December 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

USB CD Installation
by Houghton, Chris 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

Anyone know where I can find info on installing SuSE 8.0 from a USB CD-ROM. I get a popup "ERROR READING BOOT CD. PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT" with "Disk Error 20, Drive EF" up in the corner as soon as I select an option from the LILO boot menu. I'm guessing I need to build a boot disk with usb support instead of using legacy usb since that makes the CD emulate a floppy insted of ATAPI. But it sure would be nice if legacy usb worked. Chris Houghton Intel Corp

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CD-RW problems on 7.1
by Steve Miller 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

Hi, Have just installed a BusLink 52x-24x-52x CD-RW drive onto a system that alho has a Zip drive. Have followed the hash of advice from (1) the CD-Writing How-to, (2) the SuSE 7.1 Configuration Manual, and (3) http://seismo.ethz.ch/linux/xcdroast.html. After (1) and (2), I could at least mount and read the CDROM as /dev/hdb (via append="hdb=ide-scsi" in /etc/lilo.conf). After (3), however, even this fails to occur. Furthermore, xcdroast (run as root) fails to detect anything to do with this drive, which replaces an older 2x-CDROM. In the interest of giving someone more knowledgeable a starting point, I'll start with (a) the boot message pertaining to the SCSI devices, (b) the relevant entries of my /etc/fstab (which no longer make sense to me), and (c) the output of the test recommended in the CD-Writing How-to. (a) boot message scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 13.A Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: LITE-ON Model: LTR-52246S Rev: 6S02 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28 sda : extended sense code = 2 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. VFS: Disk change detected on device sd(8,0) sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28 sda : extended sense code = 2 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. VFS: Disk change detected on device sd(8,0) sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28 sda : extended sense code = 2 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table VFS: Disk change detected on device sd(8,4) SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: sda4 (b) /etc/fstab lines (new) /dev/cdrecorder /cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user 0 0 /dev/cdrom /cdrom auto ro,noauto,user 0 0 (old line that worked was:) /dev/hdb /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user 0 0 (for what it's worth, ls -l /dev/cdr* gives) lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Dec 11 02:07 /dev/cdrom -> hdb (c) test results (I just compiled a kernel that supposedly has the required modules, despite the protetstations of this test to the contrary....) Ensure the module sg is loaded automatically next time. insmod: sg: no module by that name found Ensure the module sr_mod is loaded automatically next time. insmod: sr_mod: no module by that name found The following is only needed for IDE/ATAPI CD writers. Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' '13.A' Removable Disk 0,1,0 1) 'LITE-ON ' 'LTR-52246S ' '6S02' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * Thanks in advance for your time, patience, and advice. Steve Miller __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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Mozilla GTK2 libgtksperwin.so
by James Ogley 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

Well, I did some research about Ben's issue about libgtksuperwin.so, and that's a library that's only generated by the GTK1 version of Mozilla. So, although kdebindings3-mozilla still will not work with it, I could do a new package on Monday with libgtksuperwin.so as a Provides: line in the spec so that as far as the RPM db is concerned the dependencies are met. Thoughts? -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james(a)rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter(a)myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.1). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

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redhat & ms ?
by oeren＠ykb.com 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

When searching the archives of this list, i saw some msgs with subjects "ms buys redhat". Was it a joke or what? OGUZ EREN YAPI VE KREDI BANKASI A.S. / TEKNOLOJI YONETIMI Tel : 262 647 21 29 Fax : 262 647 17 12 www.ykteknoloji.com ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Bu mesajda, yalnizca muhatabini ilgilendiren, kisiye veya kuruma ozel bilgiler yer aliyor olabilir. Mesajin muhatabi degilseniz, icerigini ve varsa ekindeki dosyalari kimseye aktarmayiniz ya da kopyalamayiniz. Boyle bir durumda lutfen gondereni uyarip, mesaji imha ediniz. Gostermis oldugunuz hassasiyetten oturu tesekkür ederiz. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. Thank you for your co-operation.

