Apparently it is hard to keep up with kernel developments. VMware has problems. Latest one does not work with openSUSE 11.2 kernel (and Ubuntu kernels, and other kernels). I guess that’s the difference between supporting enterprise versions (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, SLES, RHEL) and not the newer (not to say leading edge) distributions (Ubuntu > 8.04, [...]
Long story short: I have a serious problem with my Dell Precision Workstation, which among other things has lead to 2 out of 3 disks being replaced. That will kill any RAID array
Used network boot to get into the installer (no DVD with the X200, hit F12 at bootup) Booted just fine, went fine until the partitioner kicked in Allowed me to shrink the NTFS Vista partition, but… … couldn’t work with the resulting partition Rebooted several times, ended up deleting the new extended partition, rebooting, then [...]
In Ubuntu: cd /location/of/repo sudo dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz then configure /etc/apt/sources.list.d/local.list: deb file:/location/of/repo/ / or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/local.list: deb http://myserver/location/of/repo/ / In openSUSE: cd /location/of/rpm/repo createrepo . and then sudo zypper sa http://myserver/location/of/rpm/repo My_Local In both cases, there are ways to crypto-sign the repositories, but probably optional if only accessible locally.