SB Live Install Problems

David C. Johanson

29 Apr 2001 29 Apr '01

01:14

Got 7.1 successfully installed this evening without much difficulty once I set the speed to my Plextor CD-ROM to asychronous. However, setup does not want to install my Sound Blaster Live sound card. YaST-2 sees the card as Creative labs CT 4760 SB Live and wants to configure it as snd-card-0 but clicking next results in the message "An error occurred during installation" and the finish option is grayed out. What do I need to do to get this card installed. Also, when I run kmix, I don't get the panel of sliders to configure the sound card; I assume this is because the sound card did not install. Am I correct. Thanks, dave johanson

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Jerry Kreps

29 Apr 29 Apr

01:19

New subject: [SLE] SB Live Install Problems

On Saturday 28 April 2001 20:14, David C. Johanson wrote:

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Got 7.1 successfully installed this evening without much difficulty once I set the speed to my Plextor CD-ROM to asychronous.

Dave, is your PleXStor a scsi or IDE device?

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However, setup does not want to install my Sound Blaster Live sound card. YaST-2 sees the card as Creative labs CT 4760 SB Live and wants to configure it as snd-card-0 but clicking next results in the message "An error occurred during installation" and the finish option is grayed out. What do I need to do to get this card installed. Also, when I run kmix, I don't get the panel of sliders to configure the sound card; I assume this is because the sound card did not install. Am I correct.

I have an SB PC128 and Yast2 identified it as a CT 4670 for me too. I ended up using OSS, which identified it as an an SB Live card, but it works great! JLK

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Thanks,

dave johanson

David C. Johanson

11:10

New subject: [SLE] SB Live Install Problems

SCSI O.K., I purchased a copy of the OSS drivers a while back; I'll give that a go. thanks, dave

Ben Rosenberg

16:41

New subject: [SLE] SB Live Install Problems

* David C. Johanson (dcjohan@erols.com) [010429 04:06]: =>SCSI => =>O.K., I purchased a copy of the OSS drivers a while back; I'll give that =>a go. => =>thanks, Dave, You must have some other issue, because kernel 2.4.2 (stock SuSE) and alsa both support this card..why because I have one. This is the output from 'lspci -vv | less': -- 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10000 (rev 08) Subsystem: Creative Labs CT4832 SBLive! Value Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Steppi Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-

Jerry Kreps

19:27

New subject: [SLE] SB Live Install Problems

On Sunday 29 April 2001 06:10, David C. Johanson wrote:

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SCSI

O.K., I purchased a copy of the OSS drivers a while back; I'll give that a go.

Hope it not too far back... there are free downloads of the most recent drivers for the 2.2.x kernel if you use your serial number to gain access. JLK

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thanks,

dave

Gerhard den Hollander

19:38

New subject: [SLE] SB Live Install Problems

I have to install suse 7.1 on a bunch of machines. (all with same scsi driver, same video driver) I have installed one machine, and I would like some way to do the same install on a number of boxes. My current idea is to 1) Make a bootable CD (sort like Suse rescue CD) with perl and some other nifty stuff . 2) make tarballs of my current install and stick them on (a bunch of) CDs 3) boot from CD1) run the install script which will - format harddrive(s) - mkreiserfs on hda5 hda6 - untar tarrballs from CD2 - > cd99 Now my main question is: - How do I make a CD1 (or more to the point, how do I make such a bootable iso image ? Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515 Technical Support Jason Geosystems BV Fax +31-10.280.1511 (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1) gdenhollander@jasongeo.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.jasongeo.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands This e-mail and any attachment is/are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and may contain information that is confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, we request that you do not disseminate, forward, distribute or copy this e-mail message. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and destroy the original message.

Steven Hatfield

22:51

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On Sunday 29 April 2001 03:38 pm, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:

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I have to install suse 7.1 on a bunch of machines. (all with same scsi driver, same video driver) I have installed one machine, and I would like some way to do the same install on a number of boxes.

My current idea is to 1) Make a bootable CD (sort like Suse rescue CD) with perl and some other nifty stuff . 2) make tarballs of my current install and stick them on (a bunch of) CDs 3) boot from CD1) run the install script which will - format harddrive(s) - mkreiserfs on hda5 hda6 - untar tarrballs from CD2 - > cd99

Now my main question is: - How do I make a CD1 (or more to the point, how do I make such a bootable iso image ?

Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515 Technical Support Jason Geosystems BV Fax +31-10.280.1511 (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1) gdenhollander@jasongeo.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.jasongeo.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands

This e-mail and any attachment is/are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and may contain information that is confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, we request that you do not disseminate, forward, distribute or copy this e-mail message. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and destroy the original message.

I have an idea though, that you might want to get other people's advice on. If you have several machines, all with the same configuration as a machine that you already have set up just like you want, why not ghost the hard drive of the first machine onto the hard drives of the other machines? All it would take, if I'm not mistaken, is to place the hard drives of the other machines into the /dev/hdb position (2nd position, next to the first drive on the master machine) and dd (device dump) all of the data from /dev/hda to /dev/hdb, and then put the now identical hard drive back into the other machine. This would probably save you a ton of time, since drive to drive copies are extremely fast when they are sitting right next to each other on the same IDE channel. Good luck, Steven

Gerhard den Hollander

1 May 1 May

07:49

New subject: Duplicating a Suse install

* Steven Hatfield (Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 06:51:55PM -0400)

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I have to install suse 7.1 on a bunch of machines. (all with same scsi driver, same video driver) I have installed one machine, and I would like some way to do the same install on a number of boxes.

