How to obtain older rpm?

Vahis · External Since: May 19, 2007 Posts: 79

On 2009-07-24, houghi <houghi.DeleteThis@houghi.org.invalid> wrote:
> Vahis wrote:
>>> Making a 3.5 KDE live CD or anything else never has been easier. I have
>>> even made a version with a working MPlaeyr installed
>>>
>> Can you make a USB thingy like the one there with it?
>
> Yes. Screenshots : http://houghi.org/susestudio/
>
> I just build a 1.5GB USB image. Will test it later tonight. Unfortunatly
> I do not have the space to host it, so here the highly illegal torrent:
> http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5020999

So that one is similar to the one I pointed out?
An installable image that can grow to a full installation that "lives"
on that stick?

Or is it just a live one, like a live CD?

BTW is my normal Novell account cool for the Studio usage?
I know I have one, let me think...

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houghi · External Since: Apr 25, 2004 Posts: 3249

Vahis wrote:
>> http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5020999
>
> So that one is similar to the one I pointed out?
> An installable image that can grow to a full installation that "lives"
> on that stick?
>
> Or is it just a live one, like a live CD?

Live one with ability to install and it also has MPlayer.
I have not aptimalized it. You must have a 2GB drive as the image is
1.5GB when expanded. I am sure I could get it to 1GB when trying.

> BTW is my normal Novell account cool for the Studio usage?
> I know I have one, let me think...

No. You need to ask for an account. Once they give it, you can use your
Novell login, but they first must activate it. At this moment it is
still Beta.

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Vahis · External Since: May 19, 2007 Posts: 79

On 2009-07-24, houghi <houghi RemoveThis @houghi.org.invalid> wrote:
> Vahis wrote:
>>> http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5020999
>>
>> So that one is similar to the one I pointed out?
>> An installable image that can grow to a full installation that "lives"
>> on that stick?
>>
>> Or is it just a live one, like a live CD?
>
> Live one with ability to install and it also has MPlayer.
> I have not aptimalized it. You must have a 2GB drive as the image is
> 1.5GB when expanded. I am sure I could get it to 1GB when trying.
>
>> BTW is my normal Novell account cool for the Studio usage?
>> I know I have one, let me think...
>
> No. You need to ask for an account. Once they give it, you can use your
> Novell login, but they first must activate it. At this moment it is
> still Beta.
>
OK. They don't send me boxed sets so I'll wait till then.
I'll settle to download your torrent Smile

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houghi · External Since: Apr 25, 2004 Posts: 3249

Vahis wrote:
> OK. They don't send me boxed sets so I'll wait till then.
> I'll settle to download your torrent Smile

Check your mail.

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Tinkerer Atlarge · External Since: Jul 23, 2009 Posts: 2

David Bolt <blacklist-me.RemoveThis@davjam.org> wrote:

> >However I am now trying to reinstall debian on that same FireWire drive,
> >and it is proving more troublesome than my original attempt. This time
> >it only comes up to runlevel 2 and refuses to install the bootstrap on
> >the external drive. Perhaps it's me rather than the distros that are
> >the problem...
>
> Have a look around just in case there's someone called Murphy close by.

I think I must have accidentally deselected graphics when choosing
software to install. Debian is now running again on my fw drive (with
the help of openSUSE's xorg.conf file Wink

I can't remember whether I had to intervene in order to get the
bootstrap installed on the external hd the first time around. Maybe the
fact the debian installer had a clean disk to start with and I allowed
it to make its own partitions, i.e., its having lucky first shot, gave
it an unfair advantage over the others.

In the end I used hformat from suse to clean out the external disk's
bootstrap partition which mkofboot refused to touch. ybin worked after
that. By then I had put quite a few extra lines into yaboot.conf to help
it along. I'll probably never know how necessary they were for the final
success.

