Subject: Re: yellowdog-general Digest 22 Feb 2001 04:37:34 -0000 Issue 349
From: AAI Gear Shop (mtnequip@mtnguide.com)
Date: Thu Feb 22 2001 - 15:05:02 MST
on 2/21/01 9:37 PM, yellowdog-general-digest-help@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
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yellowdog-general Digest 22 Feb 2001 04:37:34 -0000 Issue 349
Topics (messages 9462 through 9491):
Install on PowerBase 180?
9462 by: Pete Prodoehl <pete.prodoehl@cygnusinteractive.com>
Connecting to YD server from windows
9463 by: nicklinux@ops.org
9464 by: Isak Lyberth <ily@serv01.vejlehs.dk>
StarOffice in YD 2.0?
9465 by: Peter J Muhlberger <peterm+@andrew.cmu.edu>
9466 by: Hollis R Blanchard <hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu>
9467 by: Donn <donntarris@home.com>
9469 by: Donn <donntarris@home.com>
9474 by: Hollis R Blanchard <hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu>
AbiWord
9468 by: Hollis R Blanchard <hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu>
downloading StarOffice
9470 by: Hollis R Blanchard <hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu>
yup and bind update
9471 by: Bryan Stillwell <bstill@terraplex.com>
OpenSSH Problems
9472 by: Bryn Hughes <bryn@mail.demian.shacknet.nu>
9473 by: cdowns <cdowns@skillsoft.com>
9476 by: Bryan Stillwell <bstill@terraplex.com>
9478 by: Bryn Hughes <linux@mail.demian.shacknet.nu>
9479 by: christopher.murtagh@wcg.mcgill.ca
9480 by: Edward Lewis <lewis@tislabs.com>
XF86Config on Mac PowerPC Performa 6500/180
9475 by: "Joe DiFerio" <jdiferio@wvu.edu>
Should be a quick answer
9477 by: John Hyde <JHyde@zuniversity.com>
Yup v0.6.6 broken
9481 by: Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>
Switching from BootX to yaboot
9482 by: Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>
9483 by: "Nic Ferrier" <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>
9485 by: Hollis R Blanchard <hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu>
9486 by: "Paul J. Lucas" <pauljlucas@mac.com>
9487 by: "Paul J. Lucas" <pauljlucas@mac.com>
9488 by: "Nic Ferrier" <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>
9489 by: Hollis R Blanchard <hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu>
9491 by: Steve Poole <sp@is2-isnot.com>
upgrading to KDE 2
9484 by: Hollis R Blanchard <hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu>
sound configuration
9490 by: Donn <donntarris@home.com>
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From: Pete Prodoehl <pete.prodoehl@cygnusinteractive.com>
Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:32:43 -0600
To:
"'yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com'"<yellowdog-general@lists.yello
wdoglinux.com>
Subject: RE: Install on PowerBase 180?
I know 500mb (actually 516) isn't much, I tried with a 450mb root and 66mb
swap, and the installer said it would need 250mb of space to install. Will
it still fail with those numbers? I've left out Gnome, KDE, etc. but there
are some dependencies needed. I wouldn't think it would be too much though.
(Or I could be way off. :)
Pete
> ----------
> From: Cal Spooner
> Reply To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 7:03 AM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: Install on PowerBase 180?
>
> Hey,
> you said:
>
> >I'm wondering if there are any known problems with installing Champion
> >Server (1.2.1 I believe) on a PowerComputing PowerBase 180.
> >
> >I've tried a number of installs and all have failed. It could be the
> drive
> >(an old 500 mb Quantum) but was wondering about other's PowerBase
> >experiences. (I got as far as the mouse config on the most successful
> >attempt, then that fails and I can't do anything else.)
>
> You really need more drive space than that... my experience is that
> 1GB comes up a little short, with the swap. It'll give you all kinds
> of instabilities, with the mouse and conf nightmares... you need some
> free space on that disk AFTER the install.
> --
> Cal Spooner
> spoon@visi.com
> 612-574-1482
>
>
From: nicklinux@ops.org
Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:19:10 -0600 (CST)
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Connecting to YD server from windows
How do I set things up so that Windows users can access my YDL server? Mac
users get to it with no problems via the Chooser and server IP address. One
of our Windows support folks said I need to set up a share point.
Any help would certainly be appreciated. Thank you.
Kelly Nicklin
From: Isak Lyberth <ily@serv01.vejlehs.dk>
Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:21:30 +0100
To:
"'yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com'"<yellowdog-general@lists.yello
wdoglinux.com>
Subject: RE: Connecting to YD server from windows
Install the Samba server component from your YLD CD or download Samba from
samba.org. Configuration is done from the smb.conf file in your /etc folder.
Explanation in the file makes it fairly easy to set up the basics
Isak
-----Original Message-----
From: nicklinux@ops.org [mailto:nicklinux@ops.org]
Sent: 21. februar 2001 16:19
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Connecting to YD server from windows
How do I set things up so that Windows users can access my YDL server? Mac
users get to it with no problems via the Chooser and server IP address. One
of our Windows support folks said I need to set up a share point.
Any help would certainly be appreciated. Thank you.
Kelly Nicklin
From: Peter J Muhlberger <peterm+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 10:46:31 -0500 (EST)
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: StarOffice in YD 2.0?
Any idea when YDL 2.0 becomes available?
Also, has anyone successfully installed Star Office already? I wonder
how difficult that would be. Evidently the source for SO is available,
which I imagine would have to be compiled, and then pray for it to work
right. I gather that the source does not include a lot of 3rd party
software that typically comes w/ SO, such as spell check....
peter
From: Hollis R Blanchard <hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:08:10 -0500 (EST)
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: StarOffice in YD 2.0?
