Re: [opensuse] Installation Problems

2008-01-13 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Aaron Kulkis wrote: william oakes wrote: Makes sense. Dumb question, I have seen IIRC used in several posts, but I have no clue as to it's meaning or what it is, could you clarify? If I Remember Correctly wow...heavy electrons. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For addit

Re: [opensuse] Installation Problems

2008-01-12 Thread Aaron Kulkis
william oakes wrote: Makes sense. Dumb question, I have seen IIRC used in several posts, but I have no clue as to it's meaning or what it is, could you clarify? If I Remember Correctly -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Access a remote openSuSE installation sitting behind NAT

2008-01-11 Thread Marcin Floryan
Thanks for the example! I've had a busy evening last night mastering the technique and it works well enough. I have also come across an idea of using "hole punching" and UDP but it seems to be more complex. Nevertheless a third host is essential, luckily I had one. Cheers, On 11/01/2008, Sylveste

Re: [opensuse] Access a remote openSuSE installation sitting behind NAT

2008-01-11 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
Marcin Floryan wrote: Hello! Yup, crude solution but it seems to work very well. Thanks! Though I wonder now if there is any way to do that is I didn't have a public IP server at hand (ie. two machines behind NAT with no influence on the Firewall). More out of curiosity since the problem at han

Re: [opensuse] Access a remote openSuSE installation sitting behind NAT

2008-01-10 Thread peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcin Floryan wrote: | Though I wonder now if there is any way to do that is I didn't have a | public IP server at hand (ie. two machines behind NAT with no | influence on the Firewall). More out of curiosity since the problem at | hand has now been

Re: [opensuse] Access a remote openSuSE installation sitting behind NAT

2008-01-10 Thread Marcin Floryan
Hello! Yup, crude solution but it seems to work very well. Thanks! Though I wonder now if there is any way to do that is I didn't have a public IP server at hand (ie. two machines behind NAT with no influence on the Firewall). More out of curiosity since the problem at hand has now been solved.

Re: [opensuse] Access a remote openSuSE installation sitting behind NAT

2008-01-10 Thread James Knott
Marcin Floryan wrote: Hi! I have recently installed a fresh openSuSE 10.3 for one of my friends who mainly uses his box to browse the Internet and has little technical skills. It seems like he has some problems with the sound card setup and I would like to investigate but have no access to the c

Re: [opensuse] Access a remote openSuSE installation sitting behind NAT

2008-01-10 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
Marcin Floryan wrote: Hi! I have recently installed a fresh openSuSE 10.3 for one of my friends who mainly uses his box to browse the Internet and has little technical skills. It seems like he has some problems with the sound card setup and I would like to investigate but have no access to the c

[opensuse] Access a remote openSuSE installation sitting behind NAT

2008-01-10 Thread Marcin Floryan
Hi! I have recently installed a fresh openSuSE 10.3 for one of my friends who mainly uses his box to browse the Internet and has little technical skills. It seems like he has some problems with the sound card setup and I would like to investigate but have no access to the computer (ie. physical) a

Re: [opensuse] Installation Problems

2007-12-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 10 December 2007 21:28, william oakes wrote: > ... > > ... Dumb question, I have seen IIRC used in several posts, > but I have no clue as to it's meaning or what it is, could you > clarify? IIRC: "If I recall correctly." One of those lazy typist things. > .. > > Thanks, Bill... RRS

Re: [opensuse] Installation Problems

2007-12-10 Thread william oakes
On Monday 10 December 2007 18:52, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > On 12/10/2007 10:55 PM, william oakes wrote: > > I have tried all suggestions. Downloaded the iso again, re-burned it at > > slower speeds, etc. and still wind up with a broken DVD. On attempting > > to install, still get message that it

Re: [opensuse] Installation Problems

2007-12-10 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
On 12/10/2007 10:55 PM, william oakes wrote: > I have tried all suggestions. Downloaded the iso again, re-burned it at > slower speeds, etc. and still wind up with a broken DVD. On attempting to > install, still get message that it can't find the 10.3 repos. > > Md5 hashes match after download,

Re: [opensuse] Installation Problems

2007-12-10 Thread william oakes
On Saturday 08 December 2007 18:04, Bryen wrote: > On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 17:40 -0500, william oakes wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I am running open suse 10.2 on three of my computers. I have downloaded > > the 10.3 iso several times and the md5 hashes always check. However, when > > I go to verify