Cheers

Tink

Vahis · External Since: May 19, 2007 Posts: 79

On 2009-07-24, houghi <houghi.DeleteThis@houghi.org.invalid> wrote:
> Vahis wrote:
>> OK. They don't send me boxed sets so I'll wait till then.
>> I'll settle to download your torrent Smile

>
> Check your mail.
>

It's seeding here now Smile

Is it to be exacted on a stick or is it to be extracted and then dd:ed
to the stick or how does one put it on the stick?

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houghi · External Since: Apr 25, 2004 Posts: 3249

Vahis wrote:
>> Check your mail.
>
> It's seeding here now Smile

Nothing uploaded till now, so I asume what I wrote in the mail worked?
Can you confirm?

> Is it to be exacted on a stick or is it to be extracted and then dd:ed
> to the stick or how does one put it on the stick?

Extracted and then dd-ed. It is compressed because otherwise it would be
1.5GB instead of 0.5GB and that is a serious difference

houghi
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Vahis · External Since: May 19, 2007 Posts: 79

On 2009-07-25, houghi <houghi.RemoveThis@houghi.org.invalid> wrote:
> Vahis wrote:
>>> Check your mail.
>>
>> It's seeding here now Smile

>
> Nothing uploaded till now, so I asume what I wrote in the mail worked?
> Can you confirm?

Yesterday evening I first put your torrent going.
There was no traffic though.
This morning I downloaded the file from the link and gave it to ktorrent for seeding.

It checked OK and now it's seeding, but no traffic:
Seeders 0(1)
Leechers 0(2)

>> Is it to be exacted on a stick or is it to be extracted and then dd:ed
>> to the stick or how does one put it on the stick?
>
> Extracted and then dd-ed. It is compressed because otherwise it would be
> 1.5GB instead of 0.5GB and that is a serious difference

I can see that Smile

The unofficial USB thingy created by Carlos Goncalves was a bit
different, that's why I asked. His instructions were:

gzip -cd <download>.raw.gz | dd of=/dev/<device_name> bs=4096

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houghi · External Since: Apr 25, 2004 Posts: 3249

Vahis wrote:
>> Extracted and then dd-ed. It is compressed because otherwise it would be
>> 1.5GB instead of 0.5GB and that is a serious difference
>
> I can see that Smile

>
> The unofficial USB thingy created by Carlos Goncalves was a bit
> different, that's why I asked. His instructions were:
>
> gzip -cd <download>.raw.gz | dd of=/dev/<device_name> bs=4096

How is that different, except for the fact that it gives the commands
and puts them in a pipe.

Good to know that the URL worked. Did the image work?

houghi
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Vahis · External Since: May 19, 2007 Posts: 79

On 2009-07-25, houghi <houghi RemoveThis @houghi.org.invalid> wrote:
> Vahis wrote:
>>> Extracted and then dd-ed. It is compressed because otherwise it would be
>>> 1.5GB instead of 0.5GB and that is a serious difference
>>
>> I can see that Smile

>>
>> The unofficial USB thingy created by Carlos Goncalves was a bit
>> different, that's why I asked. His instructions were:
>>
>> gzip -cd <download>.raw.gz | dd of=/dev/<device_name> bs=4096
>
> How is that different, except for the fact that it gives the commands
> and puts them in a pipe.

I just don't know what difference "raw" makes there.
>
> Good to know that the URL worked. Did the image work?

Haven't tried yet.

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houghi · External Since: Apr 25, 2004 Posts: 3249

Vahis wrote:
>>> gzip -cd <download>.raw.gz | dd of=/dev/<device_name> bs=4096
>>
>> How is that different, except for the fact that it gives the commands
>> and puts them in a pipe.
>
> I just don't know what difference "raw" makes there.

It is just part of the name and the actual extention of the unpacked
package.

houghis_KDE_3_desktop.i686-0.0.2.oem.tar.gz unpacks to
houghis_KDE_3_desktop.i686-0.0.2.raw

whatever.raw.gz will most likely unpack to whatever.raw

As there is only one file, it is only gzipped and not tarred with your
example. With me it is first tarred and then gzipped. Not absolutely
needed, but also not a big issue.

houghi
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