January 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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YAST2 Freezes
by Anthony W. Marino 09 Mar '02

09 Mar '02

Just about ANYTHING I do with YAST2 freezes my screen. I can run YAST1, however, I want to run YAST2. (Tecra8000 laptop; 512 meg ram 12gb drive) Any suggestions would be appreciated! Anthony

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ISO images of SuSE 7.3
by Joseph Hobbs 07 Mar '02

07 Mar '02

Do you know if SuSE has ISO images of SuSE 7.3 on any of their FTP servers? I have to install SuSE on a box with no Floppy drive, so I need a bootable CD! All I can find on their sites are single file downloads! I know most other distro's distribute as ISO via FTP, I was wondering if SuSE did as well! Any info? Joseph Hobbs Compaq Web Services / GEAE Team Tier 2/3 Support | Team Lead Backup hobbsj(a)somecrazyfool.com Joseph.Hobbs(a)ae.ge.com

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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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ReiserFS questions
by Tim Harrell 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

I'm planning to give the Reiser FS a run-in (or should that be ruin?) and I have a few questions I'd be grateful to get advice on: 1) Is the reiser support in 7.2 (2.4.4-4GB) safe? I'm not intending to upgrade my kernel anytime soon. 2) How does it get set up in /etc/fstab? Is it just a matter of changing ext2 to reiserfs? 3) What's this I hear about tail and notail modes? I notice that mkreiserfs has a '-v format' option which can be either 1 or 2 but it explains nothing about what these mean. Thanks, -- Tim Harrell <tim.harrell(a)ntlworld.com>

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RE: [SLE] Machine Freeze up
by Jostein Berntsen 12 Feb '02

12 Feb '02

Hi, What graphics card is in the Thinkpad? Have you checked the /var/log/XFree86.0.log for any errors? Look for messages fronted by (EE). Jostein >===== Original Message From Ron Joffe <rjoffe(a)yahoo.com> ===== >Humm, nope I have not set a bios boot up password. Any other ideas? > >Thanks, > >Ron > > > >On Friday 11 January 2002 03:13, you wrote: >> > I just had my Suse 7.3 running on a IBM T20 thinkpad lock up on me. I >> > didn't have that much going on, but the strange part was that as soon as >> > the system froze, bot the scroll lock and caps lock button started >> > blinking. They continued blinking until I did a hard reset. Very strange >> > >> > Nothing in the messages or warn logs. Any ideas of where else to look? >> >> I don't know about that Thinkpad, but guys in my office eventually figured >> out that when an IBM Intel server locks up with the LEDs blinking, it means >> that the BIOS security/screensaver thingy has kicked in. If you type >> (blindly, there's no feedback) the BIOS power-on password, it snaps back >> into life. > >-- >Ron Joffe >rjoffe(a)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/faq and the >archives at http://lists.suse.com

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RE: [SLE] Konqueror Incompatibility
by kbb0927＠cs.com 12 Feb '02

12 Feb '02

Carl, I search Ebay all the time and NEVER had a problem with Konq. Regards, Keith B. "Carl A. Cook" <quantum(a)ultra2k.com> wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >If anyone has any doubt, there are still compatibility problems in Konqueror >web browser. > >Please try EBay's Buy It Now. I had to use Netscape (that trainwreck). > >And check this site... just doesn't work. Maybe because it's .asp? >http://www.replaytvfaq.com > >Konq is the browser I use and I like it. Hope they fix these problems. > >While I'm at it, wouldn't it be nice if Konq filemanager could edit symlinks? >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) >Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > >iD8DBQE8OyOcnQ18+PFcZJsRAjUBAJ95UazTZNHQok/PM7dzCDAt/reaJwCfSAXz >RE3DH9EBXUKaoukd8j5sRoM= >=tFop >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >-- >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 and the >archives at http://lists.suse.com > >

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Alps MD5000 Printer doesn't work in Suse
by Carl A. Cook 12 Feb '02