Re: [opensuse] Installation Problems

2007-12-08 Thread James Knott
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > On 12/09/2007 07:03 AM, James Knott wrote: > >> I have found DVD's tend to be a bit fussier than CD's. Can you burn CD >> images and use them? Another method is to loop mount the DVD ISO and >> share it via NFS. Then burn a network install CD and use that to do a >>

Re: [opensuse] Installation Problems

2007-12-08 Thread Rajko M.
On Saturday 08 December 2007 04:40:39 pm william oakes wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am running open suse 10.2 on three of my computers. I have downloaded > the 10.3 iso several times and the md5 hashes always check. However, when I > go to verify the DVD (many tried) after burning with either nero or

Re: [opensuse] Installation Problems

2007-12-08 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
On 12/09/2007 07:03 AM, James Knott wrote: > > I have found DVD's tend to be a bit fussier than CD's. Can you burn CD > images and use them? Another method is to loop mount the DVD ISO and > share it via NFS. Then burn a network install CD and use that to do a > network install from that shared

Re: [opensuse] Installation Problems

2007-12-08 Thread Bryen
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 17:40 -0500, william oakes wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am running open suse 10.2 on three of my computers. I have downloaded the > 10.3 iso several times and the md5 hashes always check. However, when I go to > verify the DVD (many tried) after burning with either nero or k3

Re: [opensuse] Installation Problems

2007-12-08 Thread James Knott
william oakes wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am running open suse 10.2 on three of my computers. I have downloaded the > 10.3 iso several times and the md5 hashes always check. However, when I go to > verify the DVD (many tried) after burning with either nero or k3b, the md5 > hash does not match and

[opensuse] Installation Problems

2007-12-08 Thread william oakes
Hi folks, I am running open suse 10.2 on three of my computers. I have downloaded the 10.3 iso several times and the md5 hashes always check. However, when I go to verify the DVD (many tried) after burning with either nero or k3b, the md5 hash does not match and at least k3b says the DVD is br

Re: [opensuse] Installation disk detection problems

2007-11-29 Thread Michael Fischer
On Thu, Nov 29, Michael Fischer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, Denis Brown wrote: > > Hello Michael. > > > > Sounds similar to my issue with 10.1 - drive unrecognised. Same with 10.2 > > IIRC > > > > ASUS P5K motherboard has onboard Jmicron chip. I could not get 10.1 to > > install. As it happe

Re: [opensuse] Installation disk detection problems

2007-11-29 Thread Michael Fischer
On Fri, Nov 30, Denis Brown wrote: > > Load the BIOS, pressing DEL just after power it on. Somewhere in the BIOS > > setup there should be an option for the JMicron drive controller("Onboard > > Devices" in the P5B BIOS menu). Set it to AHCI mode. Save and exit with > > F10. > > Thank yo

Re: [opensuse] Installation disk detection problems

2007-11-29 Thread Denis Brown
At 11:33 PM 29/11/2007, Stephan Hegel wrote: Michael Fischer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, Denis Brown wrote: >> ASUS P5K motherboard has onboard Jmicron chip. I could not get 10.1 to >> install. As it happened Ubuntu (7.0.4??) installed fine and I was content >> for a while. > > How exatly does

Problems with IDE Cable Select (was: [opensuse] Installation disk detection problems

2007-11-29 Thread Philippe Landau
James Knott wrote: > Philippe Landau wrote: >> Master/Slave was an obsession of the IDE protocol: >> There you need to set a jumper on each hard disk >> so that every IDE cable only has one master (and one slave), >> or CS (cable select) both. Sata does not need this. > Those master and slave jumpe

Re: [opensuse] Installation disk detection problems

2007-11-29 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Knott wrote: > Philippe Landau wrote: >> Michael Fischer wrote: >> >>> >> Master/Slave was an obsession of the IDE protocol: >> There you need to set a jumper on each hard disk >> so that every IDE cable only has one master (and one sl

Re: [opensuse] Installation disk detection problems

2007-11-29 Thread Michael Fischer
On Thu, Nov 29, Stephan Hegel wrote: > Michael Fischer wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 29, Denis Brown wrote: > >> ASUS P5K motherboard has onboard Jmicron chip. I could not get 10.1 to > >> install. As it happened Ubuntu (7.0.4??) installed fine and I was > >> content > >> for a while. > > > > How

