Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

2007-05-21 Thread jdd
Peter Czanik wrote: Hello, I work a lot with machines with limited amount of RAM, like: I will add to this. I don't remember if the yast install console (there is one available, don't remember the F-number) allow partitioning, but the rescue mode allows it. however, with 10.2, when you

Re: [opensuse-factory] How can we support better Virtualization in openSUSE ?

2007-05-21 Thread Philipp Thomas
On Mon, 21 May 2007 01:26:22 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote: I guessed that immediately I saw the no supported hardware found in dmesg. I thought so, since you said that you got yourself new hardware :) I just added it as info for others. Philipp

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

2007-05-21 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Mon 21 May 2007 18:23:42 NZST +1200, Peter Czanik wrote: Installation on these machines is getting more and more difficult due to RAM requirements of the installer (especially the package manager). Right now the only way to install openSUSE on such a machine is to enable a swap partition

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

2007-05-21 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdd schreef: Peter Czanik wrote: Hello, I work a lot with machines with limited amount of RAM, like: I will add to this. I don't remember if the yast install console (there is one available, don't remember the F-number) allow partitioning,

[opensuse-factory] SaX2 source

2007-05-21 Thread Rafał Miłecki
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[opensuse-factory] Beagle and beagle-helper real obstacles when making back-ups.

2007-05-21 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the subject. They stop the process of copying or comparing..very annoying. - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-03-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systeem:

Re: [opensuse-factory] Beagle and beagle-helper real obstacles when making back-ups.

2007-05-21 Thread Alberto Passalacqua
Not a solution for newbies, but you can shut beagle down temporarily with: beagle-shutdown Ciao, A. Il giorno lun, 21/05/2007 alle 14.18 +0200, M9. ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the subject. They stop the process of copying or comparing..very annoying. -

Re: [opensuse-factory] Beagle and beagle-helper real obstacles when making back-ups.

2007-05-21 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alberto Passalacqua schreef: Not a solution for newbies, but you can shut beagle down temporarily with: beagle-shutdown Might be not so bad, when on, it takes aaages to synchronize. Ciao, A. Il giorno lun,

Re: [opensuse-factory] Beagle and beagle-helper real obstacles when making back-ups.

2007-05-21 Thread Alberto Passalacqua
Il giorno lun, 21/05/2007 alle 14.50 +0200, M9. ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alberto Passalacqua schreef: Not a solution for newbies, but you can shut beagle down temporarily with: beagle-shutdown Might be not so bad, when on, it takes

Re: [opensuse-factory] Beagle and beagle-helper real obstacles when making back-ups.

2007-05-21 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alberto Passalacqua schreef: Il giorno lun, 21/05/2007 alle 14.50 +0200, M9. ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alberto Passalacqua schreef: Not a solution for newbies, but you can shut beagle down temporarily with:

Re: [opensuse-factory] SaX2 source

2007-05-21 Thread Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett
On Monday 21 May 2007 13:57:34 Rafał Miłecki wrote: Hello, Where may I find sources of SaX2? http://www.google.com/search?q=sax2+x11 first and second result: http://sax.berlios.de/ http://developer.berlios.de/projects/sax/ -- Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett Novell :: SUSE RD, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409

Re: [opensuse-factory] Beagle and beagle-helper real obstacles when making back-ups.

2007-05-21 Thread Alberto Passalacqua
Is it cmd? Yes, it's a command line tool. Is it standard in openSUSE? Yes, it's installed by default. Is there a manual? You can just type man manual in a terminal and read there, but this link provides you some useful hint to do backups:

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

2007-05-21 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Mon 21 May 2007 18:23:42 NZST +1200, Peter Czanik wrote: Installation on these machines is getting more and more difficult due to RAM requirements of the installer (especially the package manager). Right now the only way to install openSUSE

Re: [opensuse-factory] Beagle and beagle-helper real obstacles when making back-ups.

2007-05-21 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alberto Passalacqua schreef: Is it cmd? Yes, it's a command line tool. Is it standard in openSUSE? Yes, it's installed by default. Is there a manual? You can just type man manual in a terminal and read there, but this link provides

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

2007-05-21 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steffen Winterfeldt schreef: That sounds rather like bug. Please consider a bugreport. Steffen Well, i never encountered this before, but i never installed 10.2 on 'small' machines before... 10.0 did install without running out of

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

2007-05-21 Thread Alexey Eremenko
The problem is known. See: Instlux - setup openSUSE Linux from Windows: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=276450 -- -Alexey Eremenko Technologov - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

[opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...

