Re: [opensuse] Reverse telnet to COM1/COM2

2005-10-24 Thread Paul Mansfield
GUESS WHO wrote: Tks for your answer. What is minicom..? Reverse telnet is a way of use telnet. If you are in a LAN network with other host you can get out through a serial port (to a modem for example) of another host using telnet. In Cisco routers the exercise is very simple. It's enough to

Re: [opensuse] Setting mount options for hotpluggable devices

2005-10-24 Thread Paul Mansfield
Guenter Lichtenberg wrote: The problem is that the disk has (of course) a Win*** file system (FAT 32 LBA) that does not know about lower and uppercase filenames. In principle I see two ways around this: could you create a cramfs file on the flash device and use a loopback mount to store your

Re: [opensuse] Posting on openSUSE

2005-10-18 Thread Paul Mansfield
houghi wrote: Can people please NOT toppost. (...) Also I would like the So who are the list maintainers/moderators? Do they exist? I start to doubt it, or they are on a holiday. It seems that there is no official point of view, wich means I can also there's nothing to stop you killfile'ing

Re: [opensuse] 0.5kbps bittorrent on a 2mb adsl!!???

2005-10-18 Thread Paul Mansfield
Joan Manuel Ventura Felix wrote: i tried to use bt but, is too slow, in must of the case. I too tried the torrents and I'd have died of old age first. I started FTP download in evening, finished by next evening. Does anyone know why the torrent seed is utterly useless? I am veyr sure it

Re: [opensuse] Feature Wishlist: Comment on Better handling of multiple harddisks

2005-09-28 Thread Paul Mansfield
Martin Mewes wrote: Why does everybody want swap to be twice the RAM size? There is no reason for that. Besides that, having swap on a disk which is mostly inactive will help. So moving swap to the disk with /var and /tmp makes sense. Maybe I am blind and maybe my knowledge here is rather old,

Re: [opensuse] Release Notes and SuSEguide

2005-09-28 Thread Paul Mansfield
Matt Downs wrote: On the Release Notes: you know, that's something I've never really looked at when I am installing SuSE. I always thought that Release Notes were just a list of bug-fixes and/or legal disclaimers. I'll have that reminds me... only after problems with one install where it

Re: [opensuse] Feature Wishlist: Comment on Better handling of multiple harddisks

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Mansfield
houghi wrote: My personal first concern would however still go out to a seperate /home for me, a separate /var is as important as a separate /home, but then, I came from a solaris on server background where you tend to create more partitions. I've never used the default suse partitions,

[opensuse] yast2 parted and scsi/usb layer deprecated SCSI ioctl

2005-09-22 Thread Paul Mansfield
Am running suse9.3 and self-built kernel 2.6.12.5 I just got a USB2-IDE adaptor and plugged it in. Didn't get recognised first time, disk and adaptor must have not been ready, replugged and it appeared as /dev/sda. Anyway, I partitioned the drive and happened to notice a sequence of errors

Re: [opensuse] Grub Config during Install

2005-09-13 Thread Paul Mansfield
related question... why can't yast detect what boot loader there is already. I upgraded a machine from suse9.2 to 9.3 and the /boot partition had been set up with lilo, but yast installer defaulted to grub. not a big thing for me to change during install, but it'd be neat if it could detect

Re: [opensuse] XEN

2005-09-13 Thread Paul Mansfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I just found a package in YaST xen-tools-ioemu (x86). In the description is written: You need virtualization support in hardware to make use of this. What kind of hardware support do I exactly need? I too am interested in this; I've currently tried wine,