On Monday 07 May 2001 12:29, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:

I installed staroffice (so_base and so_en rpms).

Now when I try to tun it, it goes through the first time install trick (copying itself to a subdir under my home dir) and the second time aroundit tells me: ``Failed to load necesary components'' and then exits.

If I do a full local install (where it copies 300 orso megs to a subdir under my home dir) it complaisn that it cannot register a whole dungload of .so files (I guess all of the ones under /opt/office52/program).

Anyone have any clue ?

Suse 7.1 w/ 2.4 kernel. staroffice rpms from Suse71 DVD

Kind regards, -- I've installed it a couple of times from the CD-ROM without any failures at all, but i remember something on the list a while ago about SO install/configure problems in 7.1. Check the mail-archive.

Cheers, ei -- @~~~ EagleIce ~~~~ eagleice@telia.com ~~~~ Running SuSE Linux 7.1 ~~~@ @~ Webmaster http://erin.se ~~~ http://www.inspired-leadership.com ~@

Ok, from Erdal's message, this seems simple enough and does include at least one step I didn't know about, BUT (big but), what if I don't want to upset my existing 2 kernals ( I run both 2.2.xx and 2.4.0-4BG for different reasons) I want to add an extra one, what changes to the proceedure do I need to do? and, if I download the already compiled SuSE kernal rpm's such as 2.4.2 from the 7.1's /kernal area how do handle these? I'm most likely asking something that's in a howto, if so just give me the referance please and i'll try that first. thanks scsijon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erdal MUTLU Arastirma Gorevlisi" To: "Stefaans Mostert" Cc: Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 9:03 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] kernel

Hello,

the procedure is quite the same. Briefly, what I am doing is :

Download the latest and greatest linux kernel from SuSE or www.kernel.org

cd /usr/src rm linux ln -s new-linux-kernel linux cd linux make mrproper; make clean; make menuconfig make dep;make modules;make modules_install;make bzImage

#Make a copy of your original kernel image, in case your new one have #some problem cp /boot/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz.org

#Copy the new one cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz cp System.map /boot

#edit /etc/lilo.conf or /etc/chos.conf which one you use lilo # or chos

If it is all ok, then reboot and enjoy.

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On Tue, 8 May 2001, Stefaans Mostert wrote:

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Hi all

I was wondering I want to install the newest kernel on my suse box 7.1 wich by the way I think is great( after I figured out /etc/rc.conf) But the suse way still confuses me slightly. What exactly would I need to upgrade my kernel? I am used to compiling from source, and would like to compile again if possible, as I am planning to switch some major servers over to suse.

I am espetially conserned about the packages , like kernel headers and

kernel

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utils and hdparm for my ide drives wich I use quite often.

I am running the stock 2.4.0 kernel currently. Can someone also explain where I tell my system wich modules to use in modules.conf ? the suse version looks strange to me and I don't understand it.

I am learing suse more each day and think I am a convert. ;-) I like it more and more.

also there seems to be a problem with my live update in yast2 it doesn't want to finish and gives me an error message.BTW does anyone know of a mirror in South-Africa?

Tnx all

Stefaans

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On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:09:57PM +0300, Erdal MUTLU Arastirma Gorevlisi wrote:

Hello,

If you want to preserve oder kernels (of course if realy need this? I wonder why you use old ones when there sertainly there is a corresponding part in the new kernel?) you need to edit /etc/lilo.conf so that you can boot from other kernels also. For example

That's easy. :) You ALWAYS want to be able to boot from your older kernel when you've just installed a new one. You have no idea whether the new one will work, or whether you've made some config mistake, until you've tried it. And you don't ever want to be stuck in a situation where you can't get back to the last known good state. If you have a lilo.conf that has the following two entries: image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 # or whatever image=/boot/vmlinuz.old label=old root=/dev/hda1 # or whatever then when you compile your kernel, you can use "make bzlilo" instead of "make bzImage" and the kernels will be swapped out and lilo will be run automatically. -tara