June 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] Autoinstall
by kspoon＠rackspace.com 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Heyas, I've been messing around with the SuSE auto install, and everything seems to be working like a champ. I've only got one question about it: The current installer seems to only probe for hardware once (before the big ramdisk image gets loaded up), so it seems like I'm limited to only probing for the hardware I can shove on to the boot floppy. Is there any way that I can get the installer to probe again _after_ the second stage ramdisk has been loaded? This would let me set things up so that we only need networking cards for the initial install and we can pull the SCSI stuff off the 2nd stage later before we need to start formating disks. On a side note, yast2 rocks. I was looking at the source and the concept of scripting a user interface for various libs is terrific. Can we expect to see some ycp scripts for reading from a text file (maybe a replacement for the info files for autoinstalls?) and doing stuff via cgi scripts? Take it easy, -- Kelley Spoon Main: 210-892-4000 Rackspace, Ltd Fax: 210-892-4329 112 East Pecan, Suite 600 Email: kspoon(a)rackspace.com San Antonio, TX 78205 <http://www.rackspace.com> -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] burning CD's
by Anonymous User 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Herman Knief wrote: > > Are you using a SuSE kernel, or your own? Can you mount and see long file > names on other "Windows" CDs? I can see long file names when I mount CD's normally. When I mounted the image I make, the names where all correct Sam -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] can't find DHCP menu in YaST1
by ephlodur＠rocketmail.com 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

hello to all is there a way that I can install dhclient with out YaST1 because I can't find it in the menu... I D/L dhclient from the SuSE Ftp site. the rpm version and install it but it still does not work... thanks in advance. ===== ,. \\|// - ? (o o) /======================oOOO=(_)OOo=====================\ email : ephlodur(a)rocketmail.com What we need is Awarness we can't get carless. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Freewwweb and Usenet? -ADDENDUM-
by lsayre＠freewwweb.com 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

I'm using Freewwweb with Linux, and connecting via KDE using KPPP, with PAP authentication. This works great fof WWW and E-Mail under Netscape 4.73, but whenever I try to subscribe to usenet newsgroups Netscape simply freezes, and I must resort to the kill -KILL *** *** command to terminate it. I am using 'news.freewwweb.com' as the newsgroup server. Has anyone successfully used the Freewwweb ISP service with the usenet under Linux? ADDENDUM: Oops, I forgot to mention that I'm using SuSE 6.3. Lawrence Sayre --------------------------------------------- "Man's mind is his basic tool of survival!" (a quote from the famous 'John Galt' speech in the equally famous book "Atlas Shrugged") --------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Freewwweb and Usenet?
by lsayre＠freewwweb.com 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

I'm using Freewwweb with Linux, and connecting via KDE using KPPP, with PAP authentication. This works great fof WWW and E-Mail under Netscape 4.73, but whenever I try to subscribe to usenet newsgroups Netscape simply freezes, and I must resort to the kill -KILL *** *** command to terminate it. I am using 'news.freewwweb.com' as the newsgroup server. Has anyone successfully used the Freewwweb ISP service with the usenet under Linux? Lawrence Sayre --------------------------------------------- "Man's mind is his basic tool of survival!" (a quote from the famous 'John Galt' speech in the equally famous book "Atlas Shrugged") --------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] DMA disk access - have I missed something?
by fountai＠hursley.ibm.com 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

In the Vmware newsletter which has just been sent around I saw this: "If you're a Linux-host user, don't forget to also turn on DMA on your host operating system. If you have IDE disks, use the command "/sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda" to enable DMA. The result: VMware, and all your other applications, will run faster." It never occured to me that my disks might not be using DMA transfers. I checked my system here at work (SuSE-6.2, 2 IDE disks), and both disks are using DMA transfers. My Dell laptop (SuSE-6.4) has DMA switched off. I'll check my machines at home tonight. What decides, in a SuSE distro, whether DMA is being used? The hdparm man pages suggests (under the -X section) that the drive switches to it's fastest mode at power on, which, if true, would make the above tip irrelevant. Can someone fill me in? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Mount points & Samba Sharing - SuSE v6.3 & Samba 2.0.6
by pcgoober＠mninter.net 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Round 2 .... Ding! I have a second hard drive on my server which is mounted to a directory located in "/" and shared via Samba. Although I can see, browse and copy from it through Net neighborhood on my NT box I cannot write, delete or move anything on or to it. I have read through as many docs as I can tolerate so, If anyone has had this problem and can give me a clue I would appreciate it. Details of setup and config below: made dir -> mkdir hdisk2 chmod 777 /hdisk2 (per example config doc, Samba and SuSE admin book) smb.conf entry: [hdisk2] path = /hdisk2 comment = lnxsrv hard disk 2 browseable = yes public = yes create mode = 0750 read only = no this dir is mounted at boot using fstab with a vfat filesystem and the disk is an old HD which was formatted as fat32 and still has win95b on it. I am not trying to boot win95 just want to be able to write to it and modify existing files from my NT box. I have not wiped it nor do I believe I should have to using samba to be the middleware between NTFS and a Fat32 file system ... correct? Thanks in advance, PcGoober The quest for platform interoperability may cause any or all of the following: divorce impotence grey hair bankruptcy loss of job heavy alcohol consumption headache blindness undying urge to torch Win box -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] general stuff
by purpleshirt＠hotmail.com 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

The following words are to SuSE but basically any distro creators. I have used YaST in the past and do so as of today. I only used it for some of the tasks it is meant for. Mainly installing and removing packages and setting up network devices. YaST is not great for everything. The other day I assisted a friend of mine to do a NFS install over the LAN. I was not present at the location but online. My friend installed SuSE 6.4 The machine she installed SuSE on was a 125MHz with 40 Meg of Ram, no CD Rom. From what I could conclude from far away YaST2 got invoked automatically. After a while the installation broke off because YaST2 demanded 48 Meg of Ram. There was a choice to choose YaST as installer and my friend got eventually SuSE installed. This seems to be a minor problem. I just like to stress to the SuSE people that even though we are in the ages of 1 GHz+ processors and workstations of 256+ Meg of Ram I personally prefer tools which run on most hardware. I like to plead for SuSE to continue the development of YaST in the future and not abandon it, if they intend to do so. It is needed, even if only 10% of all users use it, it makes their life a lot easier. mk ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] `ldd' misleading diagnostic
by pinard＠iro.umontreal.ca 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Hello. I want to report a misleading diagnostic with `ldd'[1]. Doing: touch empty chmod +x empty ldd empty yields: lddlibc4: cannot read header from `./empty': No such file or directory I do not know how to interpret this `No such file of directory', given that `./empty' does exist. Applying `strace' on the command shows that `lddlibc4' was looked for along the PATH, and many `ENOENT' were raised before `lddlibc4' was successfully found in `/usr/bin'. Could the error be left over from the search? ---------- [1] While exploring another `ldd' problem... -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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RE: [SLE] laptop pcmcia - where are the module sources?
by tduggan＠dekaresearch.com 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Hi, -----Original Message----- From: brian thompstone [SMTP:suse@clrlight.demon.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 4:26 PM >This is ok: the 'modules.img' disk provides the support I need. >But, when I was rebuilding the kernel I noticed that 'pcmcia' is >not a kernel option. This is because they are not part of the kernel sources >Where are the sources for the pcmcia modules and how/when do they >get (re)built? IIRC you will need the sources for pcmcia-cs. You can always get the latest version from sourceforge.org. If you do decide to upgrade or recompile there are instructions in the PCMCIA-HOWTO located in /usr/doc/packages/pcmcia. If you installed the pcmcia sources they should be under /usr/src/. Tim -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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