I have just upgraded my linux machines to 9.3 via new installation and have several questions/problems. During boot there is a SuSE Norvell banner across the bottom of the screen that I find rather annoying. Kind of silly, but how do I get rid of it? I replaced hda with a 120GB HD to have a printine machine for the new installation, but the installer only found 110.8GB. What happened to the missing 9.2GB? Of a more serious nature is the fact that I have three hard drives on the tower machine. The fstab shows the following: /dev/hda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hdb2 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdc1 /data2 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 When I installed v9.0 the installer found /dev/hdb3 which is formatted as a reiser file system and a number of vfat partitions which were also on hdb. Now, I didn't touch either hdb or hdc so how do I access those drives and partitions? In general, I am pleased so far. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
I have just upgraded my linux machines to 9.3 via new installation and have several questions/problems.
During boot there is a SuSE Norvell banner across the bottom of the screen that I find rather annoying. Kind of silly, but how do I get rid of it?
Try # $man mkinitrd You can get rid of the splash screen or even make your own one. In 9.1 they're in /etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/images; so I imagine they're somewhere similar in 9.3.
I replaced hda with a 120GB HD to have a printine machine for the new installation, but the installer only found 110.8GB. What happened to the missing 9.2GB?
Probably not missing. My 80 Gb HD has physically only 76 Gb or so. AFAICT the manufacturers count a Gigabyte as 1000^3 bytes rather than 2^30 bytes; so you lose about 7%. This has been going on for as long as I can remember.
Of a more serious nature is the fact that I have three hard drives on the tower machine. The fstab shows the following:
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hdb2 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdc1 /data2 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
When I installed v9.0 the installer found /dev/hdb3 which is formatted as a reiser file system and a number of vfat partitions which were also on hdb. Now, I didn't touch either hdb or hdc so how do I access those drives and partitions?
Mount them. You can mount them temporarily as root with (say) # mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt If you want them more permanently, you'll need to create your own mount points (empty directories somewhere in the filesystem) and put suitable entries in /etc/fstab. Generally I make my own entries and more or less copy existing entries, but you may be able to do this within YaST (System > Partitioner?) -- JDL
Stephen, On Saturday 23 April 2005 04:52, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
I have just upgraded my linux machines to 9.3 via new installation and have several questions/problems.
...
I replaced hda with a 120GB HD to have a printine machine for the new installation, but the installer only found 110.8GB. What happened to the missing 9.2GB?
The 120GB advertised capacity of the drive is to be interpreted as 120,000,000,000 bytes. In computerists units a "kilo" (K) is 1024, a "mega" is 1024 * 1024 = 1048576 and a "giga" (G) is 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 1073741824. Dividing 120,000,000,000 by 1073741824 gives 111.759. I'm not sure about the remaining gigabyte (it could be lost to formatting overhead or reserved for something internal to the drive's operation such as bad block remapping), but basically nothing's wrong.
Of a more serious nature is the fact that I have three hard drives on the tower machine. The fstab shows the following:
...
When I installed v9.0 the installer found /dev/hdb3 which is formatted as a reiser file system and a number of vfat partitions which were also on hdb. Now, I didn't touch either hdb or hdc so how do I access those drives and partitions?
Add the relevant entries to your /etc/fstab.
In general, I am pleased so far.
Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
Randall Schulz
Can anyone tell me why on a fresh SUSSE 9.2 install that no matter how I futz with yast, that my external ethernet card gets an additional IP address assigned to it, something like 169 something or other. ruben -- __________________________ Brooklyn Linux Solutions So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://fairuse.nylxs.com "Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME" http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Consulting http://www.inns.net <-- Happy Clients http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive or stories and articles from around the net http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/downtown.html - See the New Downtown Brooklyn....
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 10:18:58AM -0700, Ruben Safir wrote: Can anyone tell me why on a fresh SUSSE 9.2 install that no matter how I futz with yast, that my external ethernet card gets an additional IP address assigned to it, something like 169 something or other. ruben -- __________________________ Brooklyn Linux Solutions So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://fairuse.nylxs.com "Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME" http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Consulting http://www.inns.net <-- Happy Clients http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive or stories and articles from around the net http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/downtown.html - See the New Downtown Brooklyn.... -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com -- __________________________ Brooklyn Linux Solutions So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://fairuse.nylxs.com "Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME" http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Consulting http://www.inns.net <-- Happy Clients http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive or stories and articles from around the net http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/downtown.html - See the New Downtown Brooklyn....
Op zaterdag 23 april 2005 19:21, schreef Ruben Safir:
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 10:18:58AM -0700, Ruben Safir wrote: Can anyone tell me why on a fresh SUSSE 9.2 install that no matter how I futz with yast, that my external ethernet card gets an additional IP address assigned to it, something like 169 something or other.
I think it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf >> Wonderful, another micarcle provided by the experts. How do I turn it off, or am I going to have to rip out the entire /etc/rc.d/network script and replace it with a working version? Ruben -- __________________________ Brooklyn Linux Solutions So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://fairuse.nylxs.com "Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME" http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Consulting http://www.inns.net <-- Happy Clients http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive or stories and articles from around the net http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/downtown.html - See the New Downtown Brooklyn....
Thanks for your reply. On Saturday April 23, 2005 01:12 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Stephen,
On Saturday 23 April 2005 04:52, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
I have just upgraded my linux machines to 9.3 via new installation and have several questions/problems.
...
I replaced hda with a 120GB HD to have a printine machine for the new installation, but the installer only found 110.8GB. What happened to the missing 9.2GB?
The 120GB advertised capacity of the drive is to be interpreted as 120,000,000,000 bytes. In computerists units a "kilo" (K) is 1024, a "mega" is 1024 * 1024 = 1048576 and a "giga" (G) is 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 1073741824. Dividing 120,000,000,000 by 1073741824 gives 111.759. I'm not sure about the remaining gigabyte (it could be lost to formatting overhead or reserved for something internal to the drive's operation such as bad block remapping), but basically nothing's wrong.
Of a more serious nature is the fact that I have three hard drives on the tower machine. The fstab shows the following:
...
When I installed v9.0 the installer found /dev/hdb3 which is formatted as a reiser file system and a number of vfat partitions which were also on hdb. Now, I didn't touch either hdb or hdc so how do I access those drives and partitions?
Add the relevant entries to your /etc/fstab.
I tried that. The entry is: /dev/hdb5 /windows/E vfat noauto,user 0 0 /windows/E is there with drwxr-xr-x 3 computation users. When I attempt to mount the directory I get the message: 'mount: /dev/hdb5 is not a valid block device' It is, however, there on the system. The permissions are rw and the owner and group are root and disk respectively. So what else do I need to do?
In general, I am pleased so far.
Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
Randall Schulz
-- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry
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