OpenSUSE Install :: Replacing SLED 10 SP1 With 11?
Sep 9, 2010
I have recently purchased an MSI U100 Netbook with SLED10 & upgraded to SP1. I have had a number of issues trying to upgrade to SP2. So many I had to go back to factory settings & re-upgrade to SP1! I spend several hours daily trying to resolve basic usability issues with internet and multimedia. This is not how I wish to spend the next 12 months traveling with the Netbook. I am at a point where I am about to take the easy option, ditch SLED & install Windows XP OS on the Netbook. I would rather stick with the Linux base if i can.Is it possible for me to download OPENSuse 11 on the SLED 10.1 OS without and dependency conflicts?
Is it advisable? Will many of my multimedia issues disappear [I can't even upload .jpeg, .avi or .mov files from my camera to my blog and my generic MP3 player is not recognised even as a mass storage device ] Would I have to completely uninstall SLED to install OpenSuse or are they compatible? If I have to uninstall how?!
Our Sled 10.1 server is running as a VM on VSpher 4. After a power outage we can not log into the server we get the Error in Module message. I can however disable the nic card for the server in the vm console and the system logs in with no problem.
apps that ran and installed just fine under 11.1 don't (seem to) under 11.2.I was running Gnome under 11.1, and have used the same desktop as I moved to 11.2.For example, I was able to install and run the Novell Support Advisor 1.1 under SLED 11.1 just fine. I would need to authenticate as root before the app would run, but it would run just fine.After I upgraded from SLED 11.1 to 11.2, things just don't seem to be as stable. NSA (and other apps) seem to install, but their icons don't appear in the applications folder, and when I login su and then attempt to run, the terminal window usually hangs.
I can't get a CIFS client to install (I see it in the list of installed apps, but it's not present under YAST).Banshee was a beautiful app under 11.1, but I feel like I spend more time working around it's glitches in 11.2 rather than setting it to play and enjoying it's usefulness.The Novell Client (yes, I know, it's not officially supported under 11.2) has caused me enough heartache that I VNC an XP box just to get to files.So anyway, enough whining, what can/should I do to work through these issues? Should I just give up and go back to 11.1? Is it better to burn and re-build rather than upgrade per the OpenSUSE docs? Is there some "magic" log files folder (other than availble via YAST) to see where error messages are occurring so I can troubleshoot the issues better?
I am running OpenSuse 11.4 with Gnome3, with 2 hard drives. One is for the system and has three partitions - root, swap, and home. The second is only data storage. Last week I started getting popups stating I had a hard drive going bad. I checked SMART status in disk utility and had several bad sectors on the system drive, so I cloned the drive to a new one with Clonezilla. Here is where everything went kooky. When I booted the new disk I had a ton of errors at boot along the lines of unable to find a drive. Upon closer inspection I realized the the system located the drives by device id instead of the traditional /dev/sdx. So I started playing with grub settings but never could get it to stop looking for the old hdd. Next, I popped in my net install disc and found I could do an upgrade install which proceeded normally. When I rebooted, no more boot errors, but I get to the black screen with spinning cursor and it will not proceed any further, I even let it run overnight and when I woke up, spinning cursor. As for troubleshooting, I was able to CTRL+ALT+F2 to a console and log in as root successfully but not as a user. When I try to log in as a user, I enter my username, then password, the "have a lot of fun" flashes by quickly and I am returned to a login prompt. I logged in to the console as root and created a new user and tried logging in again, but same thing. I am able to do an ls -l on /home/mike and all my files are there and the listed permissions look ok. I am at a loss as to what to try next. My old hdd will still boot, I just pulled it to reduce risk af data loss. I have never used auto yast before but I always see the prompt for it during an install. Can I clone the system with auto yast on to a different hard drive. Does it strip the by-device-id from the image? Which logs should I check?
Anyone have better documentation or an update to the this version of the file Tomcat HOWTO openSUSE as that document is referencing 10.2. Or a document for use with SLED.
I want to insert a CD-ROM and have it automatically be mounted to someplace like /media/cdrom and create an icon on the Gnome desktop, while logged in as a non-root user under SLED 11.