Re: [opensuse] Installation disk detection problems

2007-11-29 Thread James Knott
Philippe Landau wrote: > Michael Fischer wrote: > >> Hmm. I can't quite figure out the whole master-slave port thing here. >> I can only see what happens in the BIOS reporting as I move the >> connections around on the motherboard. Putting both HD's into what >> appeared to be "slave" ports got

Re: [opensuse] Installation disk detection problems

2007-11-29 Thread Stephan Hegel
Michael Fischer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, Denis Brown wrote: >> ASUS P5K motherboard has onboard Jmicron chip. I could not get 10.1 to >> install. As it happened Ubuntu (7.0.4??) installed fine and I was content >> for a while. > > How exatly does one figure that out? If it has the Jmicron th

Re: [opensuse] Installation disk detection problems

2007-11-29 Thread Billie Walsh
On 11/28/2007 Philippe Landau wrote: > Michael Fischer wrote: > > > Hmm. I can't quite figure out the whole master-slave port thing > here. > > > I can only see what happens in the BIOS reporting as I move the > > > connections around on the motherboard. Putting both HD's into what > > > appeared t

Re: [opensuse] Installation disk detection problems

2007-11-28 Thread Philippe Landau
Michael Fischer wrote: > Hmm. I can't quite figure out the whole master-slave port thing here. > I can only see what happens in the BIOS reporting as I move the > connections around on the motherboard. Putting both HD's into what > appeared to be "slave" ports got the BIOS to say "hey, I can't find

Re: [opensuse] Installation disk detection problems

2007-11-28 Thread Alex Lau
在 2007-11-29四的 00:01 -0500,Michael Fischer写道: > On Thu, Nov 29, Denis Brown wrote: > > Hello Michael. > > > > Sounds similar to my issue with 10.1 - drive unrecognised. Same with 10.2 > > IIRC > > > > ASUS P5K motherboard has onboard Jmicron chip. I could not get 10.1 to > > install. As i

Re: [opensuse] Installation disk detection problems

2007-11-28 Thread Michael Fischer
On Thu, Nov 29, Denis Brown wrote: > Hello Michael. > > Sounds similar to my issue with 10.1 - drive unrecognised. Same with 10.2 > IIRC > > ASUS P5K motherboard has onboard Jmicron chip. I could not get 10.1 to > install. As it happened Ubuntu (7.0.4??) installed fine and I was content

Re: [opensuse] Installation disk detection problems

2007-11-28 Thread Denis Brown
Hello Michael. Sounds similar to my issue with 10.1 - drive unrecognised. Same with 10.2 IIRC ASUS P5K motherboard has onboard Jmicron chip. I could not get 10.1 to install. As it happened Ubuntu (7.0.4??) installed fine and I was content for a while. When 10.3 openSuSE came out I tr

[opensuse] Installation disk detection problems

2007-11-28 Thread Michael Fischer
New machine: Asus M2N-VM mobo (NVIDIA GeForce 6100 chipset) 2 WD800JD 80G SATA2 PIONEER DVD-RW SATA SuSE 10.1 (10.3 on the way, but I wanted to test the box) This thing has 4 SATA slots on the mobo. Near as I can figure it the order (when looking in the box at the board looks like 2 3 1

Re: [opensuse] Installation problem 10.3

2007-10-05 Thread Rajko M.
On Friday 05 October 2007 08:28:23 am Teruel de Campo MD wrote: > I download the dvd 86_64 iso and I tried to install it. The dvd loads > ok, I can change the resolution at boot to 1600 x 1200. Then stays for > 40 seconds and go to yast text mode with the following error: > "Could not find opensuse

Re: [opensuse] Installation problem 10.3

2007-10-05 Thread Robert Lewis
On 10/5/07, Teruel de Campo MD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I download the dvd 86_64 iso and I tried to install it. The dvd loads > ok, I can change the resolution at boot to 1600 x 1200. Then stays for > 40 seconds and go to yast text mode with the following error: > "Could not find opensuse repos

[opensuse] Installation problem 10.3

2007-10-05 Thread Teruel de Campo MD
I download the dvd 86_64 iso and I tried to install it. The dvd loads ok, I can change the resolution at boot to 1600 x 1200. Then stays for 40 seconds and go to yast text mode with the following error: "Could not find opensuse repository. Installing normal setup program". Have you seen this error.

