April 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

2nd Posting - Kernel 2.4.18 / SuSE 7.3
by Anthony W. Marino 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

Is there going to be a SuSE specific kernel release of 2.4.18-x for SuSE 7.3 Can someone from SuSE, please, respond. Thank You, Anthony

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Re: Availability of 8.0 to Canadians
by gjmwalsh＠netscape.net 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

I have noted that the update from Pro 7.3 to Pro 8.0 is being shipped and received almost literally around the world. The SuSE site shows 8.0 is being currently shipped. The original release date was April 22nd. I ordered this originally on 13th March from what was then the SuSE store. They confirmed it, then they 'lost' it. By accident, I discovered this on April 17th when I could not access the order. That request was sent by SuSE to some organization called 'digitalriver.com'. They have a record of the order, but tell me it is back-ordered. Are Canucks now on the paranoid terrorist list or do we require a separate blessing from some holy priest somewhere? Don't know about you guys, but I am not in a position where I can simply rebuild systems at whim. I had to plan to do it. -- George Walsh, Managing Director, CruiseRoutes Division, DSC Directional Services Corp Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

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Re: [SLE] big hard drive, drive overlays and Linux
by Clayton Cornell 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

On Tuesday 30 April 2002 19:44, Chris Herrnberger wrote: > Dont quote me on this, but if I remember correctly the bios limitations for > HD's are not applicable to linux in general. I seem to remember being able > to install larger drives than 500megs on boxes with that limitation under > dos. As I do more reading on this - with the very limited references to this subject - this is what I have come up with too. I'll give it a try and see what happens. > mini distro that will work with the low RAM that you have. I have already got a mini distro up and running successfully - BasicLinux. It worked great. Now I want to push the limits even further... and get X and a simple WM up and running. Ultimately I want to use this system as a simple web browser and a remote access machine for my main SuSE Linux machine... don't know how feasable it is, but it's a good learning experience. (after that, it's on to my old AtariST - I read somewhere that people have managed to get Linux working on a dumb terminal mode on these things) > Also if memory servse correctly the limitations of SuSE on memory are not > kernel or application dependant, rather YAST dependant. If you can live > without YAST then it 'could' live on the machine as well. Make it headless, > and via NFS or via serial link update and control from another machine. Well it's definitely not the kernel. The Slackware8.0 I am working with uses 2.4.x quite nicely on the 386. Never thought of the headless machine. Living without YAST is not too much trouble, but I actually want to install it using some standard install scripts provided with mainstream distros. I could do a "roll your own" but that's the hard way. I have been given a challenge from a Windows Borg friend who wants to chant "I told you so" that Linux will not run on old hardware, and that I will have to revert back to DOS and Win3.11. I have already proved him wrong with BasicLinux... now I just have to show him how easy it is to install and config a WM ;-) C.

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RE: Re: [SLE] SuSE FTP and .iso images?
by DSprankle2＠netscape.net 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