I have recently set up a CENTOS server using the kernel 2.6.18-164.el5xen (x64 5.4 Install I believe). Originally I set it up with Xen to becasue I was goig to create the odd VM on it, however I no longer need to do this.Further, I believe I am having networking issues due to the installation of Xen. The machine cannot seem to locate any network addresses (eg websites) unless I put in a hosts entry for them. I believe this networking issue would be easier to rectify if the virtual networking interfaces for Xen were not installed but to do this requires a Kernel replacement. Im not experienced with doing this and the machine is located remotely to me and I dont have the original install CD available.How would I go about replacing the kernel to the non Xen version if I dont have the install CDs?
I want the output of this file to be in a column, not next to each ohter. I tired putting a a newline escape character in a few places, but it breaks the script. It is easy in awk, just ls -ltr | awk '{print $8 }'
i am trying to replace the last digit in the ip address(25) with 47 using following:Quote:echo 192.168.0.25|sed -r s/([0-9]*.[0-9]*.[0-9]*)/47/g'but not able so far, was wondering if you can help, so i can find my mistake.
I have a dual boot configuration now, Windows XP SP3 on the C drive (sda,1 it's a Dell Dimension 4700) and FC 6 on sdb. My goal is to install 10 and be able after installation to boot to either XP or 10. Some of the installation documentation baffles me, so I want clarification before I begin. 1st Question Looking at the screen shots of an installation on the fedora site, the Partition Selection Screen asks What drive would you like to boot this installation from?
Booting an installation? Maybe this meansFrom what drive are you installing? Once 10 is installed, what drive should be the boot drive? From what drive should I boot to install? Would somebody explain the intent of this Partition Screen question? BTW, I will be installing from CDs. 2nd Question: Upgrading Boot Loader I don't understand the Installation Guide, section 8.3 on upgrading vs skipping. I think I got into trouble on this very point going from FC3 to FC6. The boot loader on my Dell must be grub. So, I think I want to upgrade. Perhaps the confusion is that I'm replacing FC6, not upgrading, and upgrade here means only for grub, not for the install.
I know that this topic has been posted, responded to, and maybe even resolved, many times here, but I am stuck here with partially dead fileserver and need some pointers.
Problem: one disk drive that was part of a logical volume died. I have a replacement, but I can't get it into the LV and get the LV back up again.
pvcreate --uuid <uuid of dead drive> /dev/sdX1, where /dev/sdX1 is the newly created drive and its partition. vgcfgrestore VolGroup vgscan VolGroup vgchange -ay VolGroup e2fsck /dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol
but, e2fsck can't find a superblock. Apparently this drive is the first in the LV sequence, and it is not formatted as part of the LV.
So how to I get this new disk formatted into the LV without reformatting the entire LV and losing what data I still have?
Possible Duplicate: replacing dot in string, but leaving last one replace the "." [dots], but leave the last one: e.g.: .txt [there could be random number of dots in the string, even zero, i just need the last one]
I recently decided to try out Fedora 12 (which uses Grub, not Grub2) along side my Ubuntu 9.10 which does use Grub2, and Windows 7 (yuck). I would like to use Grub2 to boot (Fedora's Grub does not recognise my 9.10 install). I've searched for a way to simply remove Grub, but have only found ways to remove it by using "the Windows fix" (fdisk /mbr or something similar) which I do not want to do, and I do not want to modify Grub's menu.lst, I just want it gone and to install Grub2. I am most likely going to remove Fedora soon anyway.
I have a first generation Macbook that shipped with Tiger. I don't often use the os x partition anymore, as I installed Windows XP on a 15 gig partition back when bootcamp was still in beta and I normally use that when I'm on my laptop. Since Tiger is rather old and the only reason I would want to upgrade to leopard is to have access to bootcamp again (they disabled access to the bootcamp application in os x, but I can still boot into windows), I have been thinking about wiping out my os x installation and using ubuntu instead. Does anyone have any thoughts on the pros and cons of totally removing os x?
The main reason I hesitate to just jump in and do it is because if I decide to install os x again I won't be able to install bootcamp again, unless I buy leopard. If I wipe out os x and install ubuntu, will I still be able to access windows in the same way? Windows uses bootcamp drivers to run properly, so I have never quite been sure if it is pulling something off of the os x partition or if it is totally standalone.
I am dual booting Windows Vista and Ubuntu 8.10. Trying to replace 8.10 with 10.04 while keeping the Vista partition. The partition manager is confusing and won't let me fully replace 8.10.
