Re: [opensuse] Thoughts on "official" OpenSUSE forums

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:43:36PM -0500, Keith Kastorff wrote: > 1) community > > An official sponsored forum probably won't do much for a sense of > community, unless one defines a community as having some corporate > sanction. We are talking about the openSUSE comunity, not about Novell > 2)

[opensuse] Thoughts on "official" OpenSUSE forums

I joined the OpenSUSE mailing list after suseforums staff made me aware of the dialog regarding official forums. I believe I've read every comment on the issue via the archives and live list. I've been silent so far, aside from some limited public dialog on suseforums.net and private dialog with su

Re: [opensuse] Status Meeting?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 houghi wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 01:57:30PM +0100, Juergen Weigert wrote: >> I will take care of recording that. > > Will there be live stream available, or will it be recorded and put online > later? (Or both?) No live stream. The uplink in

Re: [opensuse] 10.0 fails because (?) initrd omits ide-generic

Hi, Richard (MQ) schrieb: > > The install needs ide-generic (and various PCMCIA modules for network), > falls back to curses UI but completes the first stage OK. However it > won't boot - it seems the initrd hasn't included ide-generic so the hard > disc never appears to the kernel. Tried "modpro

Re: [opensuse] 10.0 fails because (?) initrd omits ide-generic

On Wednesday 22 February 2006 15:43, Richard (MQ) wrote: > Has anyone had any similar problems (perhaps with SATA?) Or is this > actually a bug in the initrd generation of 10.0? Have I got the wrong > end of the stick with mkinitrd? I had the same problem (p90, 96MB RAM). Here's what I did to fi

Re: [opensuse] 10.0 fails because (?) initrd omits ide-generic

Richard (MQ) wrote: > Hi List, > > I've been very impressed with 10.0 and 10.1 beta on some newer hardware, > but big problems trying to install 10.0 on old Toshiba 510 laptop [P133, > 140M ram] I just installed 10.0 on my acer travelmate 3230d with 77Mo ram t'was not always easy (small ram), bu

[opensuse] 10.0 fails because (?) initrd omits ide-generic

Hi List, I've been very impressed with 10.0 and 10.1 beta on some newer hardware, but big problems trying to install 10.0 on old Toshiba 510 laptop [P133, 140M ram]. FWIW, I'm currently using a network install via NFS but same happened with direct CD attempt. The install needs ide-generic (a

Re: [opensuse] mt fails to set datcompression on DLT tape drive [SOLVED]

Marcus Rueckert wrote: > On 2006-02-22 18:04:34 +0100, Ingo Freund wrote: > > from the upgrade path it is more secure to assume that your old config > is working. so we wont blindly exchange packages you used before. > well,that is a very good intention. And what about not working features that h

Re: [opensuse] mt fails to set datcompression on DLT tape drive [SOLVED]

On 2006-02-22 18:04:34 +0100, Ingo Freund wrote: > Marcus Rueckert wrote: > > > > may i ask: what should the installer do? > > > > > of course you may - and I'll anser your question :-) > > first I have upgraded the the machine, where has been > installed a SuSE 9.0. > The result was the same f

Re: [opensuse] mt fails to set datcompression on DLT tape drive [SOLVED]

Marcus Rueckert wrote: > > may i ask: what should the installer do? > > of course you may - and I'll anser your question :-) first I have upgraded the the machine, where has been installed a SuSE 9.0. The result was the same for mt or mtst (where "mtst" has been a link to "mt"). The system inst

Re: [opensuse] Bugreport permissions (was: Re: root password required to reboot beta4)

On Monday 20 February 2006 18:27, Christian Boltz wrote: > Or simply: > - open all SLES 10 bugs :-) Aha, what a beautiful dream. I love it. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PR

Re: [opensuse] mt fails to set datcompression on DLT tape drive [SOLVED]

On 2006-02-22 17:06:13 +0100, Ingo Freund wrote: > Thanks for the quick help, it seems to be the solution. > I've been looking around now for days to get some information > about this. > Really bad that the installer doesn't do the work it should do. may i ask: what should the installer do? with

Re: [opensuse] mt fails to set datcompression on DLT tape drive [SOLVED]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Ingo Freund wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>after installing a new SuSE 10.0 from scratch on my backup server >>I wanted to use mt like I was used to, which means switch off >>compression before writing to the DLT tape. >> >>this command always worked fine: >>mt -f /dev/st0 datcompressio

Re: [opensuse] Mounting an SD card with a Ricoh CardBus

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Berthold Gunreben wrote: > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Berthold Gunreben wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, CPHennessy wrote: > > > > > > I've a laptop with a SD card reader, which when I use "lspci" I can > > > > see > > > > is a

Re: [opensuse] mt fails to set datcompression on DLT tape drive

On 2006-02-22 16:34:54 +0100, Ingo Freund wrote: > after installing a new SuSE 10.0 from scratch on my backup server > I wanted to use mt like I was used to, which means switch off > compression before writing to the DLT tape. > > this command always worked fine: > mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression of

