Dave Howorth wrote:
Cornelius Franken wrote:
Hi Guys
This might seem like very basic questions to ask but I need to know.
1) When I installed Linux on my new 160 GB hard drive it created 2 partitions. One is a 20 GB "system" partition also referred to as the swap partition. The other 140 GB is used for the users on my System. Am I correct with this assumption?
Almost certainly not in detail (swap and system are different things), though you're likely broadly right.
2) I have a DVD drive but I can't figure out how to access it from the CLI. I know in Linux all devices is perceived as a file. So I assume accessing it would be something like cd /drives/dvdrom?
Perhaps, but that's not how it's done in opensuse. Look in /media
3) Ok I read a lot of things about mounting drives. Mounting a drive makes it part of the directory structure if I am right. So if I insert a DVD rom I need to mount it first before I can access it? If this is not the case what do I need the mounting bit for?
It's done automatically. You need to do mounting in some other circumstances.
4) I am busy with a pet project. Basically I am converting all my CD, DVD and other personal content such as photos, legal documents to electronic format and using a LAMP setup to allow me to access this information anywhere in the world. My main problem is that my Music collection alone is about 75GB and from what I understand MySQL will create its data file somewhere on my system partition. How to I create MySQL data files under another directory as my swap partition wont be able to handle this data.
5) What is the equivalent of the M$ program files directory in Linux?
Very basic questions I know but then I need to learn and asking is the only way.
Well, there's another way to learn that is often better - reading. It seems you've been reading some generic documentation but not the opensuse manuals that answer all these questions.
The manuals, and other useful documentation, can be found here:
<http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse103/> <http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation>
There is also more documentation stored here: /usr/share/doc/FHS << Filesystem Hierarchy Standard -- Tells where things are supposed to be located. /usr/share/doc/ /usr/share/doc/packages /usr/share/doc/howto /usr/share/doc/Books /usr/share/doc/selfhtml /usr/share/doc/selflinux /usr/share/doc/release-notes And go into yast-> software management. Then, in the upper left hand corner, click on the pull-down menu which is on Patterns and change it to Package Groups From there, Go to the section labeld Documentation, and install all of it. Then, search through all of the other sections, and for every application package that you see installed, select the corresponding "-doc" package, too. (Some packages have documentation as seperate packages, which allows documentation to be stored on one central machine, and the rest can access those documents through NFS -- Network Filesystem)
Cheers, Dave
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