[opensuse] Re: Question for openSUSE installation disk space. [SOLVED]

2007-07-09 Thread Giorgos
Should your Bios recognize your disk "somehow" but erratically (i.e. way to small), you can also use the "smaller disk" for /boot and make use of the remaining space from Linux. Surely, an additional PCI controller could be faster, at least sometimes ;-)), but it is not needed. regards Eberhard

[opensuse] Re: Question for openSUSE installation disk space. [SOLVED]

2007-07-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Eberhard Roloff wrote: > Giorgos wrote: >> Hi!!! :-) >> >> Finally, after A LOT of searching, I realized that it was a BIOS related >> error! >> My BIOS (6yo) can't properly recognize my IDE 230GB disk. Elite hasn't >> any BIOS updates and Ontrack utility (from WD site) for LBA support in >> older

[opensuse] Re: Question for openSUSE installation disk space. [SOLVED]

2007-07-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Giorgos wrote: > Hi!!! :-) > > Finally, after A LOT of searching, I realized that it was a BIOS related > error! > My BIOS (6yo) can't properly recognize my IDE 230GB disk. Elite hasn't > any BIOS updates and Ontrack utility (from WD site) for LBA support in > older BIOSes, worked for me ONLY for

Re: [opensuse] Question for openSUSE installation disk space. [SOLVED]

2007-07-09 Thread Giorgos
Hi!!! :-) Finally, after A LOT of searching, I realized that it was a BIOS related error! My BIOS (6yo) can't properly recognize my IDE 230GB disk. Elite hasn't any BIOS updates and Ontrack utility (from WD site) for LBA support in older BIOSes, worked for me ONLY for 1 OS installed at disk.

Re: [opensuse] Question for openSUSE installation disk space.

2007-07-06 Thread Giorgos
Hi!!! :-) I left the installer, to do its job and the setup has completed succesfully! ;-) Now, I have the following configuration: - /dev/hda2 fat321gb /dev/hda1 ntfs 95gb /dev/hda3 extented 90gb /dev/hda5 ntfs 71gb /dev/hda6 linux-swa

Re: [opensuse] Question for openSUSE installation disk space.

2007-07-05 Thread James Knott
Giorgos wrote: I'll gladly switch to Thunderbird, as soon as I can get rid of Windows (hopefully the next few days)! ;-) You don't have to wait that long. Thunderbird is available for Windows too. -- Use OpenOffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Question for openSUSE installation disk space.

2007-07-05 Thread Giorgos
Hi again!!! :-) THANKS for your help!!! :-) Stop using Outlook Express. That's your first fault. :P :-) I'll gladly switch to Thunderbird, as soon as I can get rid of Windows (hopefully the next few days)! ;-) First of all, you don't say what sort of partition structure you have. Ooops

Re: [opensuse] Question for openSUSE installation disk space.

2007-07-04 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:13, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > >> Not that you probably want to but the simplest way to install is to >> wipe the hard drive, reload whatever version of Windows you want to >> use >> > > Up to here, this certainly is a _simple_ solution

Re: [opensuse] Question for openSUSE installation disk space.

2007-07-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:13, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > Not that you probably want to but the simplest way to install is to > wipe the hard drive, reload whatever version of Windows you want to > use Up to here, this certainly is a _simple_ solution. Simple to describe, at least. > and get

Re: [opensuse] Question for openSUSE installation disk space.

2007-07-04 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
Not that you probably want to but the simplest way to install is to wipe the hard drive, reload whatever version of Windows you want to use and get it working properly [ using the whole disk ]. Pop in the Linux CD/DVD and let it do all the work for you. During the install process you can decide how

Re: [opensuse] Question for openSUSE installation disk space.

2007-07-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 06:09, Giorgos wrote: > Hi!!! :-) > > I hope not to disturb you with beginner's questions, but I'm just > making my first steps on Linux. > Sorry for my poor English too! :-) Not to worry. We were all beginners once. Many of us still are... &g

Re: [opensuse] Question for openSUSE installation disk space.

