Re: [opensuse] New install questions
You will get a lot of opinions here on this point. The nice thing about opinions are we all have one. I would go with a raid 1, partition it with swap, / and /home, and since you have space, maybe a backup partition for versioned backups (only if needed). If you go into the expert mode during install, it is quite easy to install to software raid 1. Caveats, make sure Grub is installed to MBR of the BIOS boot disk. Other than that, it is quite straight forward. To be able to boot from either disk, look for RAID+GRUB.html howto.
I also have a question about the 15 in 1 reader: does 10.3 find and work with card readers?
Yes, quite well.
I have gotten everything up and running in 10.3 :) I still have a question about the card readers. I see no way to access the 15-in-1 card reader. Looked in /media and /mnt, nothing in regards to crad reader. I then took an old smartmedia card and inserted it into the PC. Nothing pops-up on the PC so how do i access the media inserted into the card reader? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Chris Arnold
I have gotten everything up and running in 10.3 :)
I still have a question about the card readers. I see no way to access the 15-in-1 card reader. Looked in /media and /mnt, nothing in regards to crad reader. I then took an old smartmedia card and inserted it into the PC. Nothing pops-up on the PC so how do i access the media inserted into the card reader?
You don't indicate which windowmanager and it makes a difference. KDE/ Gnome should "pop" up, for others look at ivman and pmount/pumount. Both are available packaged for openSUSE. *and* open /media and see if perhaps your card appears automagically. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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You will get a lot of opinions here on this point. The nice thing about opinions are we all have one. I would go with a raid 1, partition it with swap, / and /home, and since you have space, maybe a backup partition for versioned backups (only if needed). If you go into the expert mode during install, it is quite easy to install to software raid 1. Caveats, make sure Grub is installed to MBR of the BIOS boot disk. Other than that, it is quite straight forward. To be able to boot from either disk, look for RAID+GRUB.html howto.
I also have a question about the 15 in 1 reader: does 10.3 find and work with card readers?
Yes, quite well.
I have gotten everything up and running in 10.3 :) I still have a question about the card readers. I see no way to access the 15-in-1 card reader. Looked in /media and /mnt, nothing in regards to crad reader. I then took an old smartmedia card and inserted it into the PC. Nothing pops-up on the PC so how do i access the media inserted into the card reader?
Insert the card and then run dmesg and near the end you should info on the card and any partitions it might contain. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Chris Arnold wrote:
I have gotten everything up and running in 10.3 :) I still have a question about the card readers. I see no way to access the 15-in-1 card reader. Looked in /media and /mnt, nothing in regards to crad reader. I then took an old smartmedia card and inserted it into the PC. Nothing pops-up on the PC so how do i access the media inserted into the card reader?
There are some card-reader that simply will not work. I have one in my Toshiba laptop. Even though you may see the Bus ID, etc.. in dmesg, that doesn't mean that there is automatically a driver that will talk to what is at the other end of the bus. You can usually google the card type and and I.D. string and get a status for whether a driver exists. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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