Testing during evenings and weekends is fine but if we try to go productive with the new server monday morning /etc/resolv.conf is missing after a few hours. We did the third try. There is definitely no user on the machine, no message in the logs, no relation to starting time of machine or any daemon. If we copy resolv.conf back from a save file, it's fine for a few hours. But it vanishes again, don't know when and why, a few minutes or hours later. Except of testing times during the evening or at weekends. :-(((((( First the old mailserver was still reachable under a different IP. After this problem occurs, we stopped all severe daemons like sendmail, named/bind, squid on the old one, just to be able to reach some user data on it. But the problem comes back again. No we physically disconnected the old one and the new one now works fine for about 8 hours. But I dont' trust that small devil! I'm going to believe in little green men... Any suggestions??? Merci!!! Jo Sternal

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Re: [SLE] How do I view multipage TIF documents in kde2?
by jsc＠zoo.co.uk 27 Nov '00

27 Nov '00

From: Jethro Cramp <jsc(a)zoo.co.uk> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:33:55 +0000 Message-Id: <00112714335503.01468@zeus> Subject: Re: [SLE] How do I view multipage TIF documents in kde2? On Monday 27 November 2000 1:29 pm, Marc Mutsaers wrote: > No, you would have the TIF creator to save in RGB color model. In PhotoShop > under the Mac, go to Image/Mode/RGB Color. Then save as TIF. > > This solved my TIF errors. > > Greetings, > > Marc That's what I thought you meant - just wanted to make sure. Unfortunately I don't always have control over the makers of the tif and can't go back to them to ask them to change it. Thanks for all the help. At least now I understand the nature of the problem Regards, Jethro

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and another
by e.thave＠chello.nl 27 Nov '00

27 Nov '00

Message-ID: <000901c05876$ce0b34c0$642a5dd5(a)chello.nl> From: "Eelco of Viola" <e.thave(a)chello.nl> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:34:44 +0100 Subject: and another hello again, here`s a quick one i forgot. I have a hp840c deskjet printer.. Yast2 shows drivers for 830 and 850.... annyone know where 840c is ?When installing the 850 driver I can only print in black ;-( greets Eelco

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Network problem III
by lists＠mostrom.pp.se 27 Nov '00

27 Nov '00

Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:33:57 +0100 From: Jan Erik Moström <lists(a)mostrom.pp.se> Message-ID: <20001127143728-r01010600-995563ee(a)195.100.75.164> Subject: Network problem III Yes, part 3, this is starting to sound like a bad TV show in 400 episodes 8-) Anyway, first of all I want to thank everybody for the help I received. Here is my problem: I've got a D-Link DFE-530TX card but I can't get my computer to recognize it. I've got a plain 7.0 installation. After some advice I've been looking at www.scyld.com and the notes that can be cound there ... my guess is that I've got a card eith the chipset described and thus need version 1.07 of the via-rhine.c file. So I downloaded the source files describes and compiled them according to instructions (using the lines at the end of the file) but when I try the insmod command as instructed I get the messages "unresolved symbol" for the functions "pci_drv_register" and "pci_drv_unregister". (I also tried installing them och tried modprobe with the same result). This is not very suprising to me since I'm calling the via-rhine.o file but the functions are in the other file ... but on the other hand I don't know anything about how the network stuff works so ... what am I missing? jem -- Jan Erik Moström mailto:jem@mostrom.pp.se Free Elektron http://www.mostrom.pp.se/folk/jem/

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laptop remote installation
by mat＠riverstreams.com 27 Nov '00

27 Nov '00

Message-ID: <00a601c05874$bfddab00$4802010a@riverstreams> From: "Mat" <mat(a)riverstreams.com> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:19:50 +0200 Subject: laptop remote installation Greetings i want to install suse 7.0 on my old laptop but after i create the installation diskettes, i attempt to find 3c575cd drivers so i can install over the internet, but in vain, i cant find the card, any ideas on how i can install my laptop from over the internet?? regards Mat

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console resolution and colour
by fgs＠epulse.net 27 Nov '00

27 Nov '00

From: Francesco Scaglioni <fgs(a)epulse.net> Message-Id: <20001125151350M.fgs(a)epulse.net> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 15:13:50 GMT Subject: console resolution and colour Hi, Please would someone be so kind as to advise me where I should start to look if I want to increase the screen resolution when in a virtual console. In a similar vein - play with the colours. Thanks Francesco

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for a few questions more
by e.thave＠chello.nl 27 Nov '00

27 Nov '00

Message-ID: <003401c05871$28f27160$642a5dd5(a)chello.nl> From: "Eelco of Viola" <e.thave(a)chello.nl> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:54:20 +0100 Subject: for a few questions more Hello Suse users, I just installed SuSE 6.4 ' Thanks to a verry friendly person on this list who sent me the US version ' and have a few questions. 1)When booting from CD or starting Yast2 my computer freezes....Why? I have an asus P2B with an Celeron 400 in a convertercard. 128 mb ram viper 550 videocard. 2)I installed from cd rom using Yast1 is it possible to upgrade those packages that are considerd vulnarable using yast? when I try to update I can`t use ftp. If I change installation media to ftp yast somehow adds "/cd1/something /" to the installation directory wich I specify, resulting in a -directory not found -connection closed from the ftp server. 3)can annyone point me to a list with software that isn`t included on the US-distro, but should be up there in countries with different prohibitations? thank in advance or TIA (to use e-mail shorthand) Greets Eelco

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How do I view multipage TIF documents in kde2?
by jsc＠zoo.co.uk 27 Nov '00

27 Nov '00

From: Jethro Cramp <jsc(a)zoo.co.uk> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:13:46 +0000 Message-Id: <00112711134605.00669@zeus> Subject: How do I view multipage TIF documents in kde2? Hello All, I regularly receive multipage tif documents. I have 2 problems viewing them: 1. Those that are created on Windows95/98 using scanning software are completely unreadable using standard Graphics programs (kimage, gimp, corel photopaint, xv). The error that I get in one program (tiff2ps): Can not handle PhotometricInterpretation=YCbCr. Does anyone have any idea how to overcome this? 2. I also receive some multi-page tifs (e.g. from fax services). I can view the first page using kimage, xv and photopaint but I can't view the other pages. Any ideas anyone? TIA Jethro -- ------------------------------------------------------- Linux, Windows, DOS. Otherwise known as: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly -------------------------------------------------------

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