Even sex isn't free, you pay for it one way or the other whether you realize it or not. Keep that in mind next time your getting some!! I purchased 7.3 not two months ago, and have already purchased 8.0, I think that I will probably upgrade every other one, I know that it is money well spent, and it puts SuSE one step closer to being on top as a home users desktop standard, which is something that I would really like to see, I'm sick of walking thru B-Buy or C-USA and hearing people say, "AND YES, THIS ONE COMES WITH THE LATEST AND GREATEST WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION" it makes me want to freakin' puke right there. Spend the $$$, you'll be glad that you did. Ben Rosenberg <ben(a)whack.org> wrote: >* jeric (jeric(a)mmcable.com) [020430 10:35]: >::Hi, >:: Is it possible to make an installation CD set by burning the files >::from the FTP site to CD? I have tried to just burn the needed files to CD, >::but that did not work. I know I can make an FTP install floppy set which >::allows for network installation, but I wanted to make a hard copy and install >::form that. If someone could point me to some documentation on doing this I >::would appreciate it. All documentation I have seen is for network installs, >::and why .iso images are not uploaded to the ftp (except for sparc's), but >::nothing on the necessary files to create installation CD's. $80 a year for >::the newest version is getting too expensive. > >Yes, I'll format your email for you. Please wrap the text so that it's >readable...72-78 characters. > > >You can buy the upgrade version every single time you buy a new version >if you like. I mean it's $49.95 for the upgrade (pro w/ out all the >books and support) and this would be about $150.00 a year which is much >cheaper then any other platform. You don't have to do every version >either. You could do 8.0 then 8.2 then 8.4 then 9.0 and be perfectly >happy. I'm still running 7.2 at work and I went from 7.1 to 7.3 at home. >You do not have to upgrade every single time. But I will also say that I >don't think that SuSE should have to put .iso's up or much worry about >"giving everyone a free beer". They are a business ..in business to make >money. They do more then enough to help the community and if people >don't like this sad fact of life..then it's all open source and can be >put together when and how it suites the person. > >*shrug* Same ole stuff..everytime there is a new release. I think SuSE >could do a release once a year and that would be to much for people. > > >-=Ben > >--=====-----=====-- >mailto:ben@whack.org >--=====-- >If it's true that our species is alone in the >universe, then I'd have to say that the universe >aimed rather low and settled for very little. -GC >--=====-----=====-- > >-- >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 archives at http://lists.suse.com > > __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

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printing in 8.0
by jack malone 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

In past versions before 8.0 lprold was avaible for printing, that was what I have always used an it worked very good for me. Now in 8 its not there. I chose lprnew or whatever its called an it using ghostscript drivers for printing. That works fine for both of my HP4000 laser printers on the network. But i have this ricoh copy machine that doubles as a printer also, has a nic in the machine. In the past with lprold I have this script that ricoh wrote to setup printing on unix/linux machines. its very nifty script, asks for host name, queue name an the type of printer you have an it setups the entries in printcap file an also setups the spool directory in var/spool/lpd for you an it just works. But in 8.0 it want work an i can not get any other type of printer to setup to work for the machine. Anyone have an suggestions. thanks jack malone East Texas lighthouse for the blind dba Horizon Industries

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RE: [SLE] Yast2 BUG
by kevin.wilson＠comtrol.com 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

This is the crux of the problem...since the change from rc.config to the "new boot concept" where did the startup switches go to? [Remember in rc.config] START_HTTPD="yes" START_NAMED="yes" (START_BIND..DONT REMEMBER OFF-HAND) If using SuSEConfig = yes then when a new service daemon like httpd or bind is installed then the Yast tool should also set the service to be automatically started (even after a reboot). Unfortunately, they do not have any docs that state...you used to do this in v6.3 but now you must do this or it wont work. -----Original Message----- From: Keith Winston [mailto:kwinston@twmi.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:28 AM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Yast2 BUG On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 10:37:20AM -0500, kevin.wilson(a)comtrol.com wrote: > When installing Bind and Apache using Yast2 the appropriate service entries > were not put in the inittab file that will allow the services to be > automatically started after the machine is rebooted. No services are started in inittab, that's where gettys are spawned and the runlevel is determined. To control which services start at which runlevels, go back to YaST2 / System / Runlevel Editor and click on the Runlevel Properties button. Most people boot into either runlevel 3 or 5. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net -- 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 archives at http://lists.suse.com

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and finally
by Togan Muftuoglu 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

8.0 arrived to Turkey oh personally delivered by the SuSE distributor of Turkey to my home :-P Now where is my new harddisk -:) -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx

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Suse 8.0 on ftp
by Adam Oliver 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

When will it be available? Adam

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Finally arrived in Ireland
by Keith Gibbons 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

Hi all, Finally got SuSE v 8.0 today in Ireland. Now to find the time to install it. Regards, Keith Gibbons, StarDate Computer Service, SCS House, Garrymore, Geashill, Co.Offaly, Ireland. Phone: + (353)-(0)502-28810 Ph/Fax: + (353)-(0)502-28593 Mobile: + (353)-(0)87-2434048

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php e-mail (ot-sorry)
by steve 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

Hi. I have recovered e.g. $message from an html form. What is the php code to e-mail it to myself? Thanks, Steve.

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