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[opensuse] dual boot installation
by Fr David Ousley 08 Nov '16

08 Nov '16

I'm trying to install Leap 42.1 on a new Windows 7 laptop. The Yast installer (from verified DVD) will only give me the option of wiping the hard drive and installing Linux without Windows. I'm wondering if there is any way to keep Windows, and dual boot with Linux. Previous installations have always given me that option. Win 7, UEFI, 500 Gig hard drive. Original partitions: System_drv 200 mb, ntfs Windows7_OS, 428.18 gb ntfs Lenovo_D, 25gb ntfs (unlabelled OEM partition) 12.38 Gb When the initial installation attempt failed to give me the option of keeping Windows, I shrank the Windows 7 partition using the Windows disk partioner, so that the Win 7 partition is 214.64 gb, and 213.54 gb is unallocated. The linux installer will not use the unallocated space. I get the same result trying to install 13.2. Installation proceeds normally, until the partition proposal, where I abort. Machine is Lenovo, dualcore i3, 1.7 ghz, 4 gb memory. Is it possible to install a dual boot on this machine? Thanks for your help! Fr Ousley -- St John the Baptist Catholic Church, Bridgeport (formerly St Michael's & Bl J.H. Newman) Fr David Ousley 502 Ford Street Bridgeport, PA 19405 215-247-1092 www.sjbbridgeport.org dao(a)anglicanphiladelphia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] hdparm on boot and YaST
by Juan R. de Silva 08 Nov '16

08 Nov '16

About a month ago I run a cross a post in forums showing the way to run something like 'hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda' upon boot by simply setting some parameter in YaST. Foolishly enough I managed to loose the post and I do not remember it in details. I googled for over an hour now and I cannot come across it any more. Anybody can make a suggestion here, please? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Firefox temporary files.
by Carlos E. R. 07 Nov '16

07 Nov '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I noticed that Firefox stores content, such as PDF, that was displayed instead of downloaded, in the directory /tmp/mozilla_cer0. I would prefer to send that to an encrypted partition. Where can I configure the path, in Firefox? I don't see a setting. Also, I can't find the button for the advanced settings edit (the large table). It is not in the advanced tab of preferences. At least, I can't find it. I can browse to "about:config", though. Still, I don't see the temporary path in there, anyway. The alternative is creating a symlink, of course. Or moving the entire /tmp to encrypted path... which I hesitate to do. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlgfHUAACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WkjQCfcaskDH1YREngtZMN5iw8zDPF x04An0eG6zk8HcctLRsb6VCriofmXHrf =ki7z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Actual capacity of SDXC cards
by Anton Aylward 06 Nov '16

06 Nov '16

I bought some 32G micro SD cards on eBay, and on advice I check to see if they were all actually 32G. There's a program available under Linux called "f3". I'm running 3.5.0 http://oss.digirati.com.br/f3/ What it does is write a pattern, step and repeat To quote from the man page <quote> F3 (Fight Flash Fraud or Fight Fake Flash) tests the full capacity of a flash card (flash drive, flash disk, pendrive). It writes to the card and then checks if can read it. It will assure you haven't been sold a card with a smaller capacity than stated. When writing to flash drive, f3write fills the filesystem with 1GB files named N.h2w, where N is a number (i.e. /[0-9]+/). </quote> The the f3read program verifies. You have control over the starting and ending numbers, so if you think the 32G drive is actually a 8G you can skip the first 6G and just do 7G to 9G. I found that indeed the 32G labelled chips were actually 8G. There's a tool that re-writes the chip ID info and so I made sure that theses 8G chips said they were 8G. And I got my money back. FOSS wins out again. There are free version of similar tools for Windows as well. ------------------- I do however have a question. Running these tests takes a lot of time. I'm wondering if there is a quicker way. I'm wondering if there is a file system whereby the mkfs builds a FS structure all the way down to the supposed end of the media, perhaps some kind of b-tree, then the fsck verifies it actually is what it supposed to be, that if the supposed 32G was actually a 8G and writes wrapped around somehow. checking the (empty, before commuting data) tree structure would show this up and give some clue as to the where? It seems reasonable to me, but a simple fsck fail would not give information on the actual size, would it? Just that the structure was buqqered. Any thoughts on this? -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] SSD Upgrade
by John Andersen 05 Nov '16

