Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-02 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 1 Jun 2006 at 16:18, jdd wrote: Lenz Grimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, jdd wrote: if you can garanty that one hard drive failure won't make me lose all my data, I'ok (I have several HD, of course, each with part of my system) In

Re: [opensuse-factory] Update stack test build

2006-06-02 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 1 Jun 2006 at 16:40, Andreas Hanke wrote: Hi, I'd like to know if / propose that the following bugs are candidates for inclusion in the package management update: - Option to disable missing signature complaints is not persistent https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=175845

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-02 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 1 Jun 2006 at 17:45, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: jdd wrote: given modern disks are large, is it possible to have LVM strictly assigned at one disk, or separate LVM to each disk? Of course. Actually you can have LVM per partition, right? [...] Ulrich

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-02 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 1 Jun 2006 at 17:51, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Ulrich Windl wrote: On 1 Jun 2006 at 15:08, Lenz Grimmer wrote: [...]Logical Volumes[...] I'd like to propose that SUSE Linux considers switching to this scheme for new installations by default, too - I now filed this as an

Re: [opensuse-factory] Update stack test build

2006-06-02 Thread Stanislav Visnovsky
Dňa Pi 2. Jún 2006 08:37 Ulrich Windl napísal: On 1 Jun 2006 at 16:40, Andreas Hanke wrote: [snip] Probably rather cosmetic, but ugly. No fix available so far according to Bugzilla, and not that important. But maybe later? - Taboo flag is not persistent in the package manager

[opensuse-factory] Updated Software Management Test Repository

2006-06-02 Thread Andreas Jaeger
We're currently pushing out an update to the package/patch management stack and I'm asking for additional testing. The previous repository did not show any new bugs but we fixed a couple of more bugs and made this time a repository with a real patch in it for testing. Please read the text below

Re: [opensuse-factory] Updated Software Management Test Repository

2006-06-02 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Andreas! Andreas Jaeger wrote: We're currently pushing out an update to the package/patch management stack and I'm asking for additional testing. Excellent, looks like this is quite needed ;) The previous repository did not show any new bugs

Re: [opensuse-factory] Updated Software Management Test Repository

2006-06-02 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-20060601-155143 2 | Active | ZYPP | SUSE-Linux-10.1-Updates | http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/update/10.1/ 3 | Active | ZYPP | 20060602-013154 | http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/10.1/ 4 | Active | ZYPP | 20060602-014612 | http://software.opensuse.org/download/KDE:/KDE3/SUSE_Linux_10.1

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-02 Thread jdd
Ulrich Windl wrote: On 1 Jun 2006 at 16:53, jdd wrote: sharing a partition between several disks don't seems so nice to me (when not strictly necessary), but when a drive fails, anyway all it's content is lost so... we could have to good and not the bad? Our last database server had 46

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-02 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, jdd wrote: can you expand that? I don't understand. do you mean that one can make partitions on a drive then set lvm to be used only on this partition? Yes, sure. On my Laptop, I have one big partition, labelled as LVM. Inside of this

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-02 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 2 Jun 2006 at 12:47, jdd wrote: Ulrich Windl wrote: On 1 Jun 2006 at 17:45, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: jdd wrote: given modern disks are large, is it possible to have LVM strictly assigned at one disk, or separate LVM to each disk? Of course. Actually you can have

Re: [opensuse-factory] Updated Software Management Test Repository

2006-06-02 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Lenz Grimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Andreas Jaeger wrote: * You can now remove the software catalog you added in the first step. Use yast2 inst_source and delete the catalog. Here a popup window appeared, stating: Error: Cannot stop '/etc/init.d/novell-zmd' service. I

Re: [opensuse-factory] Update stack test build

2006-06-02 Thread Andreas Hanke
Hi, Ulrich Windl schrieb: I think that's basically a dangerous option (Think of your webbrowser having a global option trust expired and invalid certificates for secure connections: You would want it per certificate, not globally) But in any case there's a problem there, an option in the UI

