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Okay I've installed SuSE 10 on my T42 laptop and almost everything works well with the exception of the following:
With prelinking turned on I can't seem to update any packages. Is this normal? Thus far I've run prelink -ua to turn it off, is that the best way to go?
There isn't a shutdown command anywhere in KDE (or GNome from what I saw). I can only get a logoff prompt and then, once logged off, a shutdown option at the login prompt. Can't I get this on the menu to begin with?
I did indeed install both - unfortunately, since I can't get used to Gnome enough to actually use it. But surely there is a work-around for bringing the shutdown option back!
Sorry, I am a newbie and downloaded the eval 10.0 to look at it. I burned the iso file onto DVD for the 64 bit version of Suse 10.0 and everything there appears to be all right. But when I try to reboot off of the DVD it never sees it. I looked for possibly a copy protect or something else in Nero 6.0 that was causing a problem. But have not found anything. File size looks correct. And it sees the burned iso on the DVD.
Independent of what I do in the Bios, it always kicks me out to the virtual A drive when the Suse 10.0 DVD is in the drive. I contacted HP since it is an HP Pavilion zv6000. But they did not know why I am having the trouble.
Sounds like your running Windows. Do a BIOS setup to insure that the system checks the DVD at boot up. You can't boot Linux from within Windows. Excuse me if I misread your intent but you don't provide very much information.
Thanks George,
It is a Phoenix bios and the boot order starts off with DVD, A drive, C drive, etc. If I place the A drive behind C drive or before the DVD, etc, no difference in the result. When trying to boot off of the DVD in the D drive - It looks at the DVD drive but never sees the iso file. I checked to see if the file was copy protected on Nemos, does not appear to be, etc. It always kicks me out to the A drive and for some reason never sees the Suse 10.0 iso on the DVD. If I remove the DVD and allows the system to boot off of the hard drive, windows is downloaded no issue. If I place the DVD into the D drive and restart computer it kicks me out into the A drive.
It is the same for the 9.3 Suse version. I guess I am doing something wrong when burning the iso with Nero 6.0 but I have not been able to figure out what. I have to assume that other people have downloaded the 64 bit iso OpenSuse version on DVD without issues or I would have been able to find it written up on the forum. I would like to boot off of the DVD so that I could install Linux on my computer, just have not gotten past what I am doing wrong when burning the iso image. Or maybe I am just stupid. I assume that I can boot directly off of the Suse 10.0 64 bit iso that I downloaded from OpenSuse, is this not correct?
I suspect that there is nothing wrong with the DVD iso's on opensuse. If someone could confirm this at least, then I could concentrate on what I am doing on Nero 6.0 which is incorrect. Thanks.
Now I think I see your problem. Did you burn the iso as a file? That won't work. I know it can be done correctly with Windows but don't remember how. In SuSE I just double click the iso file icon and k3b comes up set to burn a binary image.
Btw, sometimes when I logout even, I don't get the menu items for shutdown (etc.) but instead there's what looks like a terminal window - though you can't get a cursor in it, nor is anything being printed to its screen. Killing the X session and it rebuilds...same thing. Have to go to tty1 and do a shutdown. Last time, it didn't even shutdwon the first time that way!
Knowing the iso file was alright helped a lot. Started making me think what I was doing wrong with Nero 6.0 and ending up with a data disk instead of a bootable image file.
In Nero 6.0 it is not obvious how they strore the data. The correct sequence (after burning a few DVD's) to get a bootable version of OpenSuse 10.0 64 bit from a DVD is the following:
For new compilation use the icon for Data-CD, etc. Then go to the "Disk " on toolbar and open boot options. You have to check the "make disk bootable" box. Then go to file (toolbar) and open "Write disk from iso file". Using the "Burn" icon will only give you a data DVD, not a bootable for installing Linux.
I installed a dual boot with Windows XP/OpenSuse 10.0 last night and finished off around 2 in the morning. Everything worked very well including repartioning between Windows and Suse including the internet upgrades that was part of the install disk. No files were corrupted and I did not have to go to my backup DVD for any files.
So could you not merely add the Shutdown button via the selection menu fromt he kmenu settings? There should be a list of items and checkboxes, and Shutdown, I think is one of em...It not work for you?
The option to have shutdown on the menu is already checked. You can "Add Item" to the menu, but I don't know what that command might be. If you have one, in KDE, right click on the menu button, choose Menu Editor, and if it shows you Shutdown (I doubt it will) you could click on it and tell me the command.
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