2007-05-21 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, We see that the suggestion to create a serious partitioner, like PQ Partition Magic was not so bad at all. I constantly run into problems, because it is much too difficult too change the sizes of existing partitions. Now, one has too back-up

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

2007-05-21 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Peter Czanik wrote: I work a lot with machines with limited amount of RAM, like: http://www.genesippc.com/openclient.php , but also many old PC's, which are still suitable for running xfce, Opera, vnc and rdesktop. Installation on these machines is getting more and more

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

2007-05-21 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 21 May 2007 08:37, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: ... Really cool users can show their advancedness by booting with (for example): insmod=vfat exec=mount /dev/sda1 /mnt ; dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/foo bs=1G count=1 ; mkswap /mnt/foo ; swapon /mnt/foo ; /usr/local/bin/umount -l /mnt

Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...

2007-05-21 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Mon, 21 May 2007, M9. wrote: We see that the suggestion to create a serious partitioner, like PQ Partition Magic was not so bad at all. I constantly run into problems, because it is much too difficult too change the sizes of existing partitions. Now, one has too back-up his/her home,

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

2007-05-21 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Monday 21 May 2007 08:37, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: ... Really cool users can show their advancedness by booting with (for example): insmod=vfat exec=mount /dev/sda1 /mnt ; dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/foo bs=1G count=1 ; mkswap /mnt/foo

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

2007-05-21 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Mon, 21 May 2007, M9. wrote: Steffen Winterfeldt schreef: That sounds rather like bug. Please consider a bugreport. Steffen Well, i never encountered this before, but i never installed 10.2 on 'small' machines before... 10.0 did install without running out of RAMspace.. I

Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...

2007-05-21 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* M9. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-21-07 14:07]: Beagle is a disaster, which keeps creating unreadable files, that no one will ever use again. Beagle is the example of the 'cluttermachine'.. in my vieuw.. No, it *is* handy, even if you have order. You must have an older version which had problems or

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Using Instlux: issues setting up SUSE from Windows

2007-05-21 Thread Alexey Eremenko
I would like to go even further and feature-request openSUSE setup on NTFS entirely ! ! ! Is it possible to achieve ? -NTFS capabilities: I don't know for sure, but it looks like NTFS-3g has enough POSIX compatibility to make it possible to install openSUSE on ntfs-3g partition entirely. That is

Re: [opensuse-factory] SaX2 source

2007-05-21 Thread Manfred Tremmel
Am Montag, 21. Mai 2007 19:02 schrieb Rafał Miłecki: 2007/5/21, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.google.com/search?q=sax2+x11 Thanks, that was so easy. I did not think about typing x11. One more question: is there some way to avoid problems cause by lack of XFree86

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Using Instlux: issues setting up SUSE from Windows

2007-05-21 Thread Alexey Eremenko
This page indicates that it is indeed possible to run Linux OS on NTFS partition: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#rootfs Having Linux on NTFS can bring us to serious revolution across Windows users ! A real revolution in how Windows users *think* about openSUSE ! But we have to make it

Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...

2007-05-21 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 17:25 +0200, M9. wrote: We see that the suggestion to create a serious partitioner, like PQ Partition Magic was not so bad at all. I constantly run into problems, because it is much too difficult too change the sizes of existing partitions. I would suggest using LVM!

[opensuse-factory] VJ decompression error

2007-05-21 Thread Juan Erbes
After a problems with my ISP (Timofonica), I must to go back to my old 56k sporster Robotics and my older ISP (in the absense of adsl), but I has frequently disconnections problems with it. The dmesg result is: SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT-INV IN=modem0 OUT= MAC= SRC=62.189.244.228 DST=200.45.208.50

Re: [opensuse-factory] SUSE Linux Thin client solution

2007-05-21 Thread James Tremblay
On Thursday 05 April 2007 17:47, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: Adrian Schröter wrote: On Wednesday 04 April 2007 15:23:31 wrote Terje J. Hanssen: Novell recently introduced SUSE Linux Enterprise Thin Client Solution http://www.novell.com/news/press/novell-introduces-suse-linux-enterprise -th

[opensuse-factory] Installing on SATA HDD with SATA DVD-Burner

2007-05-21 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi list, I have installed openSUSE 10.3 alpha 4 on a SATA2 HDD using a SATA2 DVD-Burner. So far so good. However the mobo has Radeon Xpress 1250 integrated graphics which only runs in framebuffer mode on alpha 4. I would like to exercise the graphics chip in 3D mode but so far there are no

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Using Instlux: issues setting up SUSE from Windows

2007-05-21 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexey Eremenko wrote: This page indicates that it is indeed possible to run Linux OS on NTFS partition: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#rootfs Having Linux on NTFS can bring us to serious revolution across Windows users ! A real revolution