08-06-2001
Hello,
I have been trying to load SuSE on my machine.
Details are as follows:
Tyan tiger 133 dual PIII 700's
1.5 GB RAM
4-20 GB IBM DTA HDD' (set as IDE)
Asound Gold ISA card
generic 24X CD-ROM Drive
ATI Radion Rage Pro graphics accelerator W/ 34MB of onboard RAM
EMC 21" high end monitor (that I don't have the drivers for.)
Epson color stylus 600 printer
Logitech Quick cam
HP colorado 8 GB Tape backup
Here is the issue I am having:
I blew away the Windose 2000 server that was running AD and was an DFS on Raid 5.
When I loaded SuSE I got to a screen that was to configure x11.
I set the video card to generic and at the next screen set the ram to 3400K.
I cannot find my monitor in the list that SuSE gives so I picked settings that are close to what I use.
KDE or Gnome will not load.
I used YasT2 to reconfig the X11R6 file but this got me to a loop detailing that I need a virtual link to my /usr/bin directory from the /var/bin directory.
I made the limnk and it directly went back into the X11R6Configure file and started again to get me into this mad loop.
I blew away the SuSE install and re-loaded Windose 2000 Server to get back online "as I am a newbee at UNIX and it's commands."
I humbly ask these questions.
1. What would be the easiest way to install this SuSE server package?
(I am willing to get a-whole-nother graphics card and monitor if this is what is causing all the issues. )
2. Is getting a Sun Microsystems unit for this install worth the cash layout?
Thank you in advance.
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
setconsole
SHOWCONSOLE(8) The SuSE boot concept SHOWCONSOLE(8)
NAME
Showconsole - determines the underlying tty of stdin
Setconsole - sets the underlying tty of /dev/console
SYNOPSIS
showconsole [-n]
setconsole /dev/tty<xy> < /dev/console
DESCRIPTION
showconsole determines the underlying character device of the current stdin. This can be used on /dev/console as current character device
to get the real character device back.
setconsole sets the underlying tty of the system console /dev/console. This requires that the standard input is identical with /dev/con-
sole and exactly one argument, a valid character device is given.
OPTIONS
-n Return the major and minor device numbers instead of the device file name. This can be used to asked the kernel for the major and
minor device numbers of a not existing device file in /dev.
BUGS
showconsole needs a mounted /proc file system and tries to set the controlling tty to stdin if no controlling tty is found. After reading
/proc the status of the controlling tty is restored to avoid problems with getty processes.
FILES
/proc/<pid of showconsole>/stat
the stat file of the showconsole process.
/dev/console
the system console.
SEE ALSO
blogd(8), console(4), tty(4), proc(5).
COPYRIGHT
2000 Werner Fink, 2000 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.
AUTHOR
Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
3rd Berkeley Distribution Nov 10, 2000 SHOWCONSOLE(8)