Re: [opensuse] mt fails to set datcompression on DLT tape drive

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Ingo Freund wrote: > Hi, > > after installing a new SuSE 10.0 from scratch on my backup server > I wanted to use mt like I was used to, which means switch off > compression before writing to the DLT tape. > > this command always worked fine: > mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression o

[opensuse] mt fails to set datcompression on DLT tape drive

Hi, after installing a new SuSE 10.0 from scratch on my backup server I wanted to use mt like I was used to, which means switch off compression before writing to the DLT tape. this command always worked fine: mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression off using this on 10.0, the answer always is "Compression

Re: [opensuse] makeSUSEdvd script not working

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Jan Karjalainen schrieb: This is weird, I get an error when mounting the iso: mount: could not find any device /dev/loop# And exactly that is your error. This has nothing to do with the .iso files or anything else. If your output of the floowing commands

Re: [opensuse] Meeting Minutes online

Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 08:59 schrieb jdd: > houghi wrote: > > Sorry for the delay, I first wanted to see a movie. > > http://en.opensuse.org/2006-02-21-status-meeting > > Please correct the spellingerrors I have undoubtly made. > > > > I will later split up the transcript as well, but first

Re: [opensuse] Status Meeting?

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 01:57:30PM +0100, Juergen Weigert wrote: > I will take care of recording that. Will there be live stream available, or will it be recorded and put online later? (Or both?) houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Le

Re: [opensuse] Status Meeting?

On Feb 22, 06 21:35:50 +1100, scsijon wrote: > >Not much ;) I'm back from university now and will try to put some > >improvements into download.openSUSE.org over the next weeks. At FOSDEM, > >houghi and myself will present a short talk (in the "speed talk" > >placeholder on Sunday), which features

Re: [opensuse] Xgl and 10.1

David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 11:51 schrieb scsijon: >> sorry Andreas J , and others >> but now i'm confused, >> but what gives with Xgl and 10.1 please? >> >> is it in 10.1 as per the earlier public release message

Re: [opensuse] Xgl and 10.1

Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 11:51 schrieb scsijon: > sorry Andreas J , and others > but now i'm confused, > but what gives with Xgl and 10.1 please? > > is it in 10.1 as per the earlier public release message or out as > per the status meeting minutes > > o

[opensuse] Xgl and 10.1

sorry Andreas J , and others but now i'm confused, but what gives with Xgl and 10.1 please? is it in 10.1 as per the earlier public release message or out as per the status meeting minutes or have I got the SuSE10.1 and opensuse 10.1 releases mixed up

Re: [opensuse] Status Meeting?

At 12:25 AM 22/02/2006, you wrote: On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Sonja Krause-Harder wrote: > > On the IRC meeting it was said there was no problems with mirrors. > > That's not quite true - it was clearly stated that there are problems. > We're working on improving the situation for North America a litt

Re: [opensuse] People in Melbourne Australia?

At 01:11 PM 21/02/2006, you wrote: I hope I've come to the right place ;-) Linux Users Victoria is holding an install-fest at the regional centre of Ballarat in about a month. Is there anyone on this list who wants to attend representing the SUSE community (you have to organise your own way) or

Re: [opensuse] Meeting Minutes online

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:59:48AM +0100, jdd wrote: > I notice this: > > * Communicate that we want to keep SDB clean of HOWTO > like writings > o Status: unclear > > it's a real question. when one write a page, do it in SDB or > not? are SDB articles specific for en and localized

Re: [opensuse] SUSE, OpenSUSE, SUSE Linux: confused...

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:08:34AM +0100, Thomas Hertweck wrote: > And if I get in addition answers like "sorry to be alive" > (this time it was via PM), it just shows again how "serious" some of the > emails > and replys are. First, my reply was: Sorry to be an active member and to have an opi

Re: [opensuse] SUSE, OpenSUSE, SUSE Linux: confused...

> I read many other mailing lists as well and, therefore, I > think that communication must be efficient, especially on a high-traffic > mailing list, and it makes no sense to reply to emails if everything is > already said or if the answer does not really match the original email, > etc. So, don't

Re: [opensuse] SUSE, OpenSUSE, SUSE Linux: confused...

Azerion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did not like H either after he flamed a newbie. BUT as you can read in > multiple mail-conversations he is not that bad. He had good questions in the > IRC-meeting (hey, I missed *you*), he does post his mind and so it may be a > bit better if you stay rel

Re: [opensuse] Meeting Minutes online

David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 01:23 schrieb houghi: >> Sorry for the delay, I first wanted to see a movie. >> http://en.opensuse.org/2006-02-21-status-meeting >> Please correct the spellingerrors I have undoubtly made. >> >> I will later split up the tran