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-02 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, houghi wrote: I just looked at what is now there and to make it clear that it was not LVM. Could be anything, I guess. FAT32? :-) Almost - FAT32 might be a bit too low-end for that. But it's pretty common to use ext2 for /boot - you don't

[opensuse-factory] High Utilization with zen components

2006-06-02 Thread Chad Groneman
Hello everyone, This has probably been addressed somewhere in a thread somewhere, but I can't see it. Anyway, I've noticed that whenever I do anything with the new software management tools (ZEN tools), my system's fans crank up. I check top and see that my utilization is in the high 90's or

Re: [opensuse-factory] High Utilization with zen components

2006-06-02 Thread Martin Schlander
Fredag 02 juni 2006 18:24 skrev Chad Groneman: I don't know if it's a bug or not, but it bothers me a great deal. I don't like my system to have to crank up the fans to do something as simple as check to see if there are updates available, or install an RPM. It's well known that the new

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-02 Thread houghi
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 06:05:41PM +0200, Lenz Grimmer wrote: Snip AOL ;-) Do the new installation and still have what you wanted to keep. Am I correct in this idea? Yes, that's how it works. LVM scans the disk for existing volumes and the YaST2 LVM frontend lists these similar to already

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-02 Thread houghi
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 08:14:44PM +0200, jdd wrote: so plain ext2 is definitively the best choice. As said, that is trivial at this point what it is. It's also a good idea to keep a separate /boot partition, just in case some old hardaware with faulty BIOS (may be there are still some

Re: [opensuse-factory] High Utilization with zen components

2006-06-02 Thread Manfred Tremmel
Am Freitag, 2. Juni 2006 18:24 schrieb Chad Groneman: This has probably been addressed somewhere in a thread somewhere, but I can't see it. Anyway, I've noticed that whenever I do anything with the new software management tools (ZEN tools), my system's fans crank up. I check top and see

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-02 Thread Richard Bos
Op vrijdag 2 juni 2006 19:06, schreef houghi: Yes, that's how it works. LVM scans the disk for existing volumes and the YaST2 LVM frontend lists these similar to already existing partitions. You can assign these to new mount points without formatting. One last question. So the only risk is

Re: [opensuse-factory] Updated Software Management Test Repository

2006-06-02 Thread Andreas Hanke
Hi, Andreas Jaeger schrieb: IMPORTANT: Please report *all* bugs in bugzilla.novell.com and *always* CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harald Müller-Ney) on the bugreport and mention that you're using AJ's updated package stack from 2006-06-02. Knowing this, it should probably go directly into Bugzilla,

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-02 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Hi Lenz, So yes, the partitioner would need to create two additional regular partitions: - a small one (~100MB is more than sufficient) for /boot Arrg, I was very happy to have seen that gone for good. SUSE doesn't even boot any more on boxes with a BIOS too old to need separate /boot.

[opensuse-factory] SUSE 10.1 sources DVD

2006-06-02 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Will there be a DVD again with the sources corresponding to the packages in the boxed set (like there was for 10.0)? Thanks, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.

Re: [opensuse-factory] SUSE 10.1 sources DVD

2006-06-02 Thread Christoph Thiel
On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Will there be a DVD again with the sources corresponding to the packages in the boxed set (like there was for 10.0)? We have two source DVDs lying around -- but as of now they didn't get pushed out to the mirrors. And I'd actually prefer to just

Re: [opensuse-factory] SUSE 10.1 sources DVD

2006-06-02 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Will there be a DVD again with the sources corresponding to the packages in the boxed set (like there was for 10.0)? No, not in the box. Maybe they will burn and send you one upon personal request. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg ([EMAIL

Re: [opensuse-factory] SUSE 10.1 sources DVD

2006-06-02 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
We have two source DVDs lying around -- but as of now they didn't get pushed out to the mirrors. And I'd actually prefer to just offer .jigdo files for those, as the .src.rpms are in the ftp anyway. From a mirroring point of view, some jiggledy-scripty which downloads the files and