October 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

kde updates
by geek＠PageZero.com 15 Jun '02

15 Jun '02

I suspect that i am merely stupid and that this is the reason i cannot figure out how to do an online update to the latest KDE release. It is my assumption that i need to provide a directory string at ftp.suse.com, but can't for the life of me figurre out what it is. Although i can find the files, yast2 can't, and i never seem to be able to download the right files in the right order to just run the rpm's myself. For the sake of my crumbling self-esteem, can someone please help me. bc

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Windows emulator for Linux
by Jaakko Tamminen 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

Hi What would be a good win-98 emulator for Linux? Is it vmware of win4lin? I have tried the vmware that comes with SuSE, but I found it to be quite slow what comes to screen handling. Reason is that my spouse wants to go to Linux, but one bookkeeping software and banking software needs win-98. We are also ready to pay for this sw... Jaska.

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[SLE] problems with KVM switches.. losing mouse control on 8.0
by Jon San Juan 07 May '02

07 May '02

I am using a multiple servers with a KVM switch and I find that I lose control of my mouse as I return back to the SUSE 8.0 KDE. Are any you experiencing the same thing. I have tried other mice and different KVM switches. -I am using a Belkin KVM switch with hot key functionality for changing monitors. -I am using PS/2 mice The only way I can stablize the mouse is if I return to YAST 2 and try to re-configure the mouse when it is a problem... Otherwise I have been rebooting to get the mouse stability.

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Version 8.0 installation from hard drive with YaST2 possible?
by joe lerch 16 Apr '02

16 Apr '02

"No installation data found on medium" "Could not mount the source medium" Previously I was alawya able to use the orginal YaST to do hard drive installation, I was never able to get YaST2 past the above errors, if I exit YaST2 and start YaST everything works fine. It has always been this way for me and I didn't mind as I like using YaST. However, I am told that version 8.0 will no longer have YaST. Does anyone know if version 8.0 of SuSE pro will allow paying customers the right to copy the installation disks to their hard drive and do a complete installtion and further updates directly from the hard drive? If I have been skipping something, please let me know, it has been a while since I installed 7.3 my curent SuSe distro installation disks are on my /hda11/7.3 thanks in advacne joe

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Re: [SLE] Boot Disc Construction Time Again
by Alexandr Malusek 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Oliver Ob <ob_ok(a)gmx.net> writes: > I want to learn how to create my own Linux boot disk using which > I can run a REAL TIGHT linux from this disk. Search for distributions containing the word "single" on http://www.linux.org/dist/english.html. Some new distributions may not be there (e.g. DemoLinux 2.0, http://www.demolinux.org/) Also see the Bootdisk-HOWTO. -- Alexandr.Malusek(a)imv.liu.se

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(Newbie alert) Zip drive confusion.
by Brian Durant 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

Hi all, I have just tried to access my USB 250 Zip drive in SUSE 7.3 Pro, only to receive the following message: "Could not mount device. The reported error was mount /dev/sda4: unknown device." I have checked and ziptool is installed, I have a Zip icon on my desktop, but obviously, something needs to be configured somewhere. I read /usr/share/doc/packages/ziptool/README, but there wasn't any help as far as I could decipher. Any ideas? Cheers, Brian

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Linux type Download Accelerator Plus utility?
by Brian Durant 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

Hello again, Is there a download utility in the Linux world that works like Download Accelerator Plus? -- Cheers, Brian mailto:durant@cbn.net.id

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Re: [SLE] directtv dsl and linux
by Michael Fischer 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

On Sun, Jan 13, Jon Pennington wrote: > On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 09:43, Steven Hatfield wrote: > > > The support staff knows Linux. I called them up with a problem once, and > > the level 1 support person was having me run ifconfig, look at > > /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf, trying to track down a connection > > issue.. it was pretty amazing that they even knew these configuration > > files exist. > > Color me flabberghasted. :D Well, I use them now as well, and am reasonably happy with the service. I wouldn't actually say the support staff "knows" linux. Times I've had to call, (which was only because I IpTabled myself out of the router -- idiot) the service people were friendly and sympathetic, but with NO experience of *nix. The fellows I talked to tried their best, and actually took notes from what I said I was trying out (ifconfig, route and friends), but actually told me that their boss was giving them dirty looks for trying to "support" one of those Linux people. Their manual, interestingly enough has sections on UNIX installations, which basically back out of it all by saying that typical *nix users are smarter about all this stuff, and should make it all come out fine by setting up their own flavor of DHCP. If you know of genuinely *nix-savvy tech support folks there, could you mention names? I'd ask for them by name at need, and send kudos-type emails to their managers commending them for their Linux expertise. Cheers. Michael -- Michael Fischer Happiness is a config option. michael(a)visv.net Recompile and be happy.

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Re: [SLE] trying to get lilo back on MBR
by Matt 04 Jan '02

04 Jan '02

Hi, I had no end of problems on 7.2 In the end I had to create a small DOS partition then it worked. I too had my / partition on /dev/hd'x'3 Regards Matt -----Original Message----- From: Mike [SMTP:bcomber@freezer-burn.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 7:47 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] trying to get lilo back on MBR On Tuesday 23 October 2001 19:15, you wrote: > hi, > > MBR on /dev/hda has been erased and I am trying to get my lilo back. > > my / is /dev/hdb3 > > I booted from suse disk 1 with [rescue] option > mounted /dev/hdb3 on /mnt > > but simply typing > # lilo > or > # lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf > > didn't solve my problem. > what should I do? > > thanks, > baris When you boot from the CD, you can boot the installed system. It asks where your / directory is, and in this case it would be /dev/hdb3. Once you do that, you can run lilo, and all should be well. Had to do this and got the same things you did. Once I booted the installed system it worked.. Mike

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ReiserFS + mirroring + ATA
by Chris.Smith＠raytheon.co.uk 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Hi, I have two hard disks:- ata1 - master = IBM 30Gig ATA100 (/dev/hda) ata2 - slave = IBM 30Gig ATA100 (/dev/hdb) Any ideas how I can software mirror these and use ReiserFS as a disk format? SuSE has to be bootable off either of the disks *and* if one drive blows up, I need to be able to swap it out with another one and rebuild the mirror pretty quickish. I dont need to hot-swap - powering down is fine. Can someone give us an idea where to start please! Cheers, - Chris.

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