April 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [SLE] Anyone successful installing SuSE 7.1 on Dell PowerEdge 1550?
by Dunphy Richard-rdunph01 05 Apr '01

05 Apr '01

I managed to install SuSE7.0 on a Poweredge here with no problems. The trick for me was to select the "manual" method (type manual at the boot: prompt)which uses YAST, not YAST2. Once there, you can manually load modules. The one to load for the RAID controller is the AACRAID module. Also, I've noticed that since 7.0 the LILO installation screen of YAST2 always defaults to using a floppy! Your problem below sounds like it never wrote to the MBR of the disk, hence you couldn't boot. Rik > -----Original Message----- > From: KEVIN ZEMBOWER [mailto:KZEMBOWER@jhuccp.org] > Sent: 04 April 2001 20:56 > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: [SLE] Anyone successful installing SuSE 7.1 on Dell PowerEdge > 1550? > > > Has anyone successfully installed SuSE 7.1 on a Dell > PowerEdge 1550? The manufacturer rates it as certified with > Red Hat 7.0. I thought that this might be close enough. When > I tried to install SuSE 7.1, at first it said that there were > no hard disks found. Then, I used some screen to manually > probe for modules, and suddenly, it found the hard disk, a > RAID 5 array. I thought I was home free. > > But, when I rebooted it, it couldn't run anything. Even > before it got to LILO, it told me to "press F1 to reboot, > press F? to do something else..." > > I gave up and installed Red Hat 7.0. At one point in the Dell > OpenManage Server Assistant CD directions, before I got to > the Red Hat install, it had me create a kickstart diskette, > then type "linux ks=floppy noprobe" at the linux boot prompt. > After that, the RH install went automatically to a successful > conclusion. > > How come I could install RH 7.0 and not SuSE 7.1? Any ideas? > I'd still like to convert this box to SuSE 7.1 before I get > too far along setting it up. Can I upgrade from RH 7.0 to SuSE 7.1? > > Thanks for your thoughts. > > -Kevin Zembower > > ----- > E. Kevin Zembower > Unix Administrator > Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs > 111 Market Place, Suite 310 > Baltimore, MD 21202 > 410-659-6139 > > > -- > 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/faq >

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Boot Concept, continued ...
by john.janmaat＠acadiau.ca 05 Apr '01

05 Apr '01

Hello, I don't have a particular problem with the boot concept. However, I do want to know when various things are loaded and by what scripts. I want to configure my system to backup some critical files to a network drive every time it starts up. (it is a laptop, so I want to save the stuff that I did while not connected.) RH had a script which it executed last, after modules were loaded, but before going to run level 5. boot.local is executed before ifconfig activates networking and dhcpcd gets my ip. Suggestions? John.

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FTP and ssh
by Morsal Roudbay 05 Apr '01

05 Apr '01

Hi! How can I encrypt all FTP connections to my server using SSH? Is there any SFTP daemon around? I'd prefer to use my current ftpd and add ssh encryption to it but I dont know how. Thanks in advance, Morsal

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HP7200 firmware
by Guy Van Sanden 05 Apr '01

05 Apr '01

Hello Has anybody got any idea how to update an HP7200 firmware without a fully installed version of Windows? They only have a windows utility (not DOS), which even requires the HP software installed. :-( Thanks for any help. Kind regards Guy

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[SLE] KDE Help - Search
by Cleary, Mike 05 Apr '01

05 Apr '01

I upgraded to 2.1.1 a couple of nights ago with no problems. But I still can't get "Search" to work in KDE help. I HAVE tried doing: Update Index --> Generate Index. It reads a bunch of files, but then stops. It never seems to do the "extracting search terms" or "generating index" steps. It looks through 3000+ files and then stops just as if it is finished. If I then try to search for something, nothing happens. Is there something else that needs to be initialized before this will work? Do I have to do something to set up htdig? TIA, MIke ------------------------------------------------------ Cleary_Mike(a)emc.com x6033 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Overflow on /dev/null, please empty the bit bucket. -- 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/faq

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RE: [SLE] Anyone successful installing SuSE 7.1 on Dell PowerEdge1550?
by KEVIN ZEMBOWER 05 Apr '01

