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Using LiveUSB!

Herby — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:50:41 +0000

After failing to build my own Live USB image myself some weeks ago, now I have tried one of the LiveUSE images from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/FactoryLiveCDs. And I must say: Good Work. I had only minor problems with using it and in future I will use my USB stick to demonstrate the openSUSE distribution to others instead of a Live CD.

Here are some hints for everyone who want’s to use one of the LiveUSB images:

I have to use “acip=off” as a kernel option to start the system from the stick. This is a bug and will go away with future version of the images.
I have used a 2GB USB Stick, but the ext2 partition one the stick doesn’t fill it’s partition. It has only a 0.3GB file system contained in a 1.3GB partition. It can be resized using resize2fs after pluging the stick into a regular linux machine and unmounting the ext2 partition. This should be done automatically on first boot. But for now you have to do this manually.
One advantage over a LiveCD is that you are able to install additional packages. There are some preconfigured repositories. Everything you have to do, is to activate some of them. You even may add other repositories like Packman. So first I have installed bash-completion and some other packages that are useful for me. Next I will try the mythTV frontend…
The second advantage is, that your configuration changes are permanent. So I switched the default language to german, setup openvpn to connect to my home server and configured my instant messaging account.

Thanks for this great work. With this stick I am able to run my system on most foreign machines.

First Ksudoku Hacker

Herby — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:18:12 +0000

My son (7 years old) is a great ksudoku fan. But playing the standard 9×9 puzzles lasts too long for him. So he was glad to see that in ksudoku 0.4 there are new types of puzzles including a 4×4. But unfortunately these ones are to easy for him.

I decided to make a 6×6 puzzle for him, what was really easy, and lasts ca. 10 Minutes. After sending my - little - work to Francesco, he told me I am the first one who created a new shape for his game.

If you want to play that too, press “Download new shapes” and select 6×6.

Logitech LX7 with openSUSE 10.2

Herby — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:21:29 +0000

One of last years christmas presents is a Logitech LX7 mouse. Optical and wireless. It was easy to get it running with openSUSE 10.2. I have plugged it in and it works.

But, no. Not everything…

This mouse has a tilt wheel and two additional buttons on top. Would be nice to make them work, too. After some searching I found that I must configure it to use the event interface. So I edited the mouse section in /etc/xorg.conf like this:
Section "InputDevice" Driver "evdev" Identifier "Mouse[1]” Option “Buttons” “9″ Option “Device” “/dev/input/event2″ Option “Name” “Logitech USB RECEIVER” Option “Vendor” “Logitech” Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5 6 7″ Option “Buttons” “9″ Option “ButtonMapping” “1 2 3 8 9″ Option “Resolution” “1200″ EndSection
Now I can scroll horizontally using the tilt wheel. Nice. Don’t know what to do with the two additional buttons…

About

Herby — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:31:15 +0000

This is the Blog of Herbert Graeber a supporter of the openSUSE project and Packman member. The primary work he is doing for these projects is packaging.

You can find the results of his work on the packman website and in the SUSE build service, especially home:hgraeber and devel:languages:haskell.

The Beginning

Herby — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:31:15 +0000

Now I am a blogger, too. I will write about all things I want the world to know. About openSUSE, Packman, what I do for these projects and what these projects do for me… and for you, too.

I am not a great writer, so do not expect to much…