Hi,
I successfully booted OpenSuse 11.2 from DVD. But I could not configure my wireless internet connection. YAST said it couldn’t configure it because something else was controlling that (Network Manager? something like that)
How can I configure this.
Related issue. When booting from DVD is there a way to save configuration settings so I don’t have to start from scratch the next time I boot from DVD?
You should have a network icon click it to set up the connection. If that does not work say what wireless chip/card you are using here.
If you did a default install you will have a separate partition which is mounted in the file system as /home. When reintalling or installing a new OS just tell the installer NOT to format that partition and to mount it as /home. All your personal settings and data are always in home. Of course it is always best to backup before fooling around with partitions and such, just in case…
If you have significant usage of a Database type program you may want to tell it to save it’s data to a mount point like /home on a separate partition. For the same reasons. Or back the data before reinstalling. On a reinstall the root partition will be reformatted.
You say you booted successfully from DVD. Do you mean you installed?
Or do you mean (as the title of the thread says) that you booted the live CD (and did not do any install)?
In the last case (running a live CD) this means that the disks on the system are not used and thus nothing is written to disk, everything is in memory and thus lost on stopping the system.
new at this,does it work connecting to internet,do i burn to cd, and just what do i do step by step? again new at this and need help,and where do i download this boot disk and after downloading what next, very important, i am presently on a different computer than the one i would like to run the boot disc live cd on,but i need to burn cd from here and then run it on the one i really want it on,how do i go about this step by step? thanksd
first step:
especially the parts beginning with “How to Proceed - 1. After having
successfully downloaded the ISO image”
and, also, you would be very wise to read everything in the two
stickies in this forum
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/how-faq-forums/
which have a title including the words (read only) which just means
you can’t post to those threads, NOT that you only need to read but
not understand and follow…
those few steps will get you going…but, before you do anything else
you do need to make sure you have a good backup of all the music,
movies, letters, etc etc etc on your machine…not because what you
intend to do is dangerous, just because you should have that anyway
(because not having a backup IS dangerous…ask anyone who had a hard
drive failure, or a virus scramble their stuff…etc)…
oh, and by the way .-=welcome=-.
–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.0.11, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
1st I hope I am in the correct forum this time,new here and don’t see start a topic,etc
new to download opensuse wireless and need help please,will this work on windows?
and which do i choose for windows, confused as to which installation for windows open,kde,network,gnome?
which to choose? direct,bittorent,etc? unsure about what to do,i have utorrent but which is bestDirect?
my other issue is, this computer i am on is not the one i want to run the program on,i want to download and burn from this one and run after burning the cd on the one with no internet connection,so please how and what to do so i only run burned cd on the other one but just download and burn from here? i don’t want it to make any changes or run it on this one but on a different one,but i have to download and burn on this one cause i am connected to internet,please tell me what to do about this,once its done downloading,what exactly do i do so it just burn to cd,thanks,know this is alot but i am new to this,trying to learn
On 02/01/2011 08:06 PM, pumpkinslion wrote:
>
> 1st I hope I am in the correct forum this time,new here and don’t see
> start a topic,etc
> new to download opensuse wireless and need help please,will this work
> on windows?
> and which do i choose for windows, confused as to which installation
> for windows [open,kde,network,gnome?
> which to choose? direct,bittorent,etc? unsure about what to do,i have
> utorrent but which is bestDirect?
> my other issue is, this computer i am on is not the one i want to run
> the program on,i want to download and burn from this one and run after
> burning the cd on the one with no internet connection,so please how and
> what to do so i only run burned cd on the other one but just download
> and burn from here? i don’t want it to make any changes or run it on
> this one but on a different one,but i have to download and burn on this
> one cause i am connected to internet,please tell me what to do about
> this,once its done downloading,what exactly do i do so it just burn to
> cd,thanks,know this is alot but i am new to this,trying to learn
>
>
have you read my reply to your earlier post? (it is just up there a
little)…
i would suggest you pick the direct link, 32 bit PC and then the Live
KDE CD…i say KDE because it is what most folks here use, and want…
HOWEVER, you have not said what the other computer is, how much ram,
etc…you need 1 GB of RAM and a modern processor… if you don’t have
that you probably ought to get the Gnome Live CD…
once it is downloaded check and make sure the iso is good (before you
burn it to disk–follow the instruction on how to do that under
“Verify your download”)
then burn it to CD disk at the lowest speed your burner will burn
at…follow the instructions under “How to Proceed”
when you have the disk take it to the other machine and boot from it
and run from the CD…
openSUSE is not really a distribution ready made to run on
non-internet connected machines, so i wouldn’t advise you to try to
install from the CD and many of the packages you might want are not
included on the CD and are downloaded during install…
but, the Live CD is a pretty good way to learn if you like it…
if you must install and run on a non-internet machine you are probably
best advised to download the DVD…but its is over 4GB and will take
a good while to download via wireless…
good luck…keep your questions in the forum, no need to ask
individuals in Private Messages, they usually will just send you back
to the forum…
and, next time DO start your own thread…to do that just go to the
‘front page’ of the forums, here: http://forums.opensuse.org/ and pick
the help forum you want to post to, like install/boot/login and click
on that…then to post begin a new thread just click the big blue
button saying “+Post New Thread” near the top of the page, on the left
side…
oh, and if english is not your first language, then on that forum
front page scroll down, maybe there is a forum in your own lingo!!
…-=welcome=-.
–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.0.11, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
I think you are in the right forum, but I also think you should post a new thread (topic) since otherwise you would steal the original starter’s problem.
For doing that: go here and click on the big button on the left side up called “Post New Thread” (thread is same as topic).
OpenSUSE is not a software that will be installed and run / work on windows. Itself it is an operating system. It can replace Windows.
Please see: Linux - Wikipedia and openSUSE - Wikipedia
See the answer up. Read the links DenverD gave you.
short answer: OpenSUSE is the operating system (see Operating system - Wikipedia ), KDE, GNOME are features for it, network - is a small package that will download from the internet the rest of the packages to install (not for you, I see you have no internet on the computer you want to install openSUSE)
It’s just a matter of choice.
Read: SDB:Download help - openSUSE
From your post I understand that you do not know A LOT of things and the best method of learning is by starting to read… Take your time to read the links above and the rest given to you.
What you download is an ISO image of a disk which you need to burn / write on a media (DVD / CD) and boot from.
See SDB:Download help - openSUSE
Finally, if you want to play around I suggest you download a LIVE version (KDE live or GNOME live ) - it means you do not need to install it on your PC, just boot from it (do you know how to boot your computer from a CD / DVD?) and see if you like it.
Cheers.
PS
Maybe a mod could move this to a new thread?