Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 Beta-1 on low-end machines?

2007-08-22 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, richard (MQ) wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion but no joy. I tried this both in standard and > > 'safe settings' installation, also 'rescue system' - still does a kernel > > panic

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 Beta-1 on low-end machines?

2007-08-22 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, richard (MQ) wrote: > Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, richard (MQ) wrote: > > > >> Earlier versions of SuSE / OpenSuSE ran (albeit slowly) on low-end > >> machines - YaST installation detecting the lack of RAM and reque

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 Beta-1 on low-end machines?

2007-08-22 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, richard (MQ) wrote: > Earlier versions of SuSE / OpenSuSE ran (albeit slowly) on low-end > machines - YaST installation detecting the lack of RAM and requesting > swap before continuing. > > Tried 10.3 Beta-1 (KDE single CD) on one such (Pentium-1, 133 MHz, 80 M > RAM, 2G HDD

Re: [opensuse-factory] how to create a bootable CD from the DVD iso?

2007-07-25 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Per Jessen wrote: > Andreas Vetter wrote: > > > You could use the CD to boot and change the Installation Source in the > > boot menu of the CD (or with the install=... parameter). You could add > > an NFS source for installation. (Don't know if NFS works. FTP > > installation

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

2007-05-29 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
Hi, On Mon, 28 May 2007, Peter Czanik wrote: > Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: > > The latest linuxrc (version 2.1.25) can create swap partitions and swap > > files now. If you're going for swap files, you have to watch out not to > > reformat the partition later yourse

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

2007-05-24 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > > > On 5/24/07, Steffen Winterfeldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The latest linuxrc (version 2.1.25) can create swap partitions and > > > > > swap > > > > > files now. If you&

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

2007-05-24 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > On 5/24/07, Steffen Winterfeldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The latest linuxrc (version 2.1.25) can create swap partitions and swap > > files now. If you're going for swap files, you have to watch out not to > &

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

2007-05-24 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
The latest linuxrc (version 2.1.25) can create swap partitions and swap files now. If you're going for swap files, you have to watch out not to reformat the partition later yourself. To give it a try even if you have lots of RAM, boot with 'addswap=-1'. Swap file size is 1024 MB or whatever you p

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

2007-05-21 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Mon, 21 May 2007, M9. wrote: > Well, since i have noticed the enormous difference in performance and > speed, i will allways use them, if possible. > I realy can not understand that this huge difference, between 1 large > partition and several smaller ones, is not noticed among you people.. >

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 09:05, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: > > On Mon, 21 May 2007, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > On Monday 21 May 2007 08:37, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > > >

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

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 ; d

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 hom

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 mor

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

2007-05-21 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Mon, 21 May 2007, M9. wrote: > Yesterday i wanted to update 10.0 > 10.2, on a Compaq Armada E500, with > 192MB Ram. (Not possible caused by unsolvable deps.) > > Yast suggested to use the available swap-partition, and continued. > However, the new install somehow screwed the partition label, a

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 op

Re: [opensuse-factory] problem while installing opensuse10.3alpha3 on power

2007-05-16 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Mohammed Omar wrote: > Hi all, > > I tried to installed openSUSE10.3alpha3 on power machine(power4). I > setup nfs server. I made the system to boot with first CD and tried to > select nfs type of > installation,but it showed "network driver not loaded, please load n/w

Re: [opensuse-factory] Large file size problem under xen

2007-03-19 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Dr. Gustav Quade wrote: > for an advanced scientific project we use a large server with 64Gbyte memory > and 10TB disk space. Since some jobs will run for several weeks we plan to use > virtual machines which can be saved during maintenance tasks. > > Using kernel 2.6.18.8-0.

Re: [opensuse-factory] ide module bug #250241

2007-03-16 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, jdd wrote: > Hello :-) > Trying to install alpha 3, (VirtualBox) I hit the bug in subject. > > I could do the install going to ncurse yast and loading the ide-disk module. > however this module is located in the "unknown folder" and it takes me at > least one hour to find it

Re: [opensuse-factory] christmas screen

2006-12-07 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: > # mkdir foo > # cd foo > # cpio -i > # edit something > > # find | cpio -H newc -o >/boot/message Sorry, must be # find | cpio -o >/boot/message of course. Steffen

Re: [opensuse-factory] christmas screen

2006-12-07 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2006/12/06 17:27 (GMT+0100) Marcel Hilzinger apparently typed: > > > Am Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2006 17:17 schrieb Felix Miata: > > >> On 2006/12/06 15:53 (GMT+0100) Steffen Winterfeldt apparently typed: > > >> &g

Re: [opensuse-factory] christmas screen

2006-12-06 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Marcel Hilzinger wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2006 14:59 schrieb Marcus Meissner: > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 08:55:05AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > > On 2006/12/06 10:32 (GMT+0100) jdd apparently typed: > > > > just a question: is the install christmas screen just > > >

Re: [opensuse-factory] boot screen fun wiht RC1

2006-11-24 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Jens Herden wrote: > 3. I could not find a way to add boot parameter anymore. Was this removed? I > usually add a vga=0x305 because the installer is not detecting my screen. You sure can. Never seen it missing. > 4. After the installation the language menu is broken. I hav

