August 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

WIndows Emulator
by Juan Francisco Torres Chacon 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

The question is simple... Any good Windows emulator for Linux? (free) -- ------------------------------------- Juan Francisco Torres Ch. Redes, Desarrollo y Tecnología NETCO LTDA

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same HD & different computer
by Eduardo Nogueira 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

Hello Suse users After 1 week rebuilding my stuff in a new computer (Toshiba Satellite 1905 S-301, pentium IV 2G Hz, 40G HD, 256 M memory) I will have to change to another model because of heating and random shutdowns (vendor is taking it back and will receive a new one). The new computer will be a Satellite 5105 501 with the same specs except for the CPU that will be a mobile pentium IV 1.7G Hz) . To save the lot of time I used in installation (partition of disk -> 30 G for Suse Linux 7.3 and 10 for Windows Xp, installing Suse 7.3, installing Win4lin and Windows 98, applications in Linux and Windows, personal stuff etc) can I simply switch the HD's ? Thanks in advance for any help Eduardo ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eduardo A Nogueira, MD, PhD Professor of Cardiology University of Campinas Medical School Campinas, Sao Paulo Brazil

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Webcam
by Phil Shrimpton 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Hi, I have a Creative Labs USB webcam, and I want to 'broadcast' it live on the internet. I have it up and running on Windows, but my webserver is running SuSE. Does anyone know how I would go about this, either instaling it on my SuSE box and 'streaming' direct from there, or some Windows software that I can 'forward' from my SuSE box? I have tried searching Google, but entering 'live webcam setup' returns a load of 'naked college student live' URLs <g> Phil -- Linux 2.4.4-4GB 6:34pm up 13 min, 1 user, load average: 0.66, 0.40, 0.20

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Re: [SLE] Mozilla 1.1
by Frederik Vos 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

On Thursday 29 August 2002 19:02, Preston Crawford wrote: > So how do you get it for SuSE? Apt-get? I can't get apt-get to work and > I'm beginning to wonder whether I should just switch to FreeBSD. Part of > the reason I paid for a distribution was to get upgrades, etc. Red Hat > offers them. Why doesn't SuSE offer these updates and make this easier? > > Preston 1) maybe it's a good idea to tell us why apt-get doesn't work (errors etc etc 2) manually is also simple: rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/projects/mozilla/1.1/8.0/mozi… a-1.1-0.i386.rpm Just for your information: RH is not offering any rpm's for Mozilla so far as i know. -- greetz, Frederik Vos www.vosberg.be

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fat32 rescue
by H du Plooy 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Hi all, Recently a friend of mine bought a 40gig drive, that his bios couldn't detect. He was quite happy to run it in 33g mode for now, and partitioned his disk as follows with partitionmagic 7 for dos: 2gb - win98 - fat32 primary partition 4gb - win2k - ntfs primary extended partition: 8gb - linux - ext2 logical drive 18gb - data - fat32 logical drive 200mb - linux swap logical drive 6gb of empty space remains until he gets a new mobo (his current one's BIOS is the newest for it, and there's no space for a new IDE controller) This is roughly what my setup looks like, and it works fine. He installed win98 and win2k, then ran SuSE 8.0 setup. SuSE saw the 6gb open space and tried to make a swap partition in it. The the YAST2 hang. Upon rebooting, the 18gb data partition was gone. I ran partitionmagic to see if I could undelete it. pm told me the partition table was "bad." With hard drive mechanic I managed to restore the partition table, but the data partition was still gone. I read in one of the howtos that there is a way to ressurect a missing partition. Make a new one over it and then run a command (dumpe2fs or something like that) to rebuild the filesystem. This is only for ext2 though, so my question: Is there such a util for fat32? I tried all the disk utils included with SuSE 8.0 Pro, and only gpart saw the missing partition, but it wouldn't do anything more. Thanks Hans == Find businesses and have your business found: http://www.brabys.com

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Error installing packages
by black6host 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Greetings all, I'm trying to install some packages off the cd, which has worked flawlessly before and now I'm getting the following messages. Packages.rpm does exist, in the indicated directory and I'm not sure why I'm having a problem. Running stock SuSe 8.0. Any ideas? Note: I'm not trying to install bash, but rather the kernel sources. Bash is of course already installed.... Thanks for any help that might be offered, Fleet Senseman <----begin error log ----> rpm --root / --dbpath /var/lib/rpm/ -q -p --qf %{NAME} /var/adm/mount/suse/a1/bash-2.05-302.i386.rpm bash Return :0 rpm --root / --dbpath /var/lib/rpm/ -q -p --qf %{NAME} /var/adm/mount/suse/a1/bash-2.05-302.i386.rpm bash Return :0 rpm --root / --dbpath /var/lib/rpm/ -q --qf %{NAME} bash Return :1 rpm --root / --dbpath /var/lib/rpm/ -U --replacepkgs --oldpackage --replacefiles --nodeps --ignoresize --percent /var/adm/mount/suse/a1/bash-2.05-302.i386.rpm Installing bash-2.05-302.i386 failed to open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm: Success error: cannot open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm Return :1 ... ERROR

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VNC
by Art Fore 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

I setup VNC server on one machine and VNC view on the other through NFS TCP/IP network. Can get the VNC viewer to connect, but all I get is a black screen. The appears to be because VNC server is working with display 1 when I need it to work with display 0. That is, I want to see the same display on my computer that is on the other. Does anyone know how to set this up? Art

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Starting services at boot time
by Patrick Mariescurrena 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

In the old days (SuSE 7.1) if you wanted linux to start a service at boot time you just included i.e: START_NAMED="Yes" in rc.config. I'd like to start named this way under SuSE 8.0, but so far no luck. Does anybody know where should I include this in order to have named start at boot time (or any other service)? Thanks in advance. Patrick.

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Hotplugging services - sometimes hangs boot (8.0)
by Hulslander, Ryan 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

This is bizarre. Sometimes the machine will boot just fine and gets through "Starting hot-plugging services". Sometimes it boots up and gets to: [net pci usb and just hangs and I have to cold-power cycle the box. About one out of every 5-8 boots it'll make it all the way through. Now, if I disable USB on the motherboard, (Soyo Dragon Ultra KY333), it'll pass it with "failed", but since I don't use any USB devices I'm not as concerned. However, it worries me that this section will only work on occasion. Any ideas? I can't see any boot log after the box hangs and I have to reset it, so I can't tell what its issue is. I've tried enabling/disabling Plug-n-Play, etc., to no avail. If anyone has any clues on this I would be forever in your debt. Thanks! Ryan Hulslander

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Access mail
by Martin Richard 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Hi! I have Suse 8.0 Pro. I use KMail as my email program. The mail and folders are in my home directory in the Mail directory. Is it possible to access all my emails in the folders from anywhere? Can I install a web mail program that can make it possible? If yes, which one? Thanks

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