Re: [linux-security] supported distributions

[Duncan Napier <dgnapier@sfu.ca>]

Oooops! Further to this, I just realized I got boot.iso off a SuSE
mirror site, and not sphinx. Maybe this was the cause of the problem
below. 

				Regards,

				Duncan. 

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Duncan Napier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Martin Siegert wrote:
> > 
> > 1) As of now SuSE Linux 9.0 is available from sphinx in
> >    /vol/vol0/distrib/suse/9.0
> > 
> >    I have not rewritten check-rpms to work with that distribution, but I
> >    will do so soon.
> > 
> 
> Did an NFS install off from spinx today using a boot CD from the SuSE 9.0
> bootimage in /vol/vol0/distrib/suse/9.0/boot/boot.iso. The machine was a
> Dell PowerEdge P4 server. I chose Manual Installation/network/NFS. The
> install went fine except for one hiccup. 
> 
> The installer's package list seems to be slightly out of sync with the
> contents of the /vol/vol0/distrib/suse/9.0/suse/i586 directory. 
> 
> For example, during the install the installer reports:
> 
> Package kdelibs3-3.14-37.i586 not found on medium
> Err:11282:ERROR Media file not found
> 
> Choosing the option "Ignore", allows the install to continue. (This is
> also annoying since it requires user intervention before the install
> continues). The end result was the KDE environment was broken. Manually
> installing the kdelibs3-3.14-37.i586.rpm fixed the problem.
> 
> An inspection of the RPM directory  
> 
> /vol/vol0/distrib/suse/9.0/suse/i586
> 
> shows that the existing package is kdelibs3-3.1.4-38, not
> kdelibs3-3.1.4-37. Other packages affected that I noticed were lilo and
> pinentry (don't ask me about the latter one - SuSE seems to throw a lot
> of extra baggage in, even if you request a "minimal install").
> 
> Feel free to email me with any questions about the SuSE install and I'll
> try to answer them, if I can.
> 
> 				Regards,
> 
> 				Duncan.  
> 
> 
> 
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