[Sderby] Suse 8.0 installation

Tue Sep 17 18:34:00 2002

first off it not a case of install every thing on all 7 of the cd's for a star 
the last one and the best part of 6 are the source code for all the packeage's 
on the other 5 disk's..

how ever to install other software off the cd's use the yast2, which can be 
started from the third menu in in the bottom left of the kde bar, if u've got 
kde installed that is, other wise at a console 'yast2' should do the trick, to 
review instlled packegs, select the software menu on yast2 and hit 
install/remove, now this is one big list of the software, devied into diffrent 
cattogires, take ur time to broows round and install what ever u feel u might 
need, (personal i've installed suse more time's than i care to rember, been 
using it since version 6.3, so i know my way round the list prety well,)

scanner i cant really help with

cd-burner, this depens on what u've got but mostlikly u wont need a drive 
installed, u just ave to set it up right, which yast2 may ave all ready done, 

i sugest reading this suse article on it
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/tbraza_ide_brenner.html

how ever as a quick pointer, is it an ide cd-rw??? if so check lilo has an 
append line something like "hdX=ide-scsi" were X is your cd-rw, look 
in /etc/lilo.conf 

as for insernet connection what are u on??
bt adsl with a speed tocuh is easy (im on it, suse all ready  comes half setup 
for it)
ntl cable is even easier if ur running of the rj-45 socket
as for 56k modem, just hope ur using a winmodem

hope that helps

matt

Quoting mark wilkes <mwdl12311@blueyonder.co.uk>:

> Hello group
> 
> I am having problems with SuSe 8.0 installation. I have installed the first 2
> cd's, been prompted for root password, created a user account and viewed my
> new o/s. However I do not know how to install the remaining 5 cd's or any
> other s/w. 
> I have also tried and failed to install a driver for my cd burner and
> scanner. Printer is working ok.
> I have dual booted with win98 until I can set up my internet and mail
> facilities up and running. ( any tips )
> The only relevant experience I have is installing HP-UNIX 10.20 & 11 clean
> installs.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am new to Linux and this is my
> first installation (yast2 did everything).
> 
> Thanks for your time Mark Wilkes.
> 
> 

------------------------------------------------- 
Everyone should have http://www.freedom2surf.net/ 