You're correct that using special setup tools take away much of the learning experience by insulating the user from the system configuration, but you don't have to use them. You can turn off SuSEconfig so that it doesn't run. Also, SuSEconfig alerts me when I manually change a file that it normally sets up and leaves it alone. Right now the only activities I use yast for are installation of multiple rpms, setup of apsfilter (which doesn't need yast to work anyway), and setting up X (ditto comment). Other than that I muck around in the files, because that's how the HOWTOS are written. As for the post by Rihmez, I never even knew yast could set up one's cd-rom drive. Is this new in 5.3? All one has to do is read a the mount manage, check out their existing /etc/fstab, and ask a few questions here and you're in business! Mark --- zens wrote:
<MY VALUE="$0.02"> just a quick observation, I dont know anything about the yast admin tool suse being one of the few linux distributions I havent run yet (*cough*still waiting for my copy of 5.3 to arrive*cough*) , but one thing I have noticed about admin tools in general is that they take away from the learning expierence, and make people too dependant on them to take the time to learn how to do things the "hard way"... regarding this particular situation, I dont know what yast is supposed to do with the cdrom, so I wont even attempt to determine the root of the problem, but can it really be more difficult than typing "mount /dev/cdrom" (assuming you have the corresponding entry in your /etc/fstab, mabye since I dont know what functionality yast plays with the cdrom I am stepping out of bounds, but it really couldnt be *that* much of a timesaver could it? </MY>
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