12 Feb '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Suse, please be advised that no Alps printer is reported to be working with Cups and Suse Ghostscript. I've done without this printer for six months, all the while asking for help in GS listserv, Cups, Suse, etc. There is a problem in the Suse Alps driver, as the same hardware works fine in Win2k. Please free me from Winduhs, and fix this. - ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [SLE] Alps MD5000 Printer - Suse GS Bug Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 07:35:47 -0700 From: Carl <quantum(a)ultra2k.com> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com This appears to be a bug in the Suse version of Ghostscript, or in the Alps driver in gs_lib. And since compiling regular Ghostscript with the Alps driver doesn't work, and the Mandrake Ghostscript doesn't work, there must also be a problem elsewhere is Suse. Suse GS developer, are you listening? You have my allegance, but I can't make this beautiful printer work. ================================== I've been working to install this for 8 full weekends in a row, and I'm about at the end of my rope. The MD5000 is a major advance over the inkjets, and I can move entirely to Linux if I can install it. Running Suse7.2. Tried LPD, but the Alps driver must be compiled into Ghostscript. I actually managed to compile the Japanese guy's driver into GS5.5, and then 7 in turn, and in each case gs -h shows the md5k and md2k. But selecting the device in gs gives: hydra:~ # gs -h GNU Ghostscript 5.50 (2000-2-13) Copyright (C) 1998 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved. Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...] Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =) -dNOPAUSE no pause after page | -q `quiet', fewer messages -g<width>x<height> page size in pixels | -r<res> pixels/inch resolution -sDEVICE=<devname> select device | -dBATCH exit after last file -sOutputFile=<file> select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe, embed %d or %ld for page # Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PDF Available devices: x11 x11alpha x11cmyk x11gray2 x11gray4 x11mono md5k md2k deskjet djet500 laserjet ljetplus ljet2p ljet3 ljet4 cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj550 pj pjxl pjxl300 u,niprint bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800 faxg3 fax g32d faxg4 pcxmono pcxgray pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b pcxcmyk pbm pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw pkm pkmraw tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 tifflzw tiffpack tiff12nc tiff24nc psmono psgray psrgb bit bitrgb bitcmyk pngmono pnggray png16 png256 png16m jpeg jpeggray pdfwrite bbox pswrite epswrite pxlmono pxlcolor nullpage Search path: . : /usr/share/ghostscript/5.50 : /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts For more information, see /usr/share/ghostscript/5.50/doc/Use.htm. Report bugs to ghost(a)aladdin.com , using the form in Bug-form.htm. hydra:~ # gs GNU Ghostscript 5.50 (2000-2-13) Copyright (C) 1998 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details. GS>(bj200) selectdevice GS>(md5k) selectdevice Error: /rangecheck in --.setdevice-- Operand stack: --nostringval-- Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- - --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push - --nostringval-- --nostringval-- %loop_continue 2 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push .runexec2 - --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- - --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:902/941(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- - --dict:50/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 20 GS<1>(md2k) selectdevice Error: /rangecheck in --.setdevice-- Operand stack: --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- - --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push - --nostringval-- --nostringval-- %loop_continue 3 3 %oparray_pop --nostringv al-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push .runexec2 - --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- - --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:902/941(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- - --dict:50/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 20 GS<2>(ljet3) selectdevice GS<2> It seems to be missing something, but what? There's NOTHING in the newsgroups. The only other device in contribs.mak that has $(gsparam_h) and shows the *same*error* as md5k & md2k is cdeskjet. Many other printers fail with 'failed get', but the common ones work fine.. Switched to Cups using Yast2. (usually a good idea to use Yast in Suse - why I haven't tried Kups) It installs its own Ghostscript, and you can add drivers (to Cups?), including the Alps. Cups recognises the printer hardware and I go through the install wizard. But on Print Test Page, "lpr: unable to print file: the requested resource is currently unavailable on this server". (cups daemon *is* running) I assign an Epson driver to it, and the Alps starts to print, although messed up. I add the Alps using the Cupsd XML interface and it seems to add fine. But I print a test page