At 09:56 PM 17/02/2006, you wrote:
scsijon wrote:
At 10:52 PM 15/02/2006, you wrote:
configuring the pcmcia, but not completely so I can't read
the cd and need to copy the cd content to the hard drive.
Jean-Daniel, have you tried to contact the driver's creator via
Freshmeat
no. it was
scsijon wrote:
you saw my note in another message on pcmcia ramcards i take it
yes. but the problem is not making this particular pc to
work, but making the larger possible numberr of pc work, so
it's desirable to know what the ram limit is.
when installed, the system works. install should not
On Friday 17 February 2006 05:56, jdd wrote:
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no. it was not the main concern - coted only to give the
hole thing. In fact an other pcmcia cd works, so the problem
is probably a hardware problem and I wont bother the driver
programmer for an obsolete hardware.
*cough* *cough*
Atleast you
Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
Atleast you finally decided to check the hardware :)
I always did and never complained about this one.
jdd
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Carlos E. R. wrote:
I installed a SuSE 6.x on a 386SX, 5Mb ram - just to prove myself it is
possible. The installer would certainly not run,
I know, I tried the same :-)
but I simply took the HD
to another computer, and installed it there.
it's a good solution, if applicable. here I have
Carlos E. R. wrote:
He is thinking of image meaning photos or graphics. A language
translation missunderstanding.
yes and no :-). yes in the first place, I don't see a kernel
as an image (for me if not a picture an image is a disk),
but then no, because it's possible to have a much smaller
I've got a little better now. found the alt F9 console in
linuxrc to test memory
I did the following, monitoring the process from aF9 and aF2
unplug all what was not strictly necessary (cd, net, even
mouse and floppy-all but the AC plug :-)
lauch install. directly from the copied cd (no need
well. it was pretty tricky but I manage to get a functional
10.0 on my tiny box :-)
even Windowmaker runs well
I have still to understand why the pcmcia cdrom don't works
from install, this would be much more handy, but secondary.
I will also try SUPER. However it seems that there is no
more
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 19:12, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 13:18, jdd wrote:
Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
You can't have a single distro that does everything
why not :-).
Because it isn't practical. Look at Debian... its stable,
At 01:17 AM 16/02/2006, you wrote:
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+1 YaST rules but YaST is *Big_n_Fat* ;-)
It makes the whole thing, each release, *far* too hangry with new
hardware power
to my point of view too!
all my updates are done in a window set as init3 (text mode), not
that fat and a lot less
At 10:52 PM 15/02/2006, you wrote:
Pascal Bleser wrote:
10.0 is significantly faster but crashes in the same area,
cut
this install tools is
configuring the pcmcia, but not completely so I can't read
the cd and need to copy the cd
I have a problem with the two openSUSE distributions (10.0
and 10.1).
For more than ten years, now, I push Linux to users with
little money, to be used on not so old computers, still
perfectly working.
It seems not to work anymore with SUSE Linux.
My actual test PC is an Acer travelmate sub
jdd wrote:
I have a problem with the two openSUSE distributions (10.0
and 10.1).
For more than ten years, now, I push Linux to users with
little money, to be used on not so old computers, still
perfectly working.
It seems not to work anymore with SUSE Linux.
My actual test PC is an Acer
Pascal Bleser wrote:
10.0 is significantly faster but crashes in the same area,
all this making install impossible (of course Ncurse
version, not graphical ones).
Sounds like a bug report. Any further information ?
Are you able to partition it manually ? (fdisk + mkreiserfs)
in fact the
jdd schrieb:
http://www.novell.com/products/suselinux/sysreqs.html
Main memory: At least 256 MB; 512 MB recommended
and most low end computers have only 128
notice that I don't really need 10.0, I could really well
live with 9.1 if the security upadtes where here. after all
the
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
What about switching to SLES 9? It is very similar to SUSE
Linux 9.1 and has a much longer support period.
I speak of cheap solutions. I don't know if such clients
could afford a paid solution. However I don't know what is
the price.
and the specification is the
Hi,
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, jdd wrote:
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
What about switching to SLES 9? It is very similar to SUSE
Linux 9.1 and has a much longer support period.
I speak of cheap solutions. I don't know if such clients
could afford a paid solution. However I don't know what is
Hi,
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, jdd wrote:
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
What about switching to SLES 9? It is very similar to SUSE
Linux 9.1 and has a much longer support period.
I speak of cheap solutions. I don't know if such clients
could
jdd a �crit :
Jean-Daniel could you *please* avoid such stupid and polemic statements.
Thank you Pascal for the answer to my previous question! I'll use *this* to
accentuate!
Of course no one wants to push all these people out of SUSE world,
such statements are - excuse me - just plain dumb.
Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
You can do ALT-CTRL-F2 and activate your swap partition.
curious thing.
a swap partition is already active as I mentioned (250Mo).
10.1 install asked (proposed partition sheme) to have a
second one.
I did it, mkswap, swap on.. and this broke yast (stalled,
need to
i'm back.
I don't want to flame anything/anybody, so please keep
trying to be constructive.
exposure of motivations:
The hardware situation:
may be I'm wrong, but It xeems to me that we are in a period
where hardware changes are slowing (I speak of central
units/motherboard). I don't really
guesses about problems and solutions.
Users asks for more and more friendly installations. now
used kernels are so hudge they need more than 3 floppies to
boot. 10.1 root image is 70Mo.
this is certainly needed for many users.
SUSE must be granted to have a yast version with ncurse UI
and
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:49:15PM +0100, jdd wrote:
* can we run a completely unattended install? no yast at all?
In fact, could this be a solution: I know there is an option
do do so or nearly, for mass installs.
Factories do a sort of dd of the whole HD. They plug in the HD and with
the
Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
You can't have a single distro that does everything
why not :-).
of course if it would need a complete rewrite, it would not
be possible.
however I feel like there is little to do. After all the
SUSE 9.1 runs on the test machine, what have 10.0 to don't?
there are
Hello,
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
By having an uncompressed rootimage directly on CD, you
might save quite a bit of memory during installation.
A first rough estimate would be 60 MB less which could be
quite noticeable on older hardware. I could be wrong on this.
However, this makes it
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 13:18, jdd wrote:
Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
You can't have a single distro that does everything
why not :-).
Because it isn't practical. Look at Debian... its stable, works on a variety
of platforms and development is racing along at the speed of a turtle
with
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 13:34 -0500, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 13:18, jdd wrote:
Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
You can't have a single distro that does everything
why not :-).
Because it isn't practical. Look at Debian... its stable, works on a variety
of
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 13:39, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 13:34 -0500, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 13:18, jdd wrote:
Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
You can't have a single distro that does everything
why not :-).
Because it isn't
Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 13:18, jdd wrote:
Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
You can't have a single distro that does everything
why not :-).
Because it isn't practical. Look at Debian... its stable, works on a variety
of platforms and development is racing along
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Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 13:18, jdd wrote:
Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
You can't have a single distro that does everything
why not :-).
Because it isn't practical. Look at Debian... its stable, works on a variety
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The Wednesday 2006-02-15 at 18:49 +0100, jdd wrote:
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once installed, the console / yast version runs quite well
on a mush less demanding system than the one advertised on
the box. (-we should have an idea of the true limits to
advertise them
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