November 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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Re: Re: [SLE] 127.0.0.2 in /etc/hosts
by THOMAS ADAM 24 Dec '01

24 Dec '01

Pep, I take it that SuSE changes the IP address back, after you finished running SuSEConfig!! If you take a look at the main file "SuSEConfig", use: whereis SuSEConfig you can then edit this file using an editor, since the file is simply a bourne script. Do a search for "ifconfig". Hopefully you should then be able to work out whats going on, and how 127.0.0.2 is being changed. You can then uncomment out the bits that are causing the problem. Failing that, you might have to add an entry to "boot.local" that adds a string to "/etc/hosts" to manually add the hostname. HTH, Thomas Adam

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mpg to wav
by Fred A. Miller 15 Dec '01

15 Dec '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 'Anyone used a good utility to convert mp3's to wav format? Thanks, Fred - -- ____________________ This Email is 100% Virus Free! How do I know? Because ONLY SuSE Linux was used to generate it! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3in Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBO8yxspPpefykTPP7AQEzMAP/QMlg4c8HrDxDjJKrchIhMIiFkvQlWGAR Y3uCpY+GIXdc52xcm5XQUm1M4oQDD3b8XfNKZdXZ9rGcHoMuA2f4eYouoVvDDS2b ki+wtsgi67SjsglITzRiIUK1RJaFlEzmccv71DmQa88R1vCuAZoaoFxnCjWwUteS MukUvNd4b9g= =rjbn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Was: Re: [SLE] Bug in SuSE 7.3 kernel -- power management
by Keith Winston 11 Dec '01

11 Dec '01

Gert, In fact, it is the LPIC-1 certification! I finished it in January of this year, got an invitation to take the level 2 beta exams but I was not ready. I plan to take the level 2 exam early next year so you are ahead of me. Congratulations on passing the exam. I really like the LPI organization and they have been very friendly and responsive when I've had questions. I only go for vendor neutral certs now and will let my others expires (especially MS which uses them as marketing tools). The LPI certs don't expire and they are not trying to rip off the consultant market. Good luck on your second test. Keith --- Gert-Jan Rodenburg <hertog(a)home.nl> wrote: > Hi Keith, > > I couldn't help to notice you sig: > > > LPIC-1 > > N+ > > MCSE > > > The LPIC-1, is that by any chance related to www.lpi.org? > > If so, last friday I took my first exam (the lpi 101, general > Linux) > and was, lucky for me, amazed how well it went.. > > Got any hints tips on the second one? (Which I am about to > take near the end > of december). I got a book here (Dutch only so you won't know > it) that covers > both the first and second exam, but by any chance you got some > good web-stuff? > > If lpic-1 has nothing to do with www.lpi.org, then just > disregard this > message :) > > Gr. > > GJR ===== LPIC-1 N+ MCSE The difference between Linux and Microsoft is the difference between trust and anti-trust. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com

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Re: [SLE] Make errors - help please
by Geoff 09 Dec '01

09 Dec '01

Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 18:32:01 +0000 From: Geoff <capsthorne(a)yahoo.co.uk> To: sales(a)stanwaterdesigns.co.uk Subject: Re: [SLE] Make errors - help please On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 18:01:12 +0000 David <dg(a)stanwater.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: > Geoff > > The same errors remain at the end. The last few lines of the make follow:- <snip> > /usr/i486-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lesd > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make[3]: *** [firestarter] Error 1 Have you installed the package esound? libesd appears to be missing, and that lib is installed by esound. Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Auto starting programs in X
by David 09 Dec '01

09 Dec '01

I cannot find a way of automatically starting an X program. Is there an equivalent to the Startup folder in Windows. I have read that you can put an entry in init.d but that does not work. I am using the syntax /path/programname is that correct or should you use some other form, and if init.d does not work, is there a better place to put the command. The command as I have written it works from an X terminal. Regards, David

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US Robotics Modems
by Dave C. Johanson 06 Dec '01

06 Dec '01

Yesterday evening while on-line I heard an ominous pop only to discover that my US Robotics Sportster Voice 56K Faxmodem had bit the dust. Not to worry though as it came with a life time warranty. So today I called US Robotics to get warranty service and was told no deal, I had purchased the modem to work under win95 and as I was now using Linux, an UNSUPPORTED OS, my warranty was null and void! The warranty was only going to be acknowledged if I was using windows. So a heads up to any considering purchase of a U S Robotics product. If you aren't running windows, its doesn't come with a warranty; a bit too much redmond for my taste! dave

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Re: [SLE] windows directory names with spaces?
by scc 06 Dec '01

06 Dec '01

Thanks Fred. We are only just getting to grips with w98. Steve. On Wednesday 05 December 2001 19:12, you wrote: > On Thursday 29 November 2001 11:08 pm, you wrote: > > Hi > > > > How do I specify the program called \Program Files\foobar.exe to wine > > as I can't have spaces in Linux. > > Like this: \"Program Files"\foobare.exe > > Fred

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DNS...
by StarTux 06 Dec '01

06 Dec '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Not fun, had some issues across the board :). Just recieved my SuSE linux 7.3 last Friday and will be upgrading my server, just wondering if it is worth going to Bind 9? Matt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE73CyxWER6riTj1jIRAu7OAKDOizEQB25De4nKlYKSZrYDdft/OACbBTdB fXlIh79vBxxEcq7TNBee/G8= =rMOA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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