Re: help on suse installation

Dear Martin,

Glad to hear that progress is being made.
It always takes hours to find and minutes to fix :-).

Regards,

Graham Brown


Martin Kuehl wrote:

> Thanks for your ideas Graham,
> 
> i finally managed to get the printer working for both computers. The problem 
> was not with cups as I thought but with the driver. As I was able to use some 
> Canon drivers (of other modells) for my canon i865 with Suse 9.0, I thought 
> this must be possible with 9.1 as well. Unfortunately that was the wrong 
> assumption. it was the drivers that crashed the system. I now downloaded a 
> commercial driver for the i865 from turboprint and it works all fine after I 
> reinstalled the whole cups packet. So i am getting closer to a stable system. 
> I will deal with the nfs issue after i return from my holiday. 
> Cheers and thanks again, Martin
> 
> On Wednesday 18 August 2004 10:59, Graham Brown wrote:
> 
>>Martin,
>>
>>I do not know if you have received help yet.
>>
>>If you have been reinstalling over the existing system, that may be the
>>problem and I suggest that you start with a clean disk.
>>
>>If you are still in trouble, and you are not absolutely wedded to SUSE,
>>and you can get the pc's to my office at SOHO, I might be able to get
>>you going with a basic debian install.
>>
>>Alternatively, you could consider using a knoppix install to get you
>>going.
>>
>>Graham Brown
>>
>>Martin Kuehl wrote:
>>
>>>Hi everybody,
>>>
>>>its Martin, I have met some of you at the last blug nights at Alfa and
>>>Steack and Eggs. Im  relatively new to Linux, so although I like it very
>>>much I keep running into problems I dont find solutions for.
>>>
>>>Can any off you reccommend a good Linux engineer that preferably speaks
>>>some English? German  is ok as well ;-)
>>>
>>>I have a job to be done. I failed spectacular myself.
>>>
>>>My wife and me we are running a small journalist office (Sanlitun, next
>>>to Bar street) and our setup is a huge mess since I tried to upgrade from
>>>suse 9.0 professional to 9.1. Unfortunately we are very reliant on our
>>>computers. So I am happy to pay for good service.
>>>
>>>This is what has to be done:
>>>
>>>- install Suse 9.1 Professional on two computers (ACER)
>>>- download and install latest updates from suse
>>>- set-up a small office network to share files between them (home
>>>directories) - set up DSL routing from the gateway computer to the client
>>>(network cards configuration is no problem)
>>>- make sure Cups server is up and running (this created the biggest
>>>problems for me, dont ask me why. I dont know, never had this issue with
>>>9.0) - make sure that the system is stable and all important applications
>>>work smoothly (openoffice, Mail, Firefox including plugins)
>>>- Install Firefox 9.x and real Player 10, (establish integration between
>>>them, if possible)
>>>- install chinese language support
>>>
>>> I tried to reinstall several times, still the system information tells
>>>me, my Kernel is fucked up. I will leave to Germany this Friday. If any
>>>of you could give me some advice, so I can fix that problem before that,
>>>I would really aprreciate that.
>>>Cheers, Martin
>>>mobile: 13801312032
>>>
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