and it zooms into the bitbucket. Not in Jobs, no sign of it, no log. Cups seems to come with the driver for the Alps as it shows with the other added drivers.. I think there are two drivers for the front end. So is the backend driver missing? Is the .ppd messed up? I understand Cups has a small version of Ghostscript. Do I need to compile the Alps driver into that as well? Looks like it. If so I must get that working first, but how? I've read Admin/User's/Install guides twice, all the readme's, swept linuxprinting.org and Google, and no luck. I'm told the Alps works in Mandrake, and Mandrake tells me their GS binaries work in Suse without recompile. Had to add several rpms to satisfy dependencies, but it runs fine, but I'm getting exactly the same error as before with my Alps: /usr/utilities/hardware/printers/GS # gs -h GNU Ghostscript 6.51 (2001-03-28) Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...] Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =) -dNOPAUSE no pause after page | -q `quiet', fewer messages -gx page size in pixels | -r pixels/inch resolution -sDEVICE= select device | -dBATCH exit after last file -sOutputFile select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe, embed %d or %ld for page # Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PDF Available devices: bmpmono bmpgray bmpsep1 bmpsep8 bmp16 bmp256 bmp16m bmp32b imagen iwhi iwlo iwlq lbp8 lips3 m8510 necp6 oki182 ln03 dl2100 okiibm oki4w ibmpro omni hpijs DJ630 DJ6xx DJ6xxP DJ8xx DJ9xx DJ9xxVIP AP21xx ap3250 appledmp epson epsonc eps9mid eps9high la50 la70 la75 la75plus escp hl7x0 hl1240 hl1250 gdi deskjet djet500 laserjet ljetplus ljet2p ljet3 ljet3d ljet4 ljet4d lj5mono lj5gray paintjet pjetxl cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj550 pj pjxl pjxl300 pcl3 hpdjplus hpdjportable hpdj310 hpdj320 hpdj340 hpdj400 hpdj500 hpdj500c hpdj510 hpdj520 hpdj540 hpdj550c hpdj560c hpdj600 hpdj660c hpdj670c hpdj680c hpdj690c hpdj850c hpdj855c hpdj870c hpdj890c hpdj1120c uniprint cp50 declj250 dnj650c lj4dith lj250 lq850 lp8000 lp2563 oce9050 bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800 cdj500 cdj670 cdj850 cdj890 cdj1600 cdj880 cdj970 jetp3852 st800 xes stcolor stp alc8500 alc2000 epl5800 epl2050 epl2050p md2k md5k lex5700 lex7000 lxm5700m lx5000 lxm3200 ljet4pjl lj4dithp dj505j picty180 pr201 pr150 pr1000 pr1000_4 jj100 bj10v bj10vh mag16 mag256 mj700v2c mj500c mj6000c mj8000c fmpr fmlbp ml600 lbp310 lbp320 lips2p bjc880j lips4 lips4v bbox escpage lp2000 npdl md50Mono md50Eco md1xMono faxg3 faxg32d faxg4 cfax r4081 sj48 t4693d2 t4693d4 t4693d8 tek4696 dfaxlow dfaxhigh sxlcrt pcxmono pcxgray pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b pcxcmyk pbm pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw pkm pkmraw pksm pksmraw tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 tifflzw tiffpack tiff12nc tiff24nc psmono psgray psrgb bit bitrgb bitcmyk pngmono pnggray png16 png256 png16m jpeg jpeggray pdfwrite pswrite epswrite pxlmono pxlcolor chp2200 cljet5 cljet5c nullpage Search path: . : /usr/share/ghostscript/6.51/lib : /usr/share/ghostscript/6.51/vflib : /usr/share/ghostscript/6.51 : /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript : /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 : /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts For more information, see /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-6.51/Use.htm. Report bugs to bug-gs(a)ghostscript.com, using the form in Bug-form.htm. /usr/utilities/hardware/printers/GS # /usr/utilities/hardware/printers/GS # gs GNU Ghostscript 6.51 (2001-03-28) Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details. Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021003l.pfb... 2319860 953829 1622424 328124 0 done. Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019003l.pfb... 2581108 1204268 1642520 335588 0 done. GS>(md5k) selectdevice Error: /rangecheck in --.setdevice-- Operand stack: --nostringval-- Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- - --nostringval-- - --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- - --nostringval-- %loop_continue 2 3 %oparray_pop - --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- - --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- - --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1025/1476(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- - --dict:83/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 20 GS<1> Since Mandrake's GS is known working in Mandrake, and since the Alps driver compiled into both GS 5.5 & 7.0 fails in exactly the same way as Mandrake, *something*must*be*missing* from Suse. Recall, before I was patching the GS source (both 5.5 & 7.0) with a driver written in 1998 by a Japanese guy. Here there's *no*change* in behaviour. Can you advise? The Cups listserv is not able to help further. - -- 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 and the archives at http://lists.suse.com - ------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8Nno/nQ18+PFcZJsRAl8+AJ9lovSQ2Laq5m/YenDmnpCTHmK7pACfVubY oExL2K8CME3BOzYfhCkdpHc= =uvj9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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