August 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Is this possible: select run level when booting?
by 张韡武 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Hello. For some special reasons I would like to configure a Linux box to allow user to select run level (3 or 5) BEFORE they boot the computer. That is, user is asked if they would like to go to run-level 3 or 5 in GRUB or LILO. How do I do this, if this is possible at all? -- 锐业软服（国内业务） http://www.realss.cn Real SoftService http://www.realss.com 销售咨询(Sales Department): 0086 592 20 99987 (Chinese, German, English) 国际业务(International Sales): 0086 10 8460 6011 (German and English) 联系：厦门大学科技园，嘉庚二号楼6楼邮政：厦门大学2312号信箱（邮编361005）

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linux dd question
by Istvan Gabor 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Hello: I've got a hard disk with a vfat partitition which I'd like to backup using dd. I tried: dd if=/dev/hdc1 of=/mnt/bakup-dd where /dev/hdc1 is the vfat partition and on /mnt is a mounted ext3 partiton. It gave this result: dd: reading `/dev/hdc1': Input/output error 510656+0 records in 510656+0 records out 261455872 bytes (261 MB) copied, 101.931 seconds, 2.6 MB/s What would be the correct dd command to back up the whole vfat partition as a file in an ext3 partition? Thanks, IG _________________________________________________________________ Új érettségi utáni szakképzések térítésmentesen, német nyelvű kiegészítő oklevéllel, ösztöndíjjal! http://ad.adverticum.net/b/cl,1,6022,106048,171567/click.prm

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Re: [SLE] Backup of RAID1 partition
by Zoran Ljubisic 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Zoran Ljubisic wrote: > On Tuesday 22 August 2006 22:54, Zoran Ljubisic wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> I have two discs in RAID1 with three partitions on it: >> >> >> >> hda1(c) - swap >> >> hda2(c) - / >> >> hda3(c) - /job >> > >> I need backup for bare metal recovery of / partition. > > No tape software backup will be suitable for bare metal > backup/restore. There is no OS in a bare metal situation, so you have > no way > to restore. > > * My idea is to boot from rescue cd, and than use dd to create image > of hda2, hdc2 and/or md1. I do not know should I have to initialize > raid md1 device before that, but dd should be sufficient for that > task. > In case of problem I will use reverse dd to restore problematic > partition. Tape is just a medium. > > If I do not have raid, I will use > > dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/st0 bs... > > for restore > > dd if=/dev/st0 of=/dev/hda bs... > > I am trying to use same approach for raid1 (set of) disc. > Can somebody help me about how to be sure I am backing up everything > I need? > > > Further, taking backups that are capable of being restored to a new > raw disk usually entails taking the disk off line long enough to > do it. You have to essentially do a partition dump, and you usually > can't do that on a running partition. > > * Nobody is talking about running partition. > > Personally I never plan on doing bare metal retorations. I back up > data and other critical configurations (such as email setups, etc) > and plan > on restoring the data to a freshly installed OS on the new box if that > becomes > necessary. > > * Don't underestimate power of bare metal recovery. Having root > partition on off-line media is more than convenient. > > Zoran

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Management: each user have a short cut to a certain folder on their desktop
by 张韡武 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Hello. In my case I need to configure 20 SuSE desktop so that each user on each host have 3 shortcut icon on their desktop: 1) shortcut to Firefox, named "surf the Internet"; 2) shortcut to Writer, named "word processing"; 3) shortcut to Calc, named "spreadsheet"; 4) shortcut to a shared NFS mount point, /mnt/fileserver which is mounted when every hosts when boot; I don't know where desktop shortcuts are usually being stored, they don't appear in /home/user/Desktop folder when checking with ls(1). Even if I can creat shortcuts manually for all users (each host have around 10 users for 10 classes of students), I still have trouble next year when I need to do this another 10x20 times because old users are removed and new users are created. I wish to creat it in /etc/skel but I cannot do it as long as they were not actually files. The 'everythig are files' concept of UNIX seems no longer welcomed these days. Any suggestions? Is it possible, e.g. add my add-shortcut-script to the very script created Desktop folder when new user login the first time? Thank you. -- 锐业软服（国内业务） http://www.realss.cn Real SoftService http://www.realss.com 销售咨询(Sales Department): 0086 592 20 99987 (Chinese, German, English) 国际业务(International Sales): 0086 10 8460 6011 (German and English) 联系：厦门大学科技园，嘉庚二号楼6楼邮政：厦门大学2312号信箱（邮编361005）