2007-07-04 Thread Kai Ponte
On Wed, July 4, 2007 6:09 am, Giorgos wrote: > Hi!!! :-) > > I hope not to disturb you with beginner's questions, but I'm just > making my > first steps on Linux. > Sorry for my poor English too! :-) > > I downloaded the openSUSE installation DVD, as well the 2 ad

[opensuse] Question for openSUSE installation disk space.

2007-07-04 Thread Giorgos
Hi!!! :-) I hope not to disturb you with beginner's questions, but I'm just making my first steps on Linux. Sorry for my poor English too! :-) I downloaded the openSUSE installation DVD, as well the 2 addittional CDs. I burn them and I made room at my disk with GParted. Now I

Re: [opensuse] installation problem

2007-06-09 Thread Dennis J. Tuchler
Darryl Gregorash wrote: On 2007-06-09 11:08, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: Somehow, I am without an "installation source" from which to get updates. So says my updater. Is there a list of installation sources I can use? I suppose I just lift one from that list and add it to the "update sources" list

Re: [opensuse] installation source

2007-06-09 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 12:08 -0500, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: > Somehow, I am without an "installation source" from which to get > updates. So says my updater. Is there a list of installation sources I > can use? I suppose I just lift one from that list and add it to the > "update sources" list. Ri

Re: [opensuse] installation source

2007-06-09 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 12:08 -0500, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: > Somehow, I am without an "installation source" from which to get > updates. So says my updater. Is there a list of installation sources I > can use? I suppose I just lift one from that list and add it to the > "update sources" list. Ri

Re: [opensuse] installation source

2007-06-09 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-06-09 11:08, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: > Somehow, I am without an "installation source" from which to get > updates. So says my updater. Is there a list of installation sources I > can use? I suppose I just lift one from that list and add it to the > "update sources" list. Right? > > For v

[opensuse] installation source

2007-06-09 Thread Dennis J. Tuchler
Somehow, I am without an "installation source" from which to get updates. So says my updater. Is there a list of installation sources I can use? I suppose I just lift one from that list and add it to the "update sources" list. Right? -- Best regards, Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missour

Re: [opensuse] installation

2007-05-18 Thread M Harris
On Friday 18 May 2007 10:41, M Harris wrote: > > boots from harddisk, it drops to a shell and doesnt install remaining cds > > What message(s) do you see in the shell? Hold down the alt key, and then press the F10 key... what messages do you see? -- Kind regards, M Harris

Re: [opensuse] installation

2007-05-18 Thread M Harris
On Friday 18 May 2007 02:29, azeem ahmad wrote: > when installation from > the first CD completes, it asks for reboot, and after reboot when system > boots from harddisk, it drops to a shell and doesnt install remaining cds What message(s) do you see in the shell? How long have you

[opensuse] installation

2007-05-18 Thread azeem ahmad
hi list i am a newbie installing SUSE 10 for the first time. when installation from the first CD completes, it asks for reboot, and after reboot when system boots from harddisk, it drops to a shell and doesnt install remaining cds how can i resolve this problem Regards Azeem

Re: [opensuse] installation of Suse10.2 on a laptop Acer Ferrari

2007-05-03 Thread Michel Maria-Sube
Thank you for your answer but I'm really surprised about it, concerning bluetooth, if I'm doing hciconfig hci0 piscan I've in the syslog following message: hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout and on the console: Can't set mode on hci0: Connection timed out (110) Nevertheless, recessed butt

Re: [opensuse] installation of Suse10.2 on a laptop Acer Ferrari

2007-05-02 Thread J. Scott Thayer M.D.
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 16:47, Michel Maria-Sube wrote: > Hello, > > I've recently installed a downloaded version of > Suse10.2 on a laptop Acer serie "Ferrari 4000" > (4005WLMi); hardware configuration and results are as > follows: > - The hardware is provided with an AMD Thurion 64 > mobile tech

[opensuse] installation of Suse10.2 on a laptop Acer Ferrari

2007-05-02 Thread Michel Maria-Sube
Hello, I've recently installed a downloaded version of Suse10.2 on a laptop Acer serie "Ferrari 4000" (4005WLMi); hardware configuration and results are as follows: - The hardware is provided with an AMD Thurion 64 mobile tech on an 86x64 architecture - there is 2Go RAM - graphical card is an ATI