My current idea is to 1) Make a bootable CD (sort like Suse rescue CD) with perl and some other nifty stuff . 2) make tarballs of my current install and stick them on (a bunch of) CDs 3) boot from CD1) run the install script which will - format harddrive(s) - mkreiserfs on hda5 hda6 - untar tarrballs from CD2 - > cd99

Now my main question is: - How do I make a CD1 (or more to the point, how do I make such a bootable iso image ?

[8<]

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that you already have set up just like you want, why not ghost the hard drive of the first machine onto the hard drives of the other machines? All it would take, if I'm not mistaken, is to place the hard drives of the other machines into the /dev/hdb position

This would probbaly work, if it weren';t for the fact that some of the machines are in offices at the other end of the world ;) Gerhard, <@jasongeo.com> == The Acoustic Motorbiker == -- __O Standing above the crowd, he had a voice so strong and loud =`\<, we'll miss him (=)/(=) Ranting and pointing his finger, At everything but his heart we'll miss him

James Oakley

13:54

New subject: [SLE] Duplicating a Suse install

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 1, 2001 04:49 am, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:

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* Steven Hatfield (Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 06:51:55PM -0400)

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I have to install suse 7.1 on a bunch of machines. (all with same scsi driver, same video driver) I have installed one machine, and I would like some way to do the same install on a number of boxes.

My current idea is to 1) Make a bootable CD (sort like Suse rescue CD) with perl and some other nifty stuff . 2) make tarballs of my current install and stick them on (a bunch of) CDs 3) boot from CD1) run the install script which will - format harddrive(s) - mkreiserfs on hda5 hda6 - untar tarrballs from CD2 - > cd99

Now my main question is: - How do I make a CD1 (or more to the point, how do I make such a bootable iso image ?

[8<]

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that you already have set up just like you want, why not ghost the hard drive of the first machine onto the hard drives of the other machines? All it would take, if I'm not mistaken, is to place the hard drives of the other machines into the /dev/hdb position

This would probbaly work, if it weren';t for the fact that some of the machines are in offices at the other end of the world ;)

If you 'dd' the partitions, will they fit on a cd? That's easier and faster than using tarballs, especially because the filesystems will be intact. You won't have to do any formatting. You can probably span over CDs as well, but it's easiest not to split single partitions. You can dispense with the bootable CD and use a floppy disk, too. I've made bootable CDs before a looong time ago and it was a PITA. Nowadays I clone boxes with SystemImager at http://www.systemimager.org I find using it over a 100MB network is much quicker than using CDs. I was thinking of making bootable SystemImager CDs that quickly set up a server, from which multiple computers can be imaged simultaneously. Stick it on a laptop and it's portable. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE67sAB+FOexA3koIgRAnHoAJ4/EjZ4lkCvaN6s/Q1ONhebl/frcgCcD9pT vOOu4Fyh7ob2gjL6kAjtpCY= =glkw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Rafael E. Herrera

14:26

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Check out ALICE. This long ass URL is from the suse linux portal, hope it works. http://portal.suse.de/en/content.php?3occccccccccccccccccccmcccccccaccocccccccococcccccccccccccccc&content/business/alice1.html -- Rafael

James Oakley

14:53

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 1, 2001 11:26 am, Rafael E. Herrera wrote:

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Check out ALICE. This long ass URL is from the suse linux portal, hope it works.

http://portal.suse.de/en/content.php?3occccccccccccccccccccmcccccccaccocccc cccococcccccccccccccccc&content/business/alice1.html

I found that you can shorten the URLs for the SuSE portal: http://portal.suse.de/en/content.php?&content/business/alice1.html Just get rid of everything between the '?' and '&' characters. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE67s3U+FOexA3koIgRAopHAKCyevCiE9KikLejjY+UykKHUaqsrgCeKqbI fMdQkCvUPJ4Z5suPCEvVmeo= =nr2c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Herman Knief

14:37

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System imager (mentioned below) is a decent tool... there is also SuSE's ALICE, which allows you to create an install server. After that, you have the issue of keeping all the machines up to date with patches, etc. Rsync, cfengine and other tools can help you out here. - Herman James Oakley wrote:

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On May 1, 2001 04:49 am, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:

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* Steven Hatfield (Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 06:51:55PM -0400)

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I have to install suse 7.1 on a bunch of machines. (all with same scsi driver, same video driver) I have installed one machine, and I would like some way to do the same install on a number of boxes.

My current idea is to 1) Make a bootable CD (sort like Suse rescue CD) with perl and some other nifty stuff . 2) make tarballs of my current install and stick them on (a bunch of) CDs 3) boot from CD1) run the install script which will - format harddrive(s) - mkreiserfs on hda5 hda6 - untar tarrballs from CD2 - > cd99

Now my main question is: - How do I make a CD1 (or more to the point, how do I make such a bootable iso image ?

[8<]

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that you already have set up just like you want, why not ghost the hard drive of the first machine onto the hard drives of the other machines? All it would take, if I'm not mistaken, is to place the hard drives of the other machines into the /dev/hdb position

This would probbaly work, if it weren';t for the fact that some of the machines are in offices at the other end of the world ;)

If you 'dd' the partitions, will they fit on a cd? That's easier and faster than using tarballs, especially because the filesystems will be intact. You won't have to do any formatting. You can probably span over CDs as well, but it's easiest not to split single partitions. You can dispense with the bootable CD and use a floppy disk, too. I've made bootable CDs before a looong time ago and it was a PITA.

Nowadays I clone boxes with SystemImager at http://www.systemimager.org

I find using it over a 100MB network is much quicker than using CDs. I was thinking of making bootable SystemImager CDs that quickly set up a server, from which multiple computers can be imaged simultaneously. Stick it on a laptop and it's portable.

- -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

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