05 Nov '16

Thinking of replacing my Drive with a SSD. Probably happen about the time Leap 42.2 comes out. Any words of wisdom here? I'm thinking I'll do the same drill I normally do, Fresh install, then copy /home a and /data over into similar partition sizes that I have before. What to look out for? Any problem with a couple xfs/Luks partitions on the SSD? Brands? -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] A quick grub2-rescue question
by Greg Freemyer 05 Nov '16

05 Nov '16

I've got a PC that used to dual boot with openSUSE and Windows. The current user of the PC decided they only wanted Windows so they blew away the openSUSE partition. Not surprisingly, it no longer boots in Windows via the menu. And openSUSE is no longer and option. It now boots up to grub-rescue. Then this series of commands works: set root=(hd0,5) set prefix=(hd0,5)/boot/grub2 insmod normal normal What command can I run inside grub-rescue to save that root and prefix? Thanks Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Using sed to retrieve only the 2nd of 3 words on tab-separated line.
by Greg Freemyer 05 Nov '16

05 Nov '16

I have a long file full of tab-separated records. A couple samples lines: 99616256-ZIP-335231 378599456976549 4797677379\x097997/378507976549\x0977-\x09949776-791/ 99616256-ZIP-915437 4597093459474773 4770\x097428-84473-4597009474773-877-4-045270947 9 I'm only interested in the middle field: 378599456976549 4597093459474773 I'm thought I could use sed to strip off the first word via: sed -i "s|.*\t||" filename But that is deleting both of the first 2 fields. What's the right magic sed command? Thanks Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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re: [opensuse] Bluetoothproblem on Tumbleweed. Softlocked device on a Wind U100 (32 bit) would not open?
by stakanov＠freenet.de 04 Nov '16

04 Nov '16

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: stakanov(a)freenet.de > Gesendet: Do. 03.11.2016 07:35 > An: opensuse , > Betreff: [opensuse] Bluetoothproblem on Tumbleweed. Softlocked device on a Wind U100 (32 bit) would not open? > > I installed TW on a Wind U100 with a BT/WLAN combicard that worked well with opensuse 13.2. > I had BT deactivated (hardwarewise) without noticing it. > I then tried to activate it after install. > Listing shows that now hardware block is off. > But softwareblock is on. > > Now I tried to find where. I tried with bluez and to activate the device there. But no reaction. It seems > powered off (not true because visible in console) > I tried to change the value in bluedevilglobalrc to > [Global] > bluetoothBlocked=false > > That stays but the device remains "softblocked". > Where can the glitch be?? > Is there a possibility that for some reasons another programme (or systemd) governs this? > I am not aware of a layer between CLI showing the device and KDE. So KDE should be the only instance governing > it software wise, isn't it? > This is really particular and seems to be a permission problem that TW has. As this is a new install, there cannot be any upgrade problem. The BT adapter works if you login first as root in kde and log out again. Then BT is activated and sees the device. BUT, during this, the pairing seems to be lost. So BT will see the device but will not be able to connect. Subsequently it is possible to erase it and pair it again. However it will work only for the session. If suspended to ram or restarted, you will run into the same problem. It is curious that opensuse has so many BT problems. I have seen this in 132, Leap 42.1 had audio problems and obex failures and not TW that I expected to excel again a fail. Is this due to complicated specifications? As this has to do with permissions I will file a complete bug report. At least a BT mouse should work in a modern system. --- Die Bundesliga hat begonnen! Alle Tore, alle Ergebnisse, alle News: Pocket Liga jetzt im https://app.adjust.com/dpynzd oder https://app.adjust.com/dpynzd herunterladen - kostenlos! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Missing h.264 support in Firefox 44.0
by Krisztián Angyal 04 Nov '16

04 Nov '16

Hi I got a problem with playing videos in firefox 44.0 under opensuse leap 42.1. I installed codecs like written on the http://opensuse-guide.org/codecs.php website, but the problem still exists. When I open youtube's html5 support site, I can see, that the codecs are correctly installed and working, excepted H.264. Firefox can play html5 videos, but other sites like vimeo or tumblr can't. All values under about:config -> mediasource.*.enabled are true. Youtube can play html5 videos, but many other sites like facebook, tumblr etc. can't. How could I let firefox play mp4 videos? Thank you for your help :) -- Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards Krisztián Angyal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] okular preview (for text viewer) Howto preview with syntax highlight?
by David C. Rankin 03 Nov '16

03 Nov '16

All, I've played with KDE Frameworks 5.27.0 and can't find the "Embedded Advanced Text Editor" preview katepart backend. The only preview for text offered is okular. How do you preview code from dolphin or 'konqueror --profile filemanagement' with syntax highlight? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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