Re: [opensuse] Installation problems (OpenSUSE10.2) - formatting hangs

2007-04-20 Thread G . R . Tabor
> On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 10:53 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> I have a problem installing OpenSUSE10.2 on a pc with a SCSI system >> disk. >> I was running SuSE 9.3 (professional edition, bought), but was having >> problems doing an upgrade, so I decided to do a clean install of

Re: [opensuse] Installation problems (OpenSUSE10.2) - formatting hangs

2007-04-19 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 10:53 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear All, > > I have a problem installing OpenSUSE10.2 on a pc with a SCSI system disk. > I was running SuSE 9.3 (professional edition, bought), but was having > problems doing an upgrade, so I decided to do a clean install of the new >

[opensuse] Installation problems (OpenSUSE10.2) - formatting hangs

2007-04-19 Thread G . R . Tabor
Dear All, I have a problem installing OpenSUSE10.2 on a pc with a SCSI system disk. I was running SuSE 9.3 (professional edition, bought), but was having problems doing an upgrade, so I decided to do a clean install of the new OS. I went through the initialisation for the installation, sorted out

[opensuse] Installation problem with Linux Format dvd version 10.2

2007-03-15 Thread scsijon
Hopefully someone will put me straight from a start. Have:Dell Inspiron 8000 was: dual 7.2 / windows me Had no problem installing and was working ok. Decided to delete contents of 7.2 as the psrtitions were no longer in use and install 10.2 from Feb 2007 Linux Format DVD (LXFDVD89) Gets to t

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-07 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 08:20 -0500, James Knott wrote: > > You can't run a program from the directory it's in. That seems to > be a UNIX > > no-no. Back up one directory, and run the command > > with /directory/install...etc. I know it's goofy, but that's > UNIX--and > > Linux. In this case,

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-07 Thread James Knott
Doug McGarrett wrote: I wanted to try out Thunderbird but couldn't get it to install. What is wrong? Program not running? Shell reports that can't find program? -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal You can't run a program from the directory it's in. That seems to be a

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-05 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 04 February 2007 21:27, Charles R. Buchanan wrote: > Actually I decided to find out how to do that after I sent the message. > (I'm not coming to tell you I was holding the ctrl key while using the > scroll wheel)  :-D Never too old to learn something :-) Thanks. -- Regards, Rajko. htt

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread Charles R. Buchanan
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 21:02:05 -0600, "Rajko M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took time to say the following: (^_^)On Sunday 04 February 2007 20:53, Anders Johansson wrote: (^_^)> > I did realize yesterday/last night that there was a "." in (^_^)> > front of one of the commands I was trying to run. The type

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread Charles R. Buchanan
On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:59:34 -0800, J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took time to say the following: (^_^) (^_^) (^_^)charles buchanan wrote: (^_^) (^_^)> Not being a fan of cli's, guess I'd better start if I need to install programs (^_^)> huh? I did realize yesterday/last night that there was a "

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 04 February 2007 20:53, Anders Johansson wrote: > > I did realize yesterday/last night that there was a "." in > > front of one of the commands I was trying to run. The type on some of > > these (web) pages are really small and it's easy to miss that period. > > Yep. That's why it's bette

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread J Sloan
charles buchanan wrote: > Not being a fan of cli's, guess I'd better start if I need to install > programs > huh? I did realize yesterday/last night that there was a "." in front of one > of the commands I was trying to run. The type on some of these (web) pages > are really small and it's e

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread Anders Johansson
On Monday 05 February 2007 03:49, charles buchanan wrote: > Not being a fan of cli's, guess I'd better start if I need to install > programs huh? You don't have to if you don't want to. The GUI is way is right-click on the program and set the execute permission click on it > I did realize yester

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread charles buchanan
On Sunday 04 February 2007 18:04, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Monday 05 February 2007 02:59, Rajko M. wrote: > > Anders example: > > bash scriptname.sh > > is in openSUSE equivalent to > > sh scriptname.sh > > in instructions on nVidia web site as sh is only symlink to bash. > > No, not exactl

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 04 February 2007 20:04, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Monday 05 February 2007 02:59, Rajko M. wrote: > > Anders example: > > bash scriptname.sh > > is in openSUSE equivalent to > > sh scriptname.sh > > in instructions on nVidia web site as sh is only symlink to bash. > > No, not exactl

