On 5/4/21 8:06 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 04/05/2021 14.02, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <> [05-04-21 07:46]:
On 04/05/2021 03.27, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On 5/3/21 8:31 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 04/05/2021 01.24, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On 4/30/21 5:48 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 30/04/2021 08.28, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On 4/29/21 5:57 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:


Will install a new TW system on the computer as soon as
possible. I would like to know how to set the install routine
to make /boot and /home partitions so if this happens again I
may have a slightly better chance of recovery. Do I
use GParted to make partitions first, or what? Tried that when I
installed the old system, but it didn't work. Please advise.

Our advice will always be to forget Tumbleweed and use Leap. How
many times have you reinstalled TW?
Twice--once in 2019 once in 2020--that's the one that crashed. I
installed Leap once. It does not have all the apps
available as TW does, and it lasted only a couple of months and crashed

and burned, and I hardly even used it. Put
Mageia on the box. Not as capable as TW, but nearly.

Leap has *everything*, but maybe in a different place than TW.
  possibly, but a real stretch to declare it.  it more than likely does not
as some package *only* for Tumbleweed.

And others are available only on Leap :-)


but no one knows what Doug will want to install next nor where he will
obtain the package(s).

Right. He has problems understanding repositories.
You're right. I understand exactly what repositories are and what they're used for.
What I don't understand are these two things:
    1. How to determine what apps are in what repository
    2. How to download an app that I want to use from the repository found in step 1.
I probably have found and installed rpms for apps that might actually be available in one of the OS repositories.

If there is a "user manual" for OpenSUSE, I'd like to know and if so, I want it.
--doug