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

2007-05-22 Thread richard (MQ)
Hans Witvliet wrote: As said, use LVM with lvm+reiser you can enlarge them on-the-fly, but have to unmount them for shrinking Seconded, though my preference is for ext3 - downside is the annoying tendency to do a full check just when you least want it, but on the plus side it seems more

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Roadmap

2007-05-22 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Wednesday 2007-05-09 at 15:19 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: We are happy to announce the final roadmap for openSUSE 10.3. openSUSE ... Thu, Aug 9 openSUSE 10.3 Beta1 release Thu, Aug 23 openSUSE 10.3 Beta2 release [/malicious mode on

Re: [opensuse-factory] Alpha4 dependencies validation

2007-05-22 Thread Andreas Jaeger
André Malin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le May 16, 2007 07:53:22 pm Cristian Rodriguez R., vous avez écrit : André Malin escribió: It seems to take ages to do the the dependencies validation when adding packages at the initial packages selection. Regards, try performing an installation

Re: [opensuse-factory] MD5SUMS for 10.3A4 DVD's

2007-05-22 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Keith Goggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi list, We have the MD5SUMS for the DVD Delta Iso's but do we have the MD5SUMS for the resultant DVD Iso's? Uploaded yesterday - check: 10.3-Alpha4/iso/delta/MD5SUMS.of.DVDs Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/

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

2007-05-22 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 richard (MQ) schreef: Hans Witvliet wrote: As said, use LVM Used it fist time last week on a 32bits machine, not much experience with it, but some people advise me to use it, just like now. with lvm+reiser you can enlarge them on-the-fly, but

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

2007-05-22 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Juan Erbes schreef: 2007/5/21, M9. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the subject. They stop the process of copying or comparing..very annoying. - -- I uninstalled beagle, and installed the old locate,

Re: [opensuse-factory] VJ decompression error

2007-05-22 Thread Henne Vogelsang
Hi, On Monday, May 21, 2007 at 22:00:14, Juan Erbes wrote: 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: PPP: VJ

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

2007-05-22 Thread richard (MQ)
M9. wrote: Used it fist time last week on a 32bits machine, not much experience with it, but some people advise me to use it, just like now. with lvm+reiser you can enlarge them on-the-fly, but have to unmount them for shrinking How do you move a partition that is large enough? You shrink

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

2007-05-22 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 richard (MQ) schreef: PS - No need to cc me, I'm on the list. Just pressed reply and cc'd mailinglist ;-) - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-03-default x86_64 Huidige

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

2007-05-22 Thread Sid Boyce
Pascal Bleser wrote: -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 !

Re: [opensuse-factory] Topics dist meeting 2007-05-10

2007-05-22 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Thu 10 May 2007 11:14:12 NZST +1200, JP Rosevear wrote: Are you talking about 128MB of *disk* space or *RAM* space? Please make and keep this distinction clear! Disk space. Thanks! What is the intended/envisaged use of such an installation / system? Do you think a small system

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

2007-05-22 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Tue 22 May 2007 02:18:49 NZST +1200, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: linuxrc in 10.2 is setup to ask for swap if you have less than about 256MB RAM (provided you already have a swap partition.) Thanks. No mistaking the hard hang, so there can't have been a swap partition. How many people are

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

2007-05-22 Thread Sid Boyce
M9. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 richard (MQ) schreef: Hans Witvliet wrote: As said, use LVM Used it fist time last week on a 32bits machine, not much experience with it, but some people advise me to use it, just like now. with lvm+reiser you can enlarge them

Re: [opensuse-factory] Meeting Minutes Dist Meeting 2007-05-10

2007-05-22 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Stanislav Brabec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Jaeger wrote: * Shared library policy see: http://en.opensuse.org/Shared_Library_Packaging_Policy If nobody raises objections, we'll move forward with it and add it to the packagers manual. I would raise several objection: 0)

[opensuse-factory] FYI: Freetype is broken in FACTORY

2007-05-22 Thread Andreas Jaeger
FYI: Current freetype in FACTORY is broken, use the version from Alpha4 instead of updating, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint =

[opensuse-factory] kernel update brake the boot

2007-05-22 Thread jdd
You are probably already informed :-), but the last 10.2 kernel update brake the computer boot... the menu.lst of grub is badly rewriten and the previous kernel and initrd are deleted this may be related to a special config.. I have on my drive * hda1 swap * hda2 10.2 * hda3 SLES boot

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

2007-05-22 Thread jdd
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: How many people are interested in running a smallish text-only(?) SUSE system on 128MB RAM? many I actually try to catch for may lug old laptops. many have only 128Mb ram and laptop ram is expensive (and it's not always possible to add) 10.2 runs without any problem

Re: [opensuse-factory] Meeting Minutes Dist Meeting 2007-05-10

2007-05-22 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Richard Guenther wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Stanislav Brabec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Jaeger wrote: * Shared library policy see: http://en.opensuse.org/Shared_Library_Packaging_Policy 0) Static only packages 1) Packages with some devel