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread Anders Johansson
On Monday 05 February 2007 02:59, Rajko M. wrote: > Anders example: > bash scriptname.sh > is in openSUSE equivalent to > sh scriptname.sh > in instructions on nVidia web site as sh is only symlink to bash. No, not exactly. When bash is called as "sh", it tries as far as possible to behave li

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 04 February 2007 17:46, Charles R. Buchanan wrote: ... > I downloaded a script yesterday. It was a script to check settings or > something or other for the ati card that I have installed. Tried to run > the script and even that didn't work. So I should have ran "chmod 777 > (or 555) as K

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread Anders Johansson
On Monday 05 February 2007 00:46, Charles R. Buchanan wrote: > I downloaded a script yesterday. It was a script to check settings or > something or other for the ati card that I have installed. Tried to run > the script and even that didn't work. So I should have ran "chmod 777 > (or 555) as Ken h

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread Anders Johansson
On Monday 05 February 2007 00:38, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > Actually 555 would do. the modes are rwx where r=4, w=2 and x=1. Add > them together for the total. The minimum needed to run a file (script) > is r_x=5, you need the ability to Read the file and eXecute it. 500 would do, if you are the

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread J Sloan
Kenneth Schneider wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 15:29 -0800, J Sloan wrote: >> Doug McGarrett wrote: >>> On Sunday 04 February 2007 15:24, Rajko M. wrote: On Sunday 04 February 2007 13:04, charles buchanan wrote: ... >>> You can't run a program from the directory it's in. That se

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread Charles R. Buchanan
On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:29:11 -0800, J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took time to say the following: (^_^) (^_^) (^_^)Doug McGarrett wrote: (^_^)> On Sunday 04 February 2007 15:24, Rajko M. wrote: (^_^)>> On Sunday 04 February 2007 13:04, charles buchanan wrote: (^_^)>> ... (^_^)>> (^_^)> if the

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 15:29 -0800, J Sloan wrote: > > Doug McGarrett wrote: > > On Sunday 04 February 2007 15:24, Rajko M. wrote: > >> On Sunday 04 February 2007 13:04, charles buchanan wrote: > >> ... > >> > > > > You can't run a program from the directory it's in. That seems to be a > > UNIX

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread J Sloan
Doug McGarrett wrote: > On Sunday 04 February 2007 15:24, Rajko M. wrote: >> On Sunday 04 February 2007 13:04, charles buchanan wrote: >> ... >> > if the program is "install-realplayer10gold.bin" for instance, > The file is in /home/(username), I'm in the directory > /home/(username)

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 18:15 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: > On Sunday 04 February 2007 15:24, Rajko M. wrote: > > On Sunday 04 February 2007 13:04, charles buchanan wrote: > > ... > > > > > > > if the program is "install-realplayer10gold.bin" for instance, > > > > > The file is in /home/(username),

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Sunday 04 February 2007 15:24, Rajko M. wrote: > On Sunday 04 February 2007 13:04, charles buchanan wrote: > ... > > > > > if the program is  "install-realplayer10gold.bin" for instance, > > > > The file is in /home/(username), I'm in the directory > > > > /home/(username), do a dir and the file

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread Charles R. Buchanan
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 14:24:58 -0600, "Rajko M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took time to say the following: (^_^)On Sunday 04 February 2007 13:04, charles buchanan wrote: (^_^)... (^_^)> > > if the program is  "install-realplayer10gold.bin" for instance, (^_^)> > > The file is in /home/(username), I'm in

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-04 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 04 February 2007 13:04, charles buchanan wrote: ... > > > if the program is  "install-realplayer10gold.bin" for instance, > > > The file is in /home/(username), I'm in the directory /home/(username), > > > do a dir and the file is there, I issue the command(s) that is/are > > > listed on

Re: [opensuse] Installation source

2006-11-30 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Druid wrote: > ah, you havent mentioned kde > > most of the new packages are in build service > > http://repos.opensuse.org/KDE:/ > http://repos.opensuse.org/KDE:/KDE3/ > http://repos.opensuse.org/KDE:/Backports/ > > btw, an old rule of the computer people: dont fix it if its not broken > > > On 11

Re: [opensuse] Installation source

2006-11-30 Thread Druid
ah, you havent mentioned kde most of the new packages are in build service http://repos.opensuse.org/KDE:/ http://repos.opensuse.org/KDE:/KDE3/ http://repos.opensuse.org/KDE:/Backports/ btw, an old rule of the computer people: dont fix it if its not broken On 11/30/06, Erik Jakobsen <[EMAIL P

Re: [opensuse] Installation source

2006-11-30 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Druid wrote: > http://en.opensuse.org/Mirrors_Released_Version > > http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories > > You may add a source for the updates (if you dont use suseregister), > which is in the old style mirrors (pre 10.0), and Im not aware of any > list of those mirrors...

