SuSE: Bootdisks and packages

SuSE bootdisks

These are mainly provided for helping people to get installed SuSE distributions earlier than 6.2. Those did not contain a driver for the Tekram DC395 SCSI host adapter. 6.2 will provide a DCX395 driver as will the disk images provided here. However the driver is not yet production quality, so please don't rely on your data being safe on a disk connected to it. NO WARRANTY IS TAKEN! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! For details see GNU GPL.

For installation you need to download both the Boot Disk Image and the Modules Disk Image. Please also have a look at the README file.
These images may be written to a floppy disk with a running Un*x system or using some DOS tool. On Linux, you have to use

dd if=eide01 of=/dev/fd0

, while on DOS, you should use the RAWRITE executable provided by the SuSE CD.
The DC395 is on the modules disk and can be loaded during the installation procedure.

SuSE packages

Here are some SuSE packages which I created or made changes to after the 6.2 deadline. Please note that these patches and packages may or may not be contained in later SuSE distributions. These packages are not official SuSE packages and are provided as is, without any warranty, neither explicitly nor implicitly. See GNU GPL. Official SuSE packages and updates can be found on the SuSE FTP-server.
The packages are provided as Source RPMs. If you want to install them, you need to have the needed tools and libraries installed and use rpm --rebuild. This should work on any decent Linux system. For your convenience, I have also put some binary packages (ix86 and alpha) here. If you need more alpha binary packages, please ask me. These will probably only work with SuSE 6.2 (and later). You might be lucky with RedHat 6.0, as it also uses glibc-2.1 and rpm-3.x, just like SuSE 6.2.

OK. Here comes a list of packages.

bc: update from 1.04 to 1.05a: Source RPM
i386 RPM
Doxygen: New package to create docu of your source code (similar to Doc++ or JavaDoc). Version 0.49.990728: Source RPM
i386 RPM
alpha RPM
fbset: More predefined modes: Source RPM
i386 RPM
jed: New version 0.98.7 (w/ debian 14 patches and proper info integration): Source RPM
i386 RPM
joe: Added better security fix which does not unlink DEADJOE: Source RPM
i386 RPM
mutt: Added deletion of editor backup files ending with a ˜ Highlighting of unread mails. Fix for contrib files and installation into docs: Source RPM
i386 RPM
pvm: Update from 3.4.0 to 3.4.1: Source RPM
i386 RPM
libffm: Mathematical library which speeds up math library functions on AXP (similar to libcpml, but free): Source RPM
alpha RPM
gpg: GNU Privacy Guard 1.0.0 + pgpgpg cmd-line interface: Source RPM
i386 RPM
gpgp: GNOME frontend for GPG 0.3: Source RPM
i386 RPM
gpgaddon: GnuPG: add-on modules: JACKSKIP, 3DES (SSLeay), RSAREF, RSA, IDEA. Please note that it is illegal to use IDEA for anything not strictly private (patented by Ascom) and to import RSA into the US (patented there until Sep 20 2000).: Source RPM
i386 RPM
libcap: Library to provide support for Linux-privs aka Capabilities: Source RPM
i386 RPM
USB: Some SuSE USB startup scripts: Source RPM
NoArch RPM

(w) by KG, last changed 99/08/24