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You will need to know these to get the NET install started...

Net Install Parameters:
  Protocol: HTTP
  Host: www.gtlib.gatech.edu
  Path: pub/opensuse/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/

Net Install CD:
  http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/opensuse/distribution/11.1/iso/openSUSE-11.1-NET-i586.iso

ISO Directory:
  http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/opensuse/distribution/11.1/iso/

Furthermore, you may need to install these lines into your /etc/hosts file:

## added to solve un-explained "Couldn't resolve host..." error
## while installing OpenSuSE 11.1 (NET) - these lines provide the
## hostname->to->ip address mappings for the OpenSuSE mirrors; 
## NOTE:  These addresses should be checked and updated before use!  
## These is just what the 'host' command returned today...
##     -pdwilso(at)gmail.com
128.8.235.18    mirror.umoss.org
134.174.150.123 mirrors.med.harvard.edu
149.20.20.135   .kernel.org
64.50.236.216   suse.mirrors.tds.net
204.152.186.174 opensuse.ca.unixheads.org
64.50.238.52    ftp.osuosl.org
64.50.236.52    ftp.osuosl.org
146.137.96.15   mirror.anl.gov
146.137.96.7    mirror.anl.gov
198.60.22.13    mirrors.xmission.com
146.6.54.21     ftp.utexas.edu
72.3.128.167    mirror.rackspace.com
155.98.64.86    opensuse.cs.utah.edu
129.21.2.111    mirrors.rit.edu
64.90.181.77    mirror.nyi.net
80.237.136.138  ftp.hosteurope.de
156.56.247.193  ftp.ussg.iu.edu

Hosts file: uploads/opensuse-mirror-hosts-20090212.txt

An odd aspect of the DNS name resolution problem: For some reason, Konqueror could not resolve host names, but 'host' could.

Finally, here is a script that I used to create the hosts listing:

#!/bin/sh
host $1 | perl -e 'while(<>){\
  chomp;m/([a-z.]+) has address ([0-9.]+)/ && print"$2\t$1\n";\
}'

This script is used like:

  getip.sh mirror1.kernel.org

and returns

  <IP-Address>\t<Hostname>

If you've got root, the output of getip.sh can be used thus:

  getip.sh mirror1.kernel.org >> /etc/hosts

Of course there are other ways to do this. Of course you should check the output of getip.sh before appending it to /etc/hosts.

Caveat emptor. YMMV. Don't take any wooden nickels.

Labels: 11.1, install, linux, network, opensuse, tip, workaround

posted by pd wilson   #   04:20

The enclosure, tikiwiki-install-msgs.txt, shows the messages I got in cPanel when I used Fantastico to install TikiWiki to my server at tiki.earthside.org ().

Initially, there was a configuration problem with the earthsid user account - the user name for the earthside.org domain account on the server - in that the user account did not have permission to create the MySQL database that TikiWiki uses.

Used the root account to give earthsid permissions on MySQL (and phpMyAdmin), but still getting the error:

   Table 'earthsid_tiwi1.users_users' doesn't exist

I have removed and re-installed the TikiWiki package several times, including [most recently] after adding permissions to the user account. My reasoning was that, if the user did not have sufficient privileges on the database system, then the database tables could never be created at install time, assuming the installer is run by the [unprivileged] user.

Note also that the Fantastico control panel warns when attempts are made to install Fantastico packages on a user account while logged in as root. Therefore, I did not attempt to install TikiWiki as root...

In any case, I used phpMyAdmin to examine the database earthsid_tiwi1 (it did/does exist, and is shown in the phpMyAdmin interface for root), and there is no table called users_users, just as the message says...

Now, the problem is: I have not found a way to get to the TikiWiki login screen (as shown in the TikiWiki Documentation FOO) in order to log in and change the admin password.

Labels: install, software, webhost

posted by pd wilson   #   04:31