Steven Harms » sles http://www.sharms.org/blog Life, Linux and Technology Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:02:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 SLES / SLED 10 with Intel 965 Graphics http://www.sharms.org/blog/2009/09/sles-sled-10-with-intel-965-graphics/ http://www.sharms.org/blog/2009/09/sles-sled-10-with-intel-965-graphics/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:41:57 +0000 Steven Harms http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=601
  • Howto: Add updated e1000 driver to SLED 10 SP1
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    • ]]>     If you need to update your installation to work with Intel graphics, there is an RPM you can install that will likely resolve your issues:

    http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mhopf:/hp/SLE_10/i586/intel-i810-xorg-x11-6.9.0.2-8.1.i586.rpm

    Install that, then run Sax or edit xorg.conf, and make sure to pick the i810 driver. (This post is in response to the number of forum posts on this subject offering no solutions)

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    1. Howto: Add updated e1000 driver to SLED 10 SP1
    2. SLES 11 SP1 and Novell / SUSE Autoyast with Intel / Dell Raid Controllers
    3. Adventures in 3D Dual Head for Dell D620 with intel

    ]]>     http://www.sharms.org/blog/2009/09/sles-sled-10-with-intel-965-graphics/feed/ 0     Installing Bazaar Distributed Version Control on SLES 10 SP2 http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/12/installing-bazaar-distributed-version-control-on-sles-10-sp2/ http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/12/installing-bazaar-distributed-version-control-on-sles-10-sp2/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:45:28 +0000 Steven Harms http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=287
  • Installing Flash 9 on Dapper
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  • SLES / SLED 10 with Intel 965 Graphics
    • ]]>     I chose to install from source, the process is (tested on SLES 10 SP2 i386):

    • wget –no-check-certificate https://launchpad.net/bzr/1.10/1.10/+download/bzr-1.10.tar.gz
    • zypper in python-devel python-xml
    • tar xvfz bzr-1.10.tar.gz
    • cd bzr-1.10/
    • ./setup.py install

    Now you should be able to run bzr from the command line.

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    ]]>     http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/12/installing-bazaar-distributed-version-control-on-sles-10-sp2/feed/ 2     Howto: Add updated e1000 driver to SLED 10 SP1 http://www.sharms.org/blog/2007/11/howto-add-updated-e1000-driver-to-sled-10-sp1/ http://www.sharms.org/blog/2007/11/howto-add-updated-e1000-driver-to-sled-10-sp1/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:41:28 +0000 Steven Harms http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=126
  • SLES / SLED 10 with Intel 965 Graphics
  • Installing Bazaar Distributed Version Control on SLES 10 SP2
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    • ]]>     Why
    I maintain SLED 10 SP1 based systems that need to install via autoyast (ie network install). This does not support newer intel nic cards (which are a big win because they were previously broadcom, but I pushed back and got intel cards). The process is not very obvious, and probably not for the faint of heart. The following process is used to make an ‘initrd’ file that you can write over the previous initrd file on the iso, and burn that so your iso will have network support.

    Install CD Process

    1: Extract initrd from SLED SP1 install media to working directory

    cp /media/sled/boot/i386/loader/initrd /home/sharms/working_directory

    2: Make a directory to work with contents

    mkdir /home/sharms/working_directory/work

    3: Extract initrd contents

    cd /home/sharms/working_directory/work
gzip -dc < ../initrd | cpio -idmuv

    : Retrieve driver file from forge ftp

    cd /home/sharms/working_directory
wget http://forgeftp.novell.com/driver-process/staging/pub/update/Intel/sle10sp1/common/i586/intel-e1000-kmp-default-7.6.5_2.6.16.46_0.12-27.i586.rpm

    5: Extract module from rpm

    mkdir rpm_contents
cd rpm_contents
rpm2cpio ../intel-e1000-kmp-default-7.6.5_2.6.16.46_0.12-27.i586.rpm | cpio -idv

    6: Add module to initrd

    cp default/lib/modules/2.6.16.46-0.12-default/updates/e1000.ko /home/sharms/working_directory/work/modules

    7: Update module files (this will vary greatly depending on drivers) but
    the two files to be modified are:
    /home/sharms/working_directory/work/lib/modules/2.6.16.46-0.12-default/modules.alias
    /home/sharms/working_directory/work/lib/modules/2.6.16.46-0.12-default/modules.pcimap

    I generated mine like this:

    depmod -b /tmp -n /tmp/workingdir/work/modules/e1000.ko

    8: Recreate initrd

    cd /home/sharms/working_directory/work/
find . | cpio --quiet -o -H newc > ../initrd
cd ..
gzip -v9c initrd > initrd.gz
mv initrd.gz initrd

    Creating a new SLES / SLED iso

    mount -t iso9660 -o loop /tmp/SLES-10-sp2-x86.iso /tmp/sles
mkdir /tmp/remastered-sles
rsync -avh /tmp/sles /tmp/remastered-sles
cp /tmp/workdir/initrd /tmp/remastered-sles/boot/i386/loader
mkisofs -v -r -J -o /tmp/sles10sp2-e1000.iso -b boot/i386/loader/isolinux.bin -T -pad -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -c boot.cat -boot-info-table .

    Addon media process
    This is needed because this prior process only covers the install cd, not the files actually installed.
    This can be followed from:
    http://opseast.wordpress.com/2007/06/05/autoyast-how-and-why-you-may-need-to-update-your-sle-installation-environment-source/

    Important to note    : when making the addon package, you will want to
    include both -default and -smp versions of the module rpm so that way
    both types of processors are covered.

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    2. Installing Bazaar Distributed Version Control on SLES 10 SP2
    3. Installing VMWare tools

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