Hi All, I' ve struggled to get a stable 9.1Pro install on a new ABIT KV7, but I think I have finally done it. The new MB from ABIT came at Bios rel 14, but just on Aug 19 they posted rel 17 to their tech supp web site. It has been a long time since I put up a sys with a floppy drive, but I found one and updated the MB bios from a DOS floppy. When will we be able to update modern MBs bios from within SUSE as easily as from Windows? I took the PC2700 (333MHz) RAM out and put in a stick of PC3200 (400MHz) and found a nice deal plus rebate on a nVidia 128MB AGP 8x video card. The ABIT folks recommended NOT using my older nVidia Quadro card, since their MB is made for the newer 0.8VDC AGP cards. The clean install went as smoothly as anyone could wish, w/o any special settings i.e. no ACPI, safe settings etc. Once the initial setup was done I was off to YASTs YOU for the first updates; I first selected only SUSE base and YAST updates, then rebooted. Next YOU was for all the KDE related updates, then next all the rest, except for the kernel updates and hotplug and the hardware updates. Once those updates were on and running I used YAST YOU to get the NVIDIA drivers. This was perfect!! I have never seen such an easy and quick NVIDIA driver update, even on XP. Thanks SUSE! YAST H/W section reports 3D operational. The new sys shows 4489.0 bogomips, and yes they do seem to be twice the CPU GHz. It is cranking out SETI@HOME units in between 2Hrs 46M and 3.5 Hrs. Ksetiwatch reports units processed at about 32% per Hr. The boot msgs suggest that this hardwae and kernel are handling ACPI stuff perfectly. I am so glad to have that ACPI mess in the past. There is no more "Ksoftirq" issues either. I suspect that my earlier probs might have involved a combo DVD-ROM CD-RW drive I used for the install and the new 2.4.7X kernel issues with IDE-SCSI. This install I had a plain DVD-ROM drive. This CPU (AMD XP2800) is running at 50 deg C with a no frills Heatsink/fan unit, a few deg C cooler if SETI isn't running). Sensors were setup and started painlessly. KDE looks and feels very nice; a lot of refinement added since 8.2 Ksetiwatch and GKrellm came up and just ran right the first time. Control Center/YAST has come along nicely. I used YAST > Install/Remove to install OPERA, and the next YOU run d/l'd and installed the new OPERA. Good work SUSE! YAST has an irritating habit of sometimes opening the "Administraitor's P/W" entry box UNDER the active window, but I only got fooled 5 or 6 times. I wish there was a check box for "Remember this P/W". YAST still ignores a click for the same module if you clicked, used and closed that module last time. Small thing to be sure but it just seems wrong to have to click another module even tho you are going to 'abort' it just to be able to start the last module again. KMoonphase is working. I missed it in 8.2 (sys said it was there but I never saw it). PeterB -- -- Proud to use SuSE Linux, since 5.2 Loving using SuSE Linux 9.1 MyBlog http://vancampen.org/blog/ Currently listening to Joseph Campbell http://www.jcf.org/ Free D/Ls after free registration --
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 04:34, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
updated the MB bios from a DOS floppy. When will we be able to update modern MBs bios from within SUSE as easily as from Windows? I took the
Like, right now! man dosbootdisk It's installed by default.
YAST has an irritating habit of sometimes opening the "Administraitor's P/W" entry box UNDER the active window, but I only got fooled 5 or 6 times. I wish there was a check box for "Remember this P/W". YAST still ignores a click for the same module if you clicked, used and closed that module last time. Small thing to be sure but it just seems wrong to have to click another module even tho you are going to 'abort' it just to be able to start the last module again.
With SUSE 9.1 w/out KDE 3.3: KDE Control Center, Security & Privacy, Passwords, set a very long timeout.
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 04:34, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
updated the MB bios from a DOS floppy. When will we be able to update modern MBs bios from within SUSE as easily as from Windows? I took the
Like, right now! man dosbootdisk It's installed by default. That doesn't work. I did not know of this so I was interested when I saw your post. I tried man dosbootdisk but get "no manual entry". I checked with YaST and it shows that dosbootdisk is installed. If
Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: there is no man, how can I get more info on dosbootdisk? I have SuSE 9.1 pro. Damon Register
Damon Register writes:
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 04:34, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
updated the MB bios from a DOS floppy. When will we be able to update modern MBs bios from within SUSE as easily as from Windows? I took the
Like, right now! man dosbootdisk It's installed by default. That doesn't work. I did not know of this so I was interested when I saw your post. I tried man dosbootdisk but get "no manual entry". I checked with YaST and it shows that dosbootdisk is installed. If
Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: there is no man, how can I get more info on dosbootdisk? I have SuSE 9.1 pro.
$ which dosbootdisk /usr/bin/dosbootdisk $ file /usr/bin/dosbootdisk /usr/bin/dosbootdisk: Bourne shell script text So it's just a shell script. Examining the script shows that all you do is use the following syntax: dosbootdisk [device] Where device is an optional floppy device, such as /dev/fd1. If none is specified, it will use /dev/fd0h1440. The rest is all interactive. It will create a bootable FreeDOS floppy by decompressing /usr/share/dosbootdisk/floppy.gz and then writing the image to the floppy disk. -Ti
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 06:53 am, Ti Kan wrote:
$ which dosbootdisk /usr/bin/dosbootdisk $ file /usr/bin/dosbootdisk /usr/bin/dosbootdisk: Bourne shell script text
So it's just a shell script. Examining the script shows that all you do is use the following syntax:
dosbootdisk [device]
Where device is an optional floppy device, such as /dev/fd1. If none is specified, it will use /dev/fd0h1440.
The rest is all interactive. It will create a bootable FreeDOS floppy by decompressing /usr/share/dosbootdisk/floppy.gz and then writing the image to the floppy disk.
Hello Ti, Thanks for that little tidbit. Have tried many times to make a boot disk and always failed. Now I have it. Bob S.
Peter B Van Campen wrote:
Hi All,
I' ve struggled to get a stable 9.1Pro install on a new ABIT KV7, but I think I have finally done it. The new MB from ABIT came at Bios rel 14, but just on Aug 19 they posted rel 17 to their tech supp web site. It has been a long time since I put up a sys with a floppy drive, but I found one and updated the MB bios from a DOS floppy. When will we be able to update modern MBs bios from within SUSE as easily as from Windows? I took the PC2700 (333MHz) RAM I flashed my new system (without floppy) by booting from CD. Just make a bootable CD from the floppy image. Maybe the only drawback is that I made the CD in Win, but I'm sure it must be possible from Linux. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong R&D Manager ACE electronics n.v.
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