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Be aware that you need to follow and understand how to direct all openSUSE installation actions to the external hard drive. Failure to follow all instructions may cause modifications to your internal hard drive, defeating the purpose of this written procedure and modifying your main OS installation.

Please read through this procedure more than once to insure full understanding before trying this on your PC.

This write up is written to assist in installing openSUSE, ...

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SysdCmd is a bash script intended to be used in openSUSE and tested with openSUSE version 12.3. I have included all of the features I feel openSUSE users will likely want in a bash script intended to help you learn how to use and work with systemd. SysdCmd will install the following standard openSUSE packages: systemd-ui, systemd-analyze and graphviz all of which will require root user access. The ...

So I am no expert on desktop remote control, but I just used VNC/Krfb to remote an openSUSE 12.3 KDE desktop to an openSUSE 12.2 PC running VNC/Remmina and it worked just fine. This came from a message post I had made in the forum, but I thought it was worth sharing here in a blog post.

On the openSUSE 12.3 I did three things:

1) Enabled Services in Firewall for VNC:



2) I enabled ...

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I have written a new tool to Setup and Configure Samba which should work on all present supported versions of openSUSE and specifically to work with the new openSUSE 12.3 release.



S.A.C.T. supports the complete and automatic configuration of Samba for use by anyone not familiar with just how to setup Samba ...

Here is some basic information and advice about creating partitions when you install openSUSE:

Master Boot Record Partitioned Hard Disks:

openSUSE does not want to remove anything from your system when you first try to install it and if you want the whole thing to be openSUSE, you might consider downloading the KDE LiveCD or GNOME LiveCD from here:software.opensuse.org: Download openSUSE 12.2, boot from the LiveCD and make sure it works as you wish. Then, you can ...