Hi Andrew,

are you asking what specific skillsets are needed by the 3rd party, or how to identify whether they are the right party to choose?

I guess it really depends on the exact nature of what you are asking of the 3rd party with regards to what skills they would need.

Can you be more specific?

Hi,

do you have internet access on the host box you are trying to do the installation on?

It might be a good approach for you to try installing OpenSuSE over http from one of the OpenSuSE mirrors, you will need the Start-CD-image, but maybe you can get this to boot from USB as its only a minimal OS.

If you think thats something you might want to try, I can post up some more resources on how to accomplish that.

Hope that helps

regards

Matt

Hi,

I've found that most popular for Enterprise class seems to be RedHat EL, SuSE SLES, and depending on the requirements of the environment, certainly for cloud environments many people are hosting using Ubuntu,Debian or Amazon Linux.

Also, I'm pretty sure you can pick up some stats on distrowatch.

I agree with mfillpot, and you could verify if that is the issue by specifying the absolute path to the binary as root. If it works, then thats what the issue is.

regards

Matt

Hi,

it was something to do with Linus saying he liked penguins, I think he wrote about it in his book "Just for fun" as well.

this wiki article has the original post/debate:

http://www.sjbaker.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_History_of_Tux_the_Linux_Penguin

hope that helps

regards

Matt

Sorry! missed the Virtual environment requirements there. DSL prob not suitable unless running something like UML.

Hi,

you could take a look at DSL (Damn Small Linux). It has a really small footprint (50MB ) and runs on just about anything.

take a look here:http://www.damnsmalllinux.org. It can be run as a LiveCD or installed and run on Physical or Virtual hardware:

I've run it successfully on Qemu, VMware Fusion, and LiveCD, all of these were great and reasonable fast.

Hope that helps

Matt

Hi atreyu,

have you checked out SoLR?? I've had a brief play with it and its pretty quick/powerful. Some pretty big sites use it behind the scenes too. - They've got a list of named users available and case studies.

Its got some cool features, caching (pretty important if speed is an issue), replication(awesome), distributed search, and it comes with a good suite of APIs for use with database integration.

http://lucene.apache.org/solr/

Hi,

I agree with mfillpot would be better to source a replacement cd drive from ebay, unless thats not an option for you?

not too sure on PPC G3 arch and if it supports Target disk mode but if it does...

If you have another mac, you could try starting the broken one in target disk mode so that it appears on the desktop of the 'other' mac. If your using OSX you could then use something like 'dd' and install the OS as an image (SuSE have suse studio which allows you to create your OS online and then download the HD image to push to a disk device.

Hope that helps.

Hi,

if you know the line number you want, you can:

vi <filename>
CTRL-C
":<line-number>"
then hit Enter

hope that helps

regards

Matt