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

2007-05-22 Thread richard (MQ)
jdd wrote: Volker Kuhlmann wrote: How many people are interested in running a smallish text-only(?) SUSE system on 128MB RAM? many +1 (bring back SUPER and Micro-SuSE ?) -- Cheers Richard (MQ) - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse-factory] Meeting Minutes Dist Meeting 2007-05-10

2007-05-22 Thread Richard Guenther
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Stanislav Brabec wrote: Richard Guenther wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Stanislav Brabec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Jaeger wrote: * Shared library policy see: http://en.opensuse.org/Shared_Library_Packaging_Policy

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

2007-05-22 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdd schreef: Volker Kuhlmann wrote: How many people are interested in running a smallish text-only(?) SUSE system on 128MB RAM? many I actually try to catch for may lug old laptops. many have only 128Mb ram and laptop ram is expensive

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

2007-05-22 Thread jdd
M9. wrote: For example: 2x 256MB (top) for Compaq Armada E500, costs me: EUR 184,-, incl 19% taxes: EUR 34,96 = EUR 218,96 , and this was the cheapest place i could find! (and what to do with the 64, and 128MB modules, i have left?) send them to me (for free :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net

Re: [opensuse-factory] Meeting Minutes Dist Meeting 2007-05-10

2007-05-22 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Richard Guenther wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007, Stanislav Brabec wrote: Yes, but it's related. If package changes from static to shared library and the static package was referenced as libfoo, you are in problem: All BuildRequires are now broken. Huh? If you had a static library only the

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

2007-05-22 Thread Vahis
M9. wrote: snip Final comment - if changes are made to the YaST partitioner, could I propose a 'newbie' (simple) mode button: defaults when set: swap plus single / ext3 partition; A separate /home is important IMHO. A suggestion to keep old home if there is one already when installing

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

2007-05-22 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdd schreef: M9. wrote: For example: 2x 256MB (top) for Compaq Armada E500, costs me: EUR 184,-, incl 19% taxes: EUR 34,96 = EUR 218,96 , and this was the cheapest place i could find! (and what to do with the 64, and 128MB modules, i have

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

2007-05-22 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vahis schreef: M9. wrote: snip Final comment - if changes are made to the YaST partitioner, could I propose a 'newbie' (simple) mode button: defaults when set: swap plus single / ext3 partition; A separate /home is important IMHO. Out of

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

2007-05-22 Thread rex
Keith Goggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-21 20:30]: Now openSUSE 10.2 GM is pre X-Org 7.2 so the Proprietary Driver would probably work there but sadly 10.2 does not support SATA HDDs and SATA Burners :-( Can anyone tell me how to install 10.2 GM with the necessary SATA support? 10.2

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

2007-05-22 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 19:31 +0200, M9. wrote: Well, since some dirs, like /usr and /var vary from edition to edition, it is never clear what the size most optimal should be.. That is the point... If it was easy to rearrange the sizes, like with PQ PM, you could easily adapt the size to the

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

2007-05-22 Thread Boyd Lynn Gerber
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Tue 22 May 2007 02:18:49 NZST +1200, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: linuxrc in 10.2 is setup to ask for swap if you have less than about 256MB RAM (provided you already have a swap partition.) Thanks. No mistaking the hard hang, so there can't

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

2007-05-22 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans Witvliet schreef: On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 19:31 +0200, M9. wrote: Well, since some dirs, like /usr and /var vary from edition to edition, it is never clear what the size most optimal should be.. That is the point... If it was easy to

Re: [opensuse-factory] kernel update brake the boot

2007-05-22 Thread Rajko M.
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 07:44, jdd wrote: You are probably already informed :-), but the last 10.2 kernel update brake the computer boot... Here was mess. In menu.lst initrd was listed with version string. for both old and new kernel. Old version of kernel and initrd that should be rescue

[opensuse-factory] Rootmodus not possible from configpanel, in A4.

2007-05-22 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is not possible to get in the root modus to change samba settings, or log-in without password, is this known, or should i file a bug? - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.21-8-default

[opensuse-factory] What did you guys do to /etc/fstab?

2007-05-22 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fstab looks realy horrible! All unnessesary info makes it difficult to see what is what.. (of course i know what is what, but it looks like...terrible..) for ntfs-3g, i had to go to 10.2 repo... Amarok works without libxine1, (which is not to find),

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

2007-05-22 Thread Sid Boyce
M9. wrote: Sid Boyce schreef: M9. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since reiser is accused of murdering his wife, nobody maintains the fs.. :-( Totally untrue. Many good reads on the subject out there. reiser2 is not being further developed, but the reiser4 team is

Re: [opensuse-factory] kernel update brake the boot

2007-05-22 Thread Rajko M.
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 19:35, Rajko M. wrote: On Tuesday 22 May 2007 07:44, jdd wrote: You are probably already informed :-), but the last 10.2 kernel update brake the computer boot... Here was mess. It was, but not as described. Old kernel was removed as jdd stated. Default I set