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Windows$ XP uses NTFS. For sake of saftey NO. you can not write to NTFS (yet). What I did was chage my Window$ XP partition to FAT32. If you didnt do this during its install (if you had that option) I suggest some sort of 3rd party software. I have a copy of Partition Magic8 that I use.

So far I love the Distro. Lack of support does not help though. When I do a google search I always seem to get the german pages And it does not always have the trnslate option. But to be honest I have always liked the way Mandrkae sets up their menu. For instance I found kget in the "System" menu, not the internet menu. I quess it takes some getting used to. The great thing about having 2 Distros installed is when I break one I dont need my livecd to recover from or "chroot" from. To be honest I was shocked that their was not a section for SUSE in Linuxquestions.org forums

I must agree. By NO MEANS do I want to make this into a political talk but: I spent 9 years in the US Army. Loved it and have many good memories. As an American I hate the US strong arm (police the world) policy. Ill just keep it at that OK :P You may have misinterpreted me a little. I was just getting a bit "scared" that European countries are getting silly like the US when it comes to copywrite laws. One can love their country and still dislike their actions.

It may be good to explain why I place it all in my /home I reinstall Mandrake on a weekly basis. You I want to learn as much as I can. The best way for me to learn is to break it, then to and fix it. :D End result I reinstall every week. I did a --auto-select --noclean on the first time so I have a local update so I dont kill the update servers. Back to the point: I dont format my /home so on first boot I have a working MF with all plugins installed Of course some dont work until I install stuff like acroread.

chin808 - I made a local mozillafirebird in my /home directory. After installing the .tex.rpm I went into the /usr/lib/mozilla1.4/plugins and copied the java directory into my /home/Mozillafirebird/plugins relinked the plugin and it works. To be honest I copy all plugins to my local /home/Mozillafirebird/plugins I dont link them. I have had some trouble if I place them in the .phoenix directory. Or I have trouble useing any mozilla browser from the /usr/lib directory. I found it just works putting everything in my /home directory. May be wise to point out I dont use the nightly build.

I have not been able to get in working for some time. No help here sorry

OK Vir@s from the SUSE forum found this for me: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66381 Not sure if its a KDE bug or a simple master browser problem. I havent tried any of the fixes yet.

Isnt their a module in webmin to test hdparm settings? Cant remember of hand (not at home). Still may not work but worth a look.

Cant help you with fonts or mutiple browsers. but here is how I got mozilla firebird working with java. I dont use the standard java .rpm (j2re) I use Texstars mozilla java: ftp://mandrake-forum.org/pub/Texstar/MDK-...4-1tex.i586.rpm After you install it it will put its own "java" folder in the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins Folder. It will even link it for you. I had too many pissed off nights trying to get java working until I found Texstars .rpm. What about Opera? Never used it myself. Man I miss Texstar :unsure:

acpi works for me but not suspend or powersaving stuff. For that matter it was REAL buggy in WinXP also. As for fast distro: Boot time was comparable to MDK9.2 How fast files opened and general process. For instance my NWN game runs better in SuSE. That was with the default (99) kernel. When I up'd MDK to the 2.6 in ran real smooth (until some big time segmet errors every time I tried to "su"). My best guess is that SUSE by default has a lot less loaded than Mandrake (just a quess) To be honest I prefer urpmi/gurpmi to apt-get / synaptic. (as put on a flame vest) When I upgraded SuSE via synaptic (apt4rpm) it made the system real unstable. Instead of trouble sorting it I just cleared my entire Laptop partition and started over. :P Since Novell is buying SUSE does that mean it will be an american distro? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Question to Europeans, What is the patent issue like? You see according to "packman" he can no longer carry the DVD drivers. http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=122 Is the PLF next? We may want to get libdvdcss while we still can. I think Lindows has the drivers. I think due to the fact you pay for click-n-run the royalties are paid. Not sure though. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> My problem with SUSE9.0 Pro. The "Local Network" icon. or just entering "smb:/" in konqueror or nautilus. It gives me a big time error about libsmbclient. Cant find the fix yet. Tried this: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-...ary/077928.html didn't work I read a few other "googled" that have the same problem. Tried a SUSE forum I found. Here is my post: http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.ph...st=0entry1373 They only have 300 or so members there but it seems nice. B) A note: it worked for me when I did the ftp install, until I updated via YOW. Then it just stopped working. >> In the end , as stated somewhere on this board it was mostly just llike Mandrake with different tools.

after my install of SuSE when I clicked the 'Local Network" icon I got a "libsmbclient error". I booted to MDK and make the exact icon/link, worked like a charm. I can mount a smbfs or ping any computer,but when I typr "smb:/" in konqueror I get the error. (also in nautilus) Whem I upgrade to GNOME2.4 via apt4rpm my system became very unstabel. Still tryin it though. Anyone else?

First did you check the md5sum of the .iso file? Or is it a purchased CD?. At first look it sounds like the first cd my be bad. Did it ever work good? Is it a stock MDK kernel or did you compile your own?

Did it ever get into a GUI screen? or just CLI? t first look it sounds like you didnt set up you card correct during the install. Did it test OK? Also tell me what card you have. Radeon what... GUI = Grafical usser interface CLI = Command line interface (DOS)

1. Do you have a firewall 2. Is it set up correct. 3. Are your DNS settings correct. 4. Can you ping google. 5. Dialup, DSL, Cable? 6. Do you have a router? New user or experienced?

