C said the following on 03/02/2010 08:04 AM:
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 13:20, Anton Aylward
wrote: There's a lot I don't know about openSuse, and I often find the openSuse.org site confusing and difficult to search, so I do appreciate it when people here give me pointers there. I also find the archives of this list useful :-) But I would have thought looking in "yast -> software installation" to be so obvious.... Apart from "grep", "find" and "apropos" its the search failityI use most often on my machine.
Sometimes the trick is knowing what you're looking for. Something that's rather hard to do when you're new to openSUSE or Linux :-P If you know what you want, then the openSUSE site isn't too bad for finding that 1-Click link or whatever. If you don't know your search terms though... it's a challenge to say the least.
Its not that 1-click kind of stuff I have problems with, not 'terms' as such but concepts and expressions. Right now I'm trying to find out how to move /boot to another partition and make it work. I have questions like ... The screen at "yast -> System -> Boot Loader Settings", tab "Boot loader Installation" has a number of check-off boxes [ ] Boot from Master Boot Record [ ] Boot from Root partition [ ] Boot from Boot partition [ ] Boot from Extended partition [ ] Custom Boot partition When I installed I had /boot in a regular partition and /root in an extended partition. I'm trying to set up a new /boot partition as regular partition. But ... but ... but Firstly, why are these check boxes? You can only boot from one place at a time. What if you check them all off? That doesn't make sense to me. My original installation put the /root in an extended partition. Would I have to check BOTH boxes to boot from that? If I use the Custom box to specify my newly created partition do I have to copy all of the old /boot over to the new partition? what about changing its mount? No, that can't be right, the old /boot/grub/menu.lst specified root (hd0,5) all over the place. I *think* that means the first partition in the extended partition, the extended being counted as #4 - yes I found that in the documentation. But ... but ... but .. My installation doesn't have both the "Boot from Boot partition" and the "Boot from Extended partition" checked, only the "Boot from Boot partition" -- even though its IN the Extended partition. So, help me here. What search terms *should* I be using? Are you saying that there's a 1-click for all of this? I don't think so. Oh, and when will openSuse move to Grub2 ? -- Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. Gail Godwin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org