Re: [opensuse-factory] zen-updater

2006-03-18 Thread Mauricio Teixeira (netmask)
Em Sex, 2006-03-17 às 21:31 +0100, Tobias Burnus escreveu: > Next question: If one calls rug update, does it make sense that rug > first downloads all files and then installs them? I don't see much sense in installing each package right after the file has been downloaded. Consider (big fake ex

Re: [opensuse-factory] beta8 kernel unstable?

2006-03-18 Thread Andreas Klein
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > Eberhard Moenkeberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Andreas Klein wrote: > > > > > anyone seeing instabilities with the beta8 kernel? > > > > I have two machine not eve

Re: [opensuse-factory] Default Root Partition Size

2006-03-18 Thread Boyd Lynn Gerber
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, houghi wrote: > On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 04:18:12PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > And most machine bought today with a dual-layer burner built in will tend > > to > > have >150GB hard disks - laptops being an exception, the DL burnered laptop > > has only 80GB of disk space.

Re: [opensuse-factory] beta8 kernel unstable?

2006-03-18 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Eberhard Moenkeberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Andreas Klein wrote: anyone seeing instabilities with the beta8 kernel? I have two machine not even responding to ping. One is a dual opteron, the other one is a virtual machin

Re: [opensuse-factory] Default Root Partition Size

2006-03-18 Thread David Wright
Am Samstag, 18. März 2006 16:50 schrieb houghi: > On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 04:18:12PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > > I'm logging into the Wiki as I write this, I'll start on writing a page > > for this... (I did a search and didn't find an existing one) > > > > I propose something like: > > > >

Re: [opensuse-factory] beta8 kernel unstable?

2006-03-18 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Eberhard Moenkeberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Andreas Klein wrote: > >> anyone seeing instabilities with the beta8 kernel? >> I have two machine not even responding to ping. >> One is a dual opteron, the other one is a virtual machine in vmware. >> Both run 24x7 wi

Re: [opensuse-factory] Default Root Partition Size

2006-03-18 Thread houghi
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 04:18:12PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > And most machine bought today with a dual-layer burner built in will tend to > have >150GB hard disks - laptops being an exception, the DL burnered laptop > has only 80GB of disk space... Not all systems that will run SUSE are the m

Re: [opensuse-factory] Default Root Partition Size

2006-03-18 Thread houghi
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 04:19:47PM +0100, Frank-Michael Fischer wrote: > It doesn't help that YOU can work with a 10GB "/" partition, not even > that I can work with 8GB. My suggestion: whenever hwinfo says there is a > DVD burner in the system the default suggestion should be a separate > 10GB "/t

Re: [opensuse-factory] Default Root Partition Size

2006-03-18 Thread houghi
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 04:09:47PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > The proposed max of 20GB might help > some people with larger drives and larger needs, and has been said, it is > dynamic, so it won't grab 20GB on a 30GB driver, and it is just a suggestion. Again I understand that it is dynamic. Y

Re: [opensuse-factory] Default Root Partition Size

2006-03-18 Thread Frank-Michael Fischer
houghi wrote: > On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 03:49:58PM +0100, Frank-Michael Fischer wrote: > >> Let's assume users have got a DVD burning device. Then the default setup >> of a SUSE 10.1 installation puts intermediate burning files into /tmp. >> > > I have a DVD burner, 10GB space and no proble

Re: [opensuse-factory] Default Root Partition Size

2006-03-18 Thread David Wright
Am Samstag, 18. März 2006 16:06 schrieb houghi: > On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 03:49:58PM +0100, Frank-Michael Fischer wrote: > > Let's assume users have got a DVD burning device. Then the default setup > > of a SUSE 10.1 installation puts intermediate burning files into /tmp. > > I have a DVD burner, 1

Re: [opensuse-factory] Default Root Partition Size

2006-03-18 Thread David Wright
Am Samstag, 18. März 2006 15:30 schrieb houghi: > On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 09:57:39AM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > With a fairly typical developer install, with Gnome and KDE loaded on my > > laptop, that crashed through the 10GB barrier that YaST suggests at > > install time. If I'd thought that

Re: [opensuse-factory] Default Root Partition Size

2006-03-18 Thread houghi
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 03:49:58PM +0100, Frank-Michael Fischer wrote: > Let's assume users have got a DVD burning device. Then the default setup > of a SUSE 10.1 installation puts intermediate burning files into /tmp. I have a DVD burner, 10GB space and no problems. > Which is normally a directo