05 Apr '01

Thank you for your suggestion. I'll try it in the next week and report back to the list. -Kevin Zembower ----- E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139 >>> Dunphy Richard-rdunph01 <Rik.Dunphy(a)motorola.com> 04/05/01 03:30AM >>> I managed to install SuSE7.0 on a Poweredge here with no problems. The trick for me was to select the "manual" method (type manual at the boot: prompt)which uses YAST, not YAST2. Once there, you can manually load modules. The one to load for the RAID controller is the AACRAID module. Also, I've noticed that since 7.0 the LILO installation screen of YAST2 always defaults to using a floppy! Your problem below sounds like it never wrote to the MBR of the disk, hence you couldn't boot. Rik > -----Original Message----- > From: KEVIN ZEMBOWER [mailto:KZEMBOWER@jhuccp.org] > Sent: 04 April 2001 20:56 > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: [SLE] Anyone successful installing SuSE 7.1 on Dell PowerEdge > 1550? > > > Has anyone successfully installed SuSE 7.1 on a Dell > PowerEdge 1550? The manufacturer rates it as certified with > Red Hat 7.0. I thought that this might be close enough. When > I tried to install SuSE 7.1, at first it said that there were > no hard disks found. Then, I used some screen to manually > probe for modules, and suddenly, it found the hard disk, a > RAID 5 array. I thought I was home free. > > But, when I rebooted it, it couldn't run anything. Even > before it got to LILO, it told me to "press F1 to reboot, > press F? to do something else..." > > I gave up and installed Red Hat 7.0. At one point in the Dell > OpenManage Server Assistant CD directions, before I got to > the Red Hat install, it had me create a kickstart diskette, > then type "linux ks=floppy noprobe" at the linux boot prompt. > After that, the RH install went automatically to a successful > conclusion. > > How come I could install RH 7.0 and not SuSE 7.1? Any ideas? > I'd still like to convert this box to SuSE 7.1 before I get > too far along setting it up. Can I upgrade from RH 7.0 to SuSE 7.1? > > Thanks for your thoughts. > > -Kevin Zembower > > ----- > E. Kevin Zembower > Unix Administrator > Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs > 111 Market Place, Suite 310 > Baltimore, MD 21202 > 410-659-6139 > > > -- > 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/faq > -- 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/faq

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kernel 2.4.3 and glibc 2.2
by Stefano Papini 05 Apr '01

05 Apr '01

Hi all, I'm trying to refresh my linux box with glibc2.2 and latest kernel breath. I've got a couple of troubles... 1) any pb. with SCSI uw2940 and kernel 2.4.3?? I got one msg warning about SCSI timeouts endless repeating while booting (I boot in text mode). This curiously happened after cooking my 2.4.3 with the same recipe used for 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 (but for reiserFS as a module). 2) I've got a pb. after installing glibc 2.2.: - on locale. My ENV variables are correctly set, my /usr/share/locale/xxx do exist, but perl, when starting, complains about missing locale (and defaults to C, or POSIX)... - trying to launch wine and got a missing "stdscr" from libwine.so.1 Any idea??? TIA, Stefano -- Stefano Papini, Dr. Eng. Senior Consultant GPLV Partners S.p.A. Piazza Cavour, 3 (V piano) 20121 Milano - Italy Tel. +39-02-6556731 Fax +39-02-63618532 mailto:stefano.papini@gplvpartners.com Web: http://www.gplvpartners.com

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[SLE] 486 dx 33 under linux
by Oliver Ob 05 Apr '01

05 Apr '01

Hi mates, after again more and more differences oon the german list, on trustfully come to you and ask you... I got some old 486dx33-isa computer as a present. it has 2400 baud internal, optics at 8000 cdrom, 2x 200 mb at hdd, isa ne2000 included. Now the question: As we write 2001 already, what use has one still got for such an old thing to be used under linux console environment. hope you don't treat this as a joke-question. I shall today give you more information as I did before to rise possibility of adequate answers: 486 runs with 4 mb - is that enough for gateway-firewall-routing purposes? -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤Oliver@home*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤

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OpenSSL
by Guy Van Sanden 05 Apr '01

05 Apr '01

Has anyone been able to set up sslwrap successfully? I've followed the instructions in /usr/share/doc/packages/sslwrap/README.SuSE to the letter.. Set up pop3s and ftps... Neither works... I used kmail (from KDE2) to test pop3s... Kind regards Guy

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test
by Jeffrey Taylor 05 Apr '01

05 Apr '01

This is a test to get a bounce from one-socialist-africa.org to track them down. Please ignore. -- I don't do Windows and I don't come to work before nine. -- Johnny Paycheck

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