Re: [opensuse-factory] new live cd 2.5

2007-12-13 Thread Richard (MQ)
on desktop Click Apply Wait for KDE to action this Set tick-box Show icons on desktop Click Apply or OK Should be back to normal. HTH -- Cheers Richard (MQ) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail

Re: [opensuse-factory] How To Upgrade System with Separate /var Partition

2007-10-16 Thread Richard (MQ)
. The leading - is needed for PGP. So, Emacs rightly assumed that that's meant as a sig separator. No, because there was - -- and not - -- . FWIW, Thunderbird (1.5.0.12) also interprets this string - -- as a sig separator :-( -- Cheers Richard (MQ

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 install problem (low memory)

2007-10-05 Thread Richard (MQ)
with a few changes for 10.3 -- Cheers Richard (MQ) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse-factory] Unable to update from 10.2 to 10.3 RC1 on IBM R40

2007-09-26 Thread richard (MQ)
. NB - I allowed network access and remote repositories, so the kernel loaded for the installed system was newer didn't show the problem. HTH -- Richard (MQ) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e

Re: [opensuse-factory] Unable to update from 10.2 to 10.3 RC1 on IBM R40

2007-09-26 Thread Richard (MQ)
Am Mittwoch 26 September 2007 schrieb richard (MQ): I had this too, bug #327513 which was also marked as a duplicate of #327612 - not too helpful, is it, when you are trying to install! My fix (see my bug!) was to boot the installer with 'brokenmodules=pata_via'. It might be a different

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Unable to update from 10.2 to 10.3 RC1 on IBM R40

2007-09-26 Thread Richard (MQ)
Warren Stockton wrote: On Wednesday 26 September 2007 10:34:13 Richard (MQ) wrote: You're welcome. I think your best bet is to wait for RC2! RC2 has already been sync'd to OSS-Factory and won't be sent out as ISO's (as already mentioned in other emails). Quite so - culpe mea. My memory

Re: [opensuse-factory] Encrypted filesystem problem in 10.3 [solved]

2007-09-24 Thread richard (MQ)
is that DVDs are too small for making backups of a 300 GiB HD :-( Quite so. Even HD DVDs (when they finally become mainstream) are tiny in comparison. -- Cheers Richard (MQ) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 RC1 installation - (Second) hard disc seen as wrong size

2007-09-23 Thread Richard (MQ)
Andreas Vetter wrote: On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Richard (MQ) wrote: YaST's hardware info says it's using pata_via for the hard discs. I think this is a bug in pata-via and have accordingly opened bug #327513 And indeed booting installer with 'brokenmodules=pata_via' seems to fix the problem

Re: [opensuse-factory] Encrypted filesystem problem in 10.3

2007-09-23 Thread Richard (MQ)
mount and umount voluntarily encrypted filesystms via fstab, as previously? Looks like the crypto modules aren't loaded - try (as root of course) # modprobe twofish # modprobe cryptoloop and then re-try your mount. -- Regards, Richard (MQ

Re: [opensuse-factory] Encrypted filesystem problem in 10.3

2007-09-23 Thread Richard (MQ)
Richard (MQ) wrote: Looks like the crypto modules aren't loaded - try (as root of course) # modprobe twofish # modprobe cryptoloop and then re-try your mount. I should have also said - Assuming this works, add these lines to /etc/init.d/boot.local -- Regards, Richard (MQ

Re: [opensuse-factory] Encrypted filesystem problem in 10.3

2007-09-23 Thread Richard (MQ)
?) mount -o ro -t xfs /dev/loop0 /mnt/dvd.crypta.x I use encrypted CDs and DVDs too, usually I generate a random file and loop-mount it, save an accompanying md5 to check if it refuses a mount. Usually it's because it's scratched or dirty, or I have the wrong password. HTH -- Regards, Richard (MQ

Re: [opensuse-factory] Encrypted filesystem problem in 10.3 [solved]