Re: [opensuse-factory] Default Root Partition Size

2006-03-18 Thread Frank-Michael Fischer
David Wright wrote: > Just a word of warning regarding the new default partition sizes suggested by > YaST. I have a 10GB root partition on my laptop and just went to install IBM > Rational Software Architect. The install files take up around 2.5GB of space > and the installed program itself tak

Re: [opensuse-factory] Default Root Partition Size

2006-03-18 Thread houghi
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 09:57:39AM +0100, David Wright wrote: > With a fairly typical developer install, with Gnome and KDE loaded on my > laptop, that crashed through the 10GB barrier that YaST suggests at install > time. If I'd thought that I might need such a big app and had made allowances >

Re: [opensuse-factory] beta8 kernel unstable?

2006-03-18 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Andreas Klein wrote: anyone seeing instabilities with the beta8 kernel? I have two machine not even responding to ping. One is a dual opteron, the other one is a virtual machine in vmware. Both run 24x7 with all previous betas without crashing. I see spontaneous reboo

[opensuse-factory] beta8 kernel unstable?

2006-03-18 Thread Andreas Klein
Hello, anyone seeing instabilities with the beta8 kernel? I have two machine not even responding to ping. One is a dual opteron, the other one is a virtual machine in vmware. Both run 24x7 with all previous betas without crashing. Bye, -- Andreas Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse-factory] Factory Media Exception Error

2006-03-18 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Martin Schlander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 18 March 2006 10:45, Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> with Beta 8, I can't add the factory repository. I've tried rug and YaST >> >> This is not yet a known bug - file it with component "libzypp", >> >> Andreas > > I've added Factory (mirrors.ker

Re: [opensuse-factory] Factory Media Exception Error

2006-03-18 Thread David Wright
Am Samstag, 18. März 2006 11:15 schrieb Martin Schlander: > On Saturday 18 March 2006 10:45, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > with Beta 8, I can't add the factory repository. I've tried rug and YaST > > > > This is not yet a known bug - file it with component "libzypp", > > > > Andreas > > I've added Fact

Re: [opensuse-factory] Factory Media Exception Error

2006-03-18 Thread David Wright
Am Samstag, 18. März 2006 10:45 schrieb Andreas Jaeger: > David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > With Beta 6 I could see the Factory repository, even if I couldn't > > download much (about every third package seemed to be missing when I went > > to do updates :-( ), but with Beta 8, I can't a

Re: [opensuse-factory] Factory Media Exception Error

2006-03-18 Thread Martin Schlander
On Saturday 18 March 2006 10:45, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > with Beta 8, I can't add the factory repository. I've tried rug and YaST > > This is not yet a known bug - file it with component "libzypp", > > Andreas I've added Factory (mirrors.kernel.org) to yast installation sources seemed to work fi

Re: [opensuse-factory] Factory Media Exception Error

2006-03-18 Thread Andreas Jaeger
David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With Beta 6 I could see the Factory repository, even if I couldn't download > much (about every third package seemed to be missing when I went to do > updates :-( ), but with Beta 8, I can't add the factory repository. > > I've tried rug and YaST, but w

Re: [opensuse-factory] zen-updater

2006-03-18 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Tobias Burnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > Tobias Burnus schrieb: >>> On Friday 17 March 2006 18:14, Andreas Jaeger wrote: >>> So, with zen-updater (which should be configured out of the box correctly - and that's a bug already), go to configure and add e.g. factory

[opensuse-factory] Factory Media Exception Error

2006-03-18 Thread David Wright
With Beta 6 I could see the Factory repository, even if I couldn't download much (about every third package seemed to be missing when I went to do updates :-( ), but with Beta 8, I can't add the factory repository. I've tried rug and YaST, but with opensuse.org, gwdg.de and uni-heidelberg.de I

Re: [opensuse-factory] Default Root Partition Size

2006-03-18 Thread David Wright
Am Freitag, 17. März 2006 23:24 schrieb Hans Witvliet: > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 13:09 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Just a word of warning regarding the new default partition sizes > > > suggested by YaST. I have a 10GB root partition on my laptop an

Re: [opensuse-factory] installation stops during hardware detection

2006-03-18 Thread Frank-Michael Fischer
Frank-Michael Fischer wrote: > Anyone any idea how to get around bug 158958? > > Thanks! > > FMF > Found my workaround: since Beta 8 (for the first time ever) I need "noapic" both for installation and the rescue system. The installed system works fine without this parameter. FMF --