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Read NTFS
by Hangga 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

Hello linuxer, My system right now is dual booting, winXP and suse8.0. The winXP use NTFS partition. How can I set suse8.0, so it can read the ntfs partition from windows. I've tried to mounting the ntfs partition, but failed. I've heard that another new released distro - like mandrake 9.0 - could read ntfs partition. Please, give me step by step information, because I'm still newbie on linux Thanks a lot. Hangga

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Switching between LAN and modem access - how?
by Kevin Donnelly 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

This may be obvious, but after fiddling around for a while I can't seem to find out how to do it - on Linux, I've always used one or the other. I have a PC with a network card, and a modem. The card is set up to use the gateway for net access, and the modem can dial out directly. I can access the net with the modem fine, but I also want to be able to use the LAN when I feel like it, just to be awkward. However, I can't seem to get the LAN connection working. On Windows, in IE -> Tools -> Connections, you can just tick Never dial out, and it then uses the network until you want to use the modem again. Is there anything similar in SuSE? Thanks Kevin

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How do I know what libraries to install?
by JeepNut 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

I got a bit further with some good advice about WHAT to install to get the compiler working BUT... It complains now about some libraries missing. It looks like I have some pertinent (or possibly pertinent, what do I know) libraries installed already like Common C++, Common C++-devel, glibc-devel, but I don't know exactly what I need. It reports that it cannot find the required X11 libraries, but checking the YaST library sets, the only C++ library listed in Development/Libraries/X11 (fltk) is installed already. Any help with this next wrinkle? TIA JeepNut In case it's helpful, here's what I get now... ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for c++... c++ checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) works... yes checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C++... yes checking whether c++ accepts -g... yes checking for nroff... /usr/bin/nroff checking for htmldoc... no checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no checking size of short... 2 checking size of int... 4 checking size of long... 4 checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes checking for opendir in -ldir... no checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for sys/select.h... yes checking for sys/stdtypes.h... no checking for scandir... yes checking for vsnprintf... yes checking for snprintf... yes checking for vsprintf... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for strcasecmp... yes checking for X... no configure: error: Configure could not find required X11 libraries __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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Re: [SLE] Broadband?
by James.Rocks＠equant.com 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

Hi Phil, Yes that clears some of it up ... > You can't access the router by its external IP address from 'inside', so to > configure it, you need to connect by its internal address. ... so where is the external address configured? In the device or on the line itself ... I'm beginning to think it must be the latter and that the device is more like one end of a bridge than a router. Anyway ... thanks for taking the time to explain :-) James C. Rocks Equant Archway House Canary Wharf London E14 9SZ

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RE: [SLE] Mozilla GTK2 at last!
by Richard Bos 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

>===== Original Message From Ben Rosenberg <ben(a)whack.org> ===== >* James Ogley (james(a)usr-local-bin.org) [021213 00:21]: >->> That would be great! >->> If you're making it for 8.1, be shure to make cabextract a dependency. >-> >->Yup, I know ;) >-> >->For anyone who doesn't know, you can get cabextract from >->http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts And from the apt repository as well. The (SuSE) rpm is provided by the components extra and suser-tcousin: $ zgrep ^cabextra contlist.bz2 cabextract;0.6-1;i386;extra cabextract;0.6-2;i586;suser-tcousin It's now only waiting for someone to provide an rpm with the fetchmsttfont script. The source of the script can be found in the unofficial suse faq... -- Richard -- Dit bericht is verzonden met Webmail van Freeler. Ook snel en betrouwbaar toegang tot internet? Meld je aan op http://www.freeler.nl

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Printer sharing in CUPS
by Robt. Miller 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

I have 2 SuSE machines and I want to share a printer. On the host machine I updated the /etc/hosts.lpd file with the address that I want to allow and on the remote machine I ran Yast to configure a remote printer. For name of printer I made up a name, spool directory was automatic, server name I put the IP of the host machine, and name of printer on server I put lp. When I hit F4 to create it gives me.. The computer 192.168.0.200 could not be reached over the network. Do you want to create the printer anyway? ..these computers communicate fine so I assume I'm filling this out wrong or using the wrong tool. Please enlighten me - thank you! -- (o< //\ Powered by SuSE Linux V_/_ Virusproof. Crashproof. 4:51pm up 10:30, 20 users, load average: 1.14, 1.18, 1.21 processes 38823

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