Re: [opensuse] Installation source

2006-11-30 Thread Druid
http://en.opensuse.org/Mirrors_Released_Version http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories You may add a source for the updates (if you dont use suseregister), which is in the old style mirrors (pre 10.0), and Im not aware of any list of those mirrors... But here is one on beln

[opensuse] Installation source

2006-11-30 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Hi. I have installed the SUSE - Linux - 10.1 Remastered version here. Where can I find the most new places for updating my system with Yast Installation Source ? TIA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Installation problems,10.1 X86_64

2006-06-12 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 01:37 -0500, Rajko M wrote: > Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: > > > > This list is not appropriate for installation problems. Please use > > suse-linux-e@suse.com > > > > Silviu, > > Thanks for vote to opensuse-project :-) > > BTW, suse-linux-e with >100 messages daily is not

Re: [opensuse] Installation problems,10.1 X86_64

2006-06-11 Thread Rajko M
Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: This list is not appropriate for installation problems. Please use suse-linux-e@suse.com Silviu, Thanks for vote to opensuse-project :-) BTW, suse-linux-e with >100 messages daily is not good place for installation problems, as they affect mostly beginners that

Re: [opensuse] Installation problems,10.1 X86_64

2006-06-11 Thread Silviu Marin-Caea
On Monday 12 June 2006 02:32, jim tate wrote: > Suse-10.1 x86_64 , AMD Athlon-X2, ECS Elitegroup Nforce4-A939 motherboard. This list is not appropriate for installation problems. Please use suse-linux-e@suse.com - To unsubscri

Re: [opensuse] Installation problems,10.1 X86_64

2006-06-11 Thread BandiPat
On Sunday 11 June 2006 21:12, jim tate wrote: [...] > Suse will create the partitions if none are on harddrive during > installation. > > Jim > > - Sure, SuSE will do that, but, a big BUT, you can override that with Custom Expert

Re: [opensuse] Installation problems,10.1 X86_64

2006-06-11 Thread Rajko M
jim tate wrote: BandiPat wrote: On Sunday 11 June 2006 19:32, jim tate wrote: Suse-10.1 x86_64 , AMD Athlon-X2, ECS Elitegroup Nforce4-A939 motherboard. The five cd's passed the md5sum and media test. Run normal install or shutdown Apci and install still freezes while installing packages, a

Re: [opensuse] Installation problems,10.1 X86_64

2006-06-11 Thread Carl Hartung
On Sunday 11 June 2006 21:11, J Sloan wrote: > BTW, whoever told you to use cylinders as the unit of partition size was > playing a mean trick on you. A "very, very mean trick" is more like it. ;-) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAI

Re: [opensuse] Installation problems,10.1 X86_64

2006-06-11 Thread Carl Hartung
On Sunday 11 June 2006 20:55, BandiPat wrote: > And you don't have to recreate them again later??? Why delete them with > one Linux, just to recreate them with another? I'm confused. I agree with Lee. Seems like you're creating more work for yourself, Jim. I haven't seen one important issue add

Re: [opensuse] Installation problems,10.1 X86_64

2006-06-11 Thread jim tate
BandiPat wrote: On Sunday 11 June 2006 20:42, jim tate wrote: [...] When you get to the area of setting partitions, etc., click on the title Partitions where you can continue to Expert/Custom partitioning. - To unsubscribe

Re: [opensuse] Installation problems,10.1 X86_64

2006-06-11 Thread J Sloan
jim tate wrote: > Yes, I have been there,but when you delete old partitions you have to > enter new ones before you can leave the > partitioning and save. Setting up new partitions using cyclinders x 512 > is to time consuming, it's easier to use > Knoppix and fdisk to delete partitions. How co

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