Well I tried to install SuSE and could not get past disk 2. I downloaded it twice but still the .rpms appeard (on my downloads) to be labeled different. Something like shorthand. (IE foobillard1.2.4.rpm would appear as FOOBILL.rpm) It appears the all the packages in every disk that I downloaded the .rpm's are in UPPERCASE except disk #1. Well you can get a working system with disk #1. Just wondering if its me or if others had the problem. Thanks anyway for SuSE 9.0

I have modified my refresh rate by adding a "modeline" section in my XF86Config-4 file: in my XF86Config-4 - Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Generic" ModelName "Flat Panel 1280x1024" Option "CalcAlgorithm" "CheckDesktopGeometry" DisplaySize 320 240 HorizSync 31.5-67 VertRefresh 50-160 Modeline "1280x1024" 843.85 1280 1704 2720 4656 1024 1024 1032 1132 +hsync +vsync EndSection Notice the "modeline" part. Its sets my refresh to 160hz. You can get setting with a modline calculator. Try this one: http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/faq/vga...a2rgb/calc.html Hope it helps.

Thought so, Thanks Ill try it when I get home.

I have a buddy that gave me a DVD of a rock group's concert. He wants to be able to listen to their music from that DVD on a CD in his car. Any idea how to rip just the sound from a DVD ? Im not at home now, but I was thinking of trying DVD-RIP. I haven't used it in a while but I could kinda remember being able to change the quality of the sound. Maybe I could rip it. EDIT: I just noticed that this may belong in the "Software" section. Admins/Mods move if needed Thanks.

Ok went to Walden Books with my gift card today (and my 2 1/2 yr old boy) They did not have much in the way of Linux. "Learn Linux in 24hours" - Sorry I know Linux, just want to know to more. "Red Hat 9 exposed" - Sorry I don't use Red Hat "Learn Red Hat 9" - See above "Red Hat 9 unleashed" - See a pattern here? So I settled for the only non-newbie book there - Linux Server Hacks http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/059...7746624-3983218 So Far its cool B)

Thanks for the help. Also: Does anybody know if SuSE will become a American distro if the Novell buyout goes thru? If I went to a SuSE ftp site and download all data to make a local mirror for multiple home network installs how much data would I have to download? Fun thing is to find out the differences of each distro. For instance mozilla installed in MDK9.2 is usually found in /usr/lib directory. I found mozilla in the /opt directory in SuSE. I always add icons(gentoo) to the /usr/share/icons directory in MDK. In SuSE its found again somewhere in the /opt directory (IM at work now cant check where). Some more things about SuSE: It configured hdparm automatically acpi just works on first boot. It found my winmodem Im very familiar with apt-get / synaptic from messing around with Fedora. It works good but I just think that urpmi / gurpmi is just the best installer for .rpm's. I not at home so I cant tell you the exact files but this was weird: The very first time I start YOU (YAST) it said the OpenOffice had unmet dependencies that could not be fixed. I choose to ignore them. It worked fine so far. As some of you know apt-get does not like that. So after a apt-get -f install - OpenOffice was gone. If I goto YAST and reinstall it and try apt-get it will tell me about the unmet dependencies again. Like I said no big deal I use Abiword And If I really need a M$ file to be opened I have Office2000 on wine. So far SuSE rocks. and with the sites provided above Ill be busy for a while.

cyberjackle you are my hero :P Worked like a charm. I learned something today B) By the way this worked also: kdesu synaptic Thanks

I do have apt and its works great. I think it has something to do with .Xauthority synaptic works great if I log in as root :o Frankly Im scarred to death of logging in as root. Ill keep on it. Thanks for the links.

OK got apt-get install ok. I does wonders for dependencies. Funny thing is SuSE installed OpenOfffice with some unmet dependencies on first install. I had to remove it. Oh well I use abiword anyway. My new problem is this: linux:/ # synaptic Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 key (failed key comparison) (synaptic:16741): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Any one else have this? Did a google search on it. the SuSE finds were mostly german.

Well I tried just about all free major distro's that were free except SuSE. Today I did the Softwaree ftp download install. Let me say I am very impressed with this distro. To coin the american journalist term "shock and awe" Things I liked alot: Yast - top notch. May very well be better than Mandy's MCC. Very easy. acpi - Worked right on first boot. No configuring needed. Speed - This Distro is fast. I haven't seen this speed since my last bootstrap Software - As long as you don't mind the download - alot is there Some things that I need to learn or not so good 1. No MPlayer - or win32 codecs due to legal reasons. - I can see Fedora or Redhat not having it, but SuSE? 2. Yast is a good installer but like MDK I want to find and add "respositories". Frankly not sure if SuSe has a system like urpmi - apt-get - synaptic. 3. Applications - SuSe has alot of good stock apps that would come with a distro of the shelf. But so far I cant find the amount of .rpms that Mandy has. (PLF) The speed is great. For example. With my MDK9.2 system with services shut off and the "nice" used. the sound would skip and sound bad when playing NWN. With SuSE I could hear everything clear, and it ran much faster. I even could boost the graphic level up for a better game. Im going to give it a go for about a month for everyday use. Things that I need/miss: No root password (Im lazy) DVD-Rip RipperX A good SuSE forum - Ill stay here first cause something tells me others here use SuSE. Question: I think that Novell is an American company. If they buy SuSE would that make SuSE an American distro?

Your right about executing the script. Never thought about it that way. Question: Would you also have to download the file and: chmod +x [file] to make it executable? That would make it: Download & save file chmod +x [file] ./[file] to deliver the virus.