I am new to Linux. Thanks in advance for correcting my misunderstanding and answering.
I would like to modify the gdm for testing purpose. To get started, I first get the source code of gdm (using apt-get source, or download the latest version from official gdm website) and compile it without any modification. Then I replaced one of the binary file of gdm. However, it resulted in "Ubuntu is running in low graphics mode" error.
My questions are: 1. why simply replacing the binary did not work? 2. I think it is possible that the way I configure/compile the program wrongly. So, is there a way to know how those programs are compiled in the distribution?
A problematic system has this kernel: 2.6.35-22-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Sun Oct 10 09:26:05 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
A working system has this kernel: 2.6.32-22-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 3 19:31:57 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Can I put the working kernel onto the problematic system? I've copying the contents of /boot from the working system (I did *not* copy the /boot/grub directory). Should I manually start editing grub.cfg for a dual kernel boot or is there a better way? The problematic issues are with video playback (choppy after upgrade) and video capture - you can only open the capture device once, then you have to reboot since upgrading.
I have a PC with Windows XP SP2. It had two HDDs, one (IDE) with partitions C: (boot) and D:, and another (IDE) 200GB disk, E:.
Recently, the second disk caused the system to issue filesystem error messages on boot. I decided to image it to another location on the home LAN, and then to copy the image to a new disk. So I have used "Live Ubuntu" "ddrescue" to salvage the disk image (with only about several k of error sectors) to another file on an SMB share.
I then got a new 500 GB SATA HDD, used a "Promise 4302" IDE-to-SATA PCI controller to interface to it, loaded the "Live Ubuntu" and used "ddrescue" to copy the old disk image to the new HDD. (The Ubuntu kernel 2.6 recognized the SATA disk and its "Promise" controller with no problems). So far, all according to instructions.
Now, according to instructions, the next step is to boot the XP system and let it do CHKDISK /F on the new disk.
The problem is: the computer freezes (hangs) in the initial step of the boot.
I tried to do a "Repair install" using an XP install CD - again the PC freezes after the message: "Inspecting your hardware".
Using the same XP install CD, it tried going into the "XP Recovery console" (in order to do "CHKDISK /F") - again, the PC freezes after "inspecting your hardware".
Booting the same PC from an Ubunbtu Live CD, situation is much better. When Ubuntu boots, it says: "Incomplete multi-sector transfer, Input/output error", but then it continues normally.
I read somewhere that I should change the partition ID from 83 to 0 or 7 (NTFS). But using fdisk (or cfdisk) and changing the partition ID (=type) (and doing "w" - namely: save) - does not actually change the ID.
Just yesterday I did a fresh install on my aspire one of ubuntu 11.04. It then installed konqueror and (apperently at the same time dolphin). Now I did allot of googling and now it works to a level that if i press home folder in my unity bar it opens in Dolphin.Nice But the most important thing still doesnt work, that is if I want to save a document from libreoffice or pdf or what ever program it still opens a window of nautilus. I need it to be a window of dolphin because nautilus doesnt understand the networkdirs you can make with dolphin. (makeing a nautilus network dir doesnt work).
Is there any working commandline alternative to # find /some/dir -group xxx -user yyy | chown xxxxx:yyyyyThe main purpose is to replace ownership and goup of certain files in subdirectories. Or nevertheless I need to write shell script for that simple operation ?
assume that i am having the following line in a file called file1. triumph and disaster must be treated same. I want to replace this line with. follow excellence success will chase you. is it possible to do this using sed. if possible kindly post me the code.
I need to replace a value in a file. For example the content of data.txt file is: 1 1 23 2 1 42 3 2 52 4 2 62 5 1 77 6 1 88 7 2 99 8 1 100
Could I substitute 2 in second column with 3 using awk and or sed or other command so that the data will be change as follow? 1 1 23 2 1 42 3 3 52 4 3 62 5 1 77 6 1 88 7 3 99 8 1 100
I have just re transcoded a bunch of avi's. to tell the new ones from the old ones I put '[xvid]' at the end of all the new avi's. but now I have deleated the old avi's I want to remove the [xvid] part of the file name. This is what I have so far
Code: #!/bin/bash for name in *.avi do newname=`echo "$name" | tr -d [xvid]`
