Newbie on board.

[HibbeeBoy]

I am about to step into the Linux world. I bought SuSE Linux at CompUSA and I am getting ready to intall it. Having read some of the documentation I am a bit intimidated with the partitioning.
If Linux works well I would plan on implementing for the whole organisation, about 35 to 40 PCs/laptops.Just ditch M$ off the desktop, wouldn't that be nice ?!

[RudeCat7]

RULE#1:

Be prepared to do a clean reinstall of any OS at any time. Don't be a slave to your PC.

RULE#2:

Don't be afraid! Cause you backed up your shit anyway, right?

(I hate it when people don't back up their shit!)

For your first Suse install, just accept the default partitioning, no mess, no fuss.

RULE#3:

Have Fun!  

[rtgwbmsr]

If you need help, PM me, and check out this thread:
http://forum.fuckmicrosoft.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=13&t=000057

A lot of it is Mandrake-oriented, but some of the partitioning stuff is for all of the linux OSes.

Have Phun!

[jtpenrod]

To Hibbee Boy:

Keep these web sites handy:

Linux Newbie

Linux Documentation Project

There's a great deal of information available that will prove most helpful. Winderz SUX, Linux RULEZ
_______________________________________

Computers are like air conditioners: they can't do their jobs if you open windows.

[rtgwbmsr]

'Bout them laptops:
Go to www.linux-laptop.net for information about support for onboard components etc.

Oddly, when I tried, the site was down. It should be back up soon...

[Crunchy(Cracked)Butter]

I had SuSE 7.3 on my laptop, it had a SIS 630 chipset, it found the sound but the video display only worked properly if i booted the system with a disk, i couldn't even configure it to work at the proper res unless i booted with a disk.

Anyway, i had been looking at the 8.1 release and from the hardware page it seems that 630 chip is still a bit fucked so i don't think i will go the SuSE route, instead mandrake supports it after editing some damn command line i dunno.  Suppose i will know once i buy it.

[HibbeeBoy]

Well, I did it. Installed on my Dell at home and it was easy peasy.
I haven't done much with it yet. A couple of problems though, didn't have a driver for my soundcard which is a TBS II Montego (Turtle Bay something) and none of the CD Players recognise the CD ROM. Do I have to mount or configure this in someway ?
Next I will try and persuade the Corporate guys to deploy Linux and get rid of M$ altogether.

[ October 14, 2002: Message edited by: HibbeeBoy ]

[TheQuirk]

mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

The F.A.Q has alot of stuff about mounting. See /etc/fstab, the mount command, and some other one that I don't remember.. Link is in my sig!

[mobrien_12]

I believe your sound card has an Aureal chipset.  Aureal was developing Linux open source drivers but went bankrupt.  

Others have taken up  working on the drivers.  You can give them a shot if you want.

Go to http://aureal.sourceforge.net

[HibbeeBoy]

Thanks for the links. I did check out the links and it's a bit hit and miss if it will be supported. It does use the Aureal chipset right enough. I am prepared to install another soundcard if I have to. Hell, I'm prepared to chew my right arm off to get out of the M$ trap !

[HibbeeBoy]

Well, I am having a fine old time of it I must say. This Linux stuff is pretty damn good. However I have still not managed an internet connection. I think the problem is my years of Windows way of thinking. So, can anybody point me in the right direction ? I am using YsST2 in SuSe to configure the modem on my Dell but how do I test if the modem is even getting a dial tone and how do I configure Konqerer and e-mail to use that particular dial up connection/configuration ? I will be trawling the SuSe web site for info but just wondered if anybody could help.

[Calum]

if you are using kde then there is an easy way to sort out your modem, i am assuming you mean a dialup modem, yes?

go and either open a terminal, or go to the start menu and select 'run command', then type in 'kppp', this brings up a dialogue box which is incredibly similar to the add new connection wizard in windows. This kppp program is a graphical frontend for 'ppp' so if you have any problems with it, open a terminal and type 'man ppp' for some enthralling bedtime reading.

[HibbeeBoy]

Ah, magic. Yes it's a dial up modem. Thanks for your help I'll try it tonight. The wife is getting a bit fed up with me dicking around on the PC and the bairn can't play her games while I'm on it but it's good fun. Once I get the sound card configured and internet connection I'm off to the races !
Thanks for your help, I don't care what everybody else says about you, you're not that bad        

PS. Hibees are back !

[DJ]

Hey sorry to bring this up again everyone but I plan on partition my HD and installing Mandrake on my 2nd PC this weekend These are the new download options;

Download: Mandrake 9.0/i586 | Mandrake 9.0/i586 ISO Image | Mandrake 7.1/SPARC/UltraSPARC ISO Image | Mandrake 7.1/AXP ISO Image | Mandrake 7.0/i486 ISO Image | Mandrake IA64 | Mandrake 8.2/PPC |  | MandrakeSecurity Single Network Firewall

Do I want to go for the 9.0 ISO or not?

Also what do the Linux gurus here think about redhat?

DJ

[ October 16, 2002: Message edited by: Engineer ]

[RudeCat7]

I'm curious about Mandrake too, I've never actually run that distro.

But I do have an opinion about Redhat 8.0..IMHO
Personally, I think it will be better with the next release.I was kinda surprised that they would release a distro that required a patch for xmms to play mp3z. Then, there is a tiny bug in Mozilla, in the address bar, if you right click, so you can select all, the menu disappears, and then refuses to come back up again. You have to use the main menu to "select all".
I've noticed also, that sometimes, a warning will pop up that "such and such" daemon is slowing down other processes.."do you want to close it?" this seems bizarre to me.
I'm going to keep using it though, until I learn to patch the kernel, and install modules. Then I'm gonna move on to Slackware fulltime. Mostly, I'm disappointed because 8.0 doesn't include the HP backends to support my 5100c scanner, which does work in Suse, but Suse comes with these backends preinstalled. They are a real pain in the arse to install right now.

Those are my bugs, but I still think it is cool.

[ October 16, 2002: Message edited by: RudeCat7 ]