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Peter J Muhlberger wrote:
> Any idea when YDL 2.0 becomes available?
ASAP.
> Also, has anyone successfully installed Star Office already?
Yes. The PPC binaries are available from
http://penguinppc.org/files/pub/openoffice/
> I wonder how difficult that would be. Evidently the source for SO is
> available, which I imagine would have to be compiled, and then pray for it
> to work right. I gather that the source does not include a lot of 3rd party
> software that typically comes w/ SO, such as spell check....
The source takes 12 hours to build on a 400 MHz G3 with 256 MB RAM. I would
recommend using the binaries.
-Hollis
From: Donn <donntarris@home.com>
Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:16:46 -0800
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: StarOffice in YD 2.0?
Hollis R Blanchard wrote:
>
> The source takes 12 hours to build on a 400 MHz G3 with 256 MB RAM. I would
> recommend using the binaries.
>
> -Hollis
This may be a silly thing to ask, but having downloaded the binaries (as
one large file 97 Mb) from Sun and loaded them into the root directory
via unzip, I now have all of the separate files sitting there. When I
click on the one called "setup", it tells me that it can't run it, but
with no real reason attached. I'm assuming that I'm missing something,
could even be enough space to put it all together where it wants to go,
but that's only an assumption. Other binaries seem to work fine (the
executable ones), some come up with the same message.
I promise to read more, I have a couple of books and am studying up... :-)
Thanks to any and all who reply,
Sincerely,
Donn
From: Donn <donntarris@home.com>
Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:20:34 -0800
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: StarOffice in YD 2.0?
Hollis R Blanchard wrote:
>
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Peter J Muhlberger wrote:
>
> Yes. The PPC binaries are available from
> http://penguinppc.org/files/pub/openoffice/
>
> -Hollis
An interesting note (at least to me) is that at the site for openoffice
it states:
OpenOffice is under continuous development. So please
do not use this piece of software and then complain
that you "lost everything". You have been WARNED!
which is not found at the Sun site for the StarOffice 5.2 download for
LinuxPPC...
Am I being too nervous if I don't go with the openoffice version??
Thank you,
Donn
From: Hollis R Blanchard <hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:38:56 -0500 (EST)
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: StarOffice in YD 2.0?
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Donn wrote:
> Hollis R Blanchard wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Peter J Muhlberger wrote:
> >
> > Yes. The PPC binaries are available from
> > http://penguinppc.org/files/pub/openoffice/
>
> An interesting note (at least to me) is that at the site for openoffice
> it states:
>
> OpenOffice is under continuous development. So please
> do not use this piece of software and then complain
> that you "lost everything". You have been WARNED!
>
> which is not found at the Sun site for the StarOffice 5.2 download for
> LinuxPPC...
>
> Am I being too nervous if I don't go with the openoffice version??
Yes. There is only one version, and it is in the process of being ported to
PowerPC Linux. What you will find where I've pointed you will be at least as
up to date (and generally much more) as what you can find at Sun's website.
It
should not surprise you that Sun does not have PowerPC-specific release
notes.
-Hollis
From: Hollis R Blanchard <hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:19:55 -0500 (EST)
To: "'yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com'"
<yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Subject: Re: AbiWord
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Isak Lyberth wrote:
> gnome/helix provides a fine alternative to Office, in there abisuite.
> While not As configurable and extensive as ether MS office and StarOffice
> its plenty usefull and faster than both of them.
I like AbiWord as well - it's a lightweight solution. It doesn't, however,
offer the same feature set as OpenOffice.
The latest AbiWord will be on the CD, of course.
-Hollis
P.S. Maybe it's just me, but I tend to think of AbiWord as being provided by
the AbiWord developers, not Gnome or Ximian...
From: Hollis R Blanchard <hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:22:36 -0500 (EST)
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: downloading StarOffice
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Donn wrote:
> Hollis R Blanchard wrote:
> >
> > The source takes 12 hours to build on a 400 MHz G3 with 256 MB RAM. I would
> > recommend using the binaries.
>
> This may be a silly thing to ask, but having downloaded the binaries (as
> one large file 97 Mb) from Sun and loaded them into the root directory
> via unzip, I now have all of the separate files sitting there. When I
> click on the one called "setup", it tells me that it can't run it, but
> with no real reason attached.
Run 'file' on it - you probably downloaded the x86 binaries. Those won't
run;
you need the PPC build (from the URL you snipped -
http://penguinppc.org/files/pub/openoffice/)
-Hollis
From: Bryan Stillwell <bstill@terraplex.com>
Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 10:37:57 -0700
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: yup and bind update
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:00:45AM -0300, Carlos Xavier wrote:
>
>Hi, I'm new to YUP and I don't know how to solve this question.
>
>I'm trying to update to the latest version of bind with UP and
>everything goes ok until I get this error:
>
>[root@risc ]# yup update bind
>Reading RPM database... (100%)
>Performing dependencies sanity check...
>Checking for package list updates...
>Done transfering... 255B in 9.7s at 26B
>per/sec
>Package list is up to date...
>Reading package list... (98%)Traceback (innermost last):
> File "/usr/sbin/yup", line 29, in ?
> yup.main()
> File "yup.py", line 198, in main
> File "yupdb.py", line 739, in ReadRemoteList
> File "yupdbfile.py", line 262, in enterblock
>IndexError: End of block not found
That means that there is an error in the package list that was
downloaded by yup. The next version of yup (which I'm working on right
now) will have better error checking, but for now you'll have to remove
the incorrect database by running the following command as root:
rm -f /var/cache/yup/Champion*/*
Then you'll want to run `yup install bind` rather than `yup update bind`
to upgrade to the latest version. Just so you don't run into trouble
you might want to upgrade rpm while you're at it `yup install bind rpm`.
Bryan
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