2007-09-23 Thread Richard (MQ)
. wouldn't take very long if they ever wanted to... A lot of people take essentially no backups, and many of those who do take them leave unprotected data lying around. Not very sensible really! -- Regards, Richard (MQ

[opensuse-factory] 10.3 RC1 installation - (Second) hard disc seen as wrong size

2007-09-22 Thread Richard (MQ)
to 4.3G. I'm trying to continue but suspect that once power is cycled it will be very unhappy. 4.3GB looks suspiciously like 2**32 bytes - maybe a bug where something uses ulong where it needs more bits? Anyone else see this? -- Richard (MQ

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 RC1 installation - (Second) hard disc seen as wrong size

2007-09-22 Thread Richard (MQ)
Juan Erbes wrote: 2007/9/22, Richard (MQ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Trying to do a 'new installation' of 10.3 RC1 on my primary test machine, for these tests I use a second 10GB HD sdb (first HD sda has 10.2 and 'another' OS on it). First time round, installer complained it couldn't read partition

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 RC1 installation - (Second) hard disc seen as wrong size

2007-09-22 Thread Richard (MQ)
... (this added to bug report too) -- Regards, Richard (MQ) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2007-08-23 Thread Richard (MQ)
jdd wrote: 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 with swap

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

2007-08-23 Thread Richard (MQ)
Richard (MQ) wrote: jdd wrote: 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

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

2007-08-22 Thread richard (MQ)
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Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 Beta-1 on low-end machines?

2007-08-22 Thread richard (MQ)
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 requesting swap before continuing. Tried 10.3 Beta-1 (KDE single CD) on one such (Pentium-1, 133

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

2007-08-22 Thread Richard (MQ)
Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: 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 at the same place

[opensuse-factory] Beta-1 KDE live CD - fails on K6-2/500

2007-08-13 Thread Richard (MQ)
it runs (as on my other test machine) it looks really good! -- Cheers Richard (MQ) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse-factory] Call for testing: Alpha7 Live CDs

2007-08-09 Thread Richard (MQ)
against the newest version? -- Regards, Richard (MQ) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse-factory] Call for testing: Alpha7 Live CDs

2007-08-08 Thread Richard (MQ)
power-down. More machines to test on tomorrow... Hope this helps. I repeat - it looks really great! -- Regards, Richard (MQ) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2007-07-25 Thread richard (MQ)
generally do (or would if FTP install weren't broken ATM). The mini-iso is ideal for this, though in my experience it's usually possible to use one that's from any recent version (maybe someone will point out an error in doing this!?) -- Cheers Richard (MQ

Re: [opensuse-factory] DVD torrents not effective?

2007-07-20 Thread Richard (MQ)
(last night) very slowly, the full x86 DVD and the delta both completed by the time I got in from work (so must be 24 hours). Both will be left seeding for a fortnight or so, maybe longer but it's only an Alpha. Time now to try it out... -- Cheers Richard (MQ

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

2007-05-22 Thread richard (MQ)
; defaults when unset: LVM, separate /boot (ext2), /home (ext3), swap, ... -- Cheers Richard (MQ) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2007-05-22 Thread richard (MQ)
to cc me, I'm on the list. -- Cheers Richard (MQ) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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] GM release

2006-12-06 Thread richard (MQ)
Dominique Leuenberger wrote: Reply on 06-12-2006 9:46:09 BTW: The Lindows debacle should serve to remind us what can happen when the beast from Redmond considers itself (or its income streams!) threatened... Don't get this one: lindows got quiet a bunch of Money from Microsoft, so

Re: [opensuse-factory] URL warning (Was: OpenSUSE Home Server ?)

2006-12-06 Thread Richard (MQ)
jdd wrote: houghi a écrit : On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 02:04:37PM +0100, jdd wrote: Birger Kollstrand a écrit : I wonder if there is an interest in making a openSUSE Home Server solution? there is, of course, I have even a hole course on it