Re: [opensuse-factory] beta1 first glance

2006-10-27 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, jdd wrote: > I begin to install the new beta1 from cd. > > I have just now two remarks: > * I appreciate the firmware test on the initial menu. is it possible to save > the results in order to give it to bugzilla in case there is a bug? could it But you can. There is a 'save

Re: [opensuse-factory] Monitor frequences during installation

2006-09-13 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: > My Viewsonic VP191b LCD manages [EMAIL PROTECTED] Checking with the F key on > the first SUSE installation screen shows that the correct 1280x1024 > resolution is set. But if I continue with this, soon after the monitor > runs "Out of Range" and one h

Re: [opensuse-factory] Monitor frequences during installation

2006-09-11 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > My focus is the very first "switch to graphical mode", the very first YaST > window. So it works for you before YaST? That would indeed be strange. Steffen - To unsubscribe, e-

Re: [opensuse-factory] SPAM: Can't install even using text mode and the solution!

2006-07-26 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, The Nice Spider wrote: > PROBLEM 10.2 alpha 2: > - > Using Asus P4V8X-MX with onboard VGA, Intel Celeron D > 2.6 GHz. > 1. on first installation screen I press F3 > 2. then this text appear at left-top screen: > > --pstx---rstk- > :

Re: [opensuse-factory] Skip graphical welcome-message of SL/SLES 10

2006-05-22 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Sun, 21 May 2006, Thorolf Godawa wrote: > > Activate caps lock before it is displayed. > > If this doesn't help, additionally hold shift while booting. > I tried this but it's quite hard to get pressed the key(s) during the very > short period the VM-BIOS is shown but I think I was fast enough

Re: [opensuse-factory] tagmedia question

2006-05-08 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Fri, 5 May 2006, houghi wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 02:39:13PM +0200, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: > > On Fri, 5 May 2006, houghi wrote: > > > > > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 02:22:26PM +0200, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: > > > > > > > > > &

Re: [opensuse-factory] tagmedia question

2006-05-05 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Fri, 5 May 2006, houghi wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 02:22:26PM +0200, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: > > > > You need to match the --pad given to tagmedia with what you give to mkisofs > > and things should be fine. If not, checkmedia will return an md5sum error. &

Re: [opensuse-factory] Learning Perl (Was: Re: [opensuse-factory] tagmedia question)

2006-05-05 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Fri, 5 May 2006, houghi wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 08:58:12AM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: > > On 5 May 2006 at 4:20, houghi wrote: > > > > > I would love to have the tagmedia included into makeSUSEdvd, but I have NO > > > idea how to do that. I can't read perl. :-( > > > > > > > Actuall

Re: [opensuse-factory] tagmedia question

2006-05-05 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Fri, 5 May 2006, houghi wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:54:48AM +0200, houghi wrote: > > SUSE uses tagmedia to check the media. I used the following command (and > > outcome) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] : tagmedia --md5 --pad 150 --check \ > > ~/iso/10.1_RC3/DVD_DIR/SUSE-10.1-0-DVD.iso > > md5su

Re: [opensuse-factory] tagmedia question

2006-05-04 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Thu, 4 May 2006, houghi wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:03:56PM +0200, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: > > On Thu, 4 May 2006, houghi wrote: > > > > > SUSE uses tagmedia to check the media. I used the following command (and > > > outcome) > > > [E

Re: [opensuse-factory] tagmedia question

2006-05-04 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Ulrich Windl wrote: > On 4 May 2006 at 12:03, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: > > > yast & checkmedia show you the md5sum of the final iso, which, given the > > current state of cryptography and computing power can not be stored in the > > iso

Re: [opensuse-factory] tagmedia question

2006-05-04 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Thu, 4 May 2006, houghi wrote: > SUSE uses tagmedia to check the media. I used the following command (and > outcome) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] : tagmedia --md5 --pad 150 --check \ > ~/iso/10.1_RC3/DVD_DIR/SUSE-10.1-0-DVD.iso > md5sum=99b7d0c508d213aa0c9ab6edfad56ef1 > pad=150 > check=1 tagmedia sho

Re: [opensuse-factory] How to write the log to harddisk while installing?

2006-03-09 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Azerion wrote: > Hey, > > as noob-tester I have an old computer with old hardware (seems to be > related). > While installing beta6 there were some problems, but some of them makes the > PC hang or stop the process before everything that is needed for typing into > root-co

Re: [opensuse-factory] Couldn't read CD1

2006-03-08 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Christoph Thiel wrote: > On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, David Wright wrote: > > > Why does YaST always complain that it can't read CD1 when in fact it > > can't read an ftp, http or network resource? Surely this is going to be > > very misleading for new users? > > > > When you click

Re: [opensuse-factory] BUG 152085 - Installation Sources 10.1 Beta 4

2006-02-22 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, David Wright wrote: > Thanks for the tip, but that didn't work "I/O warning : failed to load > external entity "" ", a second attempt (after double checking the text in the > script) it now says "No such client module add-source.ycp" > > Going into the software manager does