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Backup of RAID1 partition
by Zoran Ljubisic 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Hi all, I have two discs in RAID1 with three partitions on it: hda1(c) - swap hda2(c) - / hda3(c) - /job I will do some experiment with OS, so I should backup / partition (10GB). I have tape device that I big enough for backup of / partition purpose, but what will be the best way to do so? I need backup for bare metal recovery of / partition. dd, star...? Can somebody help me with backup/restore method here? Zoran

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[opensuse] Announcing Yast-GTK
by Ricardo Cruz 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Hey there, So with the Summer of Code over, it's time to announce the GTK+ interface for Yast (other SoCees, I would love to hear from you btw :)). Still some work to be done for it to be shipped with Suse, but it should be perfectly usable and your welcome to try it. For more information and some screenshots: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST2-GTK As I will be later today on vacations for a week I may not be able to reply to you promptly. Just so we don't think I'm ignoring you or something. :) I would like to take the opportunity to publicaly thank Michael Meeks who was no doubt the best mentor Google could assign. :) Many thanks as well for the guys from the Yast team for their assistance. Cheers, Ricardo -- This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] apt weirdness
by Jan Engelhardt 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Hi, I installed apt/apt-libs-0.5.15lorg3.2-12.2 for 9.3 from home:/rbos, 08:09 athlon:~ # apt-get update Get:1 ftp://ftp-1.gwdg.de SuSE/9.3-i386 release [11.2kB] Get:2 ftp://ftp-1.gwdg.de /pub/suse/update/9.3 repomd.xml [951B] Get:3 ftp://ftp-1.gwdg.de /pub/linux/misc/suser-jengelh/SUSE-9.3 repomd.xml [951B] Get:4 ftp://ftp-1.gwdg.de /pub/linux/misc/suser-jengelh/UNSPEC repomd.xml [951B]Fetched 14.1kB in 0s (193kB/s)@PW@H Hit ftp://ftp-1.gwdg.de SuSE/9.3-i386/base pkglist Hit ftp://ftp-1.gwdg.de SuSE/9.3-i386/base release Hit ftp://ftp-1.gwdg.de /pub/suse/update/9.3/ primary.xml Hit ftp://ftp-1.gwdg.de /pub/suse/update/9.3/ filelists.xml Hit ftp://ftp-1.gwdg.de /pub/linux/misc/suser-jengelh/SUSE-9.3/ primary.xml Hit ftp://ftp-1.gwdg.de /pub/linux/misc/suser-jengelh/SUSE-9.3/ filelists.xml Hit ftp://ftp-1.gwdg.de /pub/linux/misc/suser-jengelh/UNSPEC/ primary.xml Hit ftp://ftp-1.gwdg.de /pub/linux/misc/suser-jengelh/UNSPEC/ filelists.xml Reading Package Lists... Done~@PW@H Building Dependency Tree... Done I have no such thing as @PW@H in sources.list, so did I just find a stack trashing? Jan Engelhardt -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: home directory access problems, permissions???
by Patrick Shanahan 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

On 8/22/06, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh(a)linux01.gwdg.de> wrote: > > And pat can't login, huh? How about `ls -dl /home /`, then? There got to be > some path you can't walk as normal user. > 14:15 wahoo:~ # ls -dl /home / drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Aug 22 10:40 / drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 22 11:03 /home tks, -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SRPMS
by Panos Prokopiou 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

Hi, Does anyone knows where I can find the SRPMS for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10? Thanks in advance, pprok.

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[opensuse] Yast2 package descriptors missing
by jim tate 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

Suse 10.1 on a Dell laptop. Using Smart package manager, Smart keeps saying that Yast2 package descriptors are not installed. How do I get them? Jim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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