The Wednesday 2004-03-17 at 17:27 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
/usr/share/doc//howto/en/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.gz Tnx Carlos...but....
1. I only have /usr/share/doc/packages /usr/share/doc/release-notes
Then install it. From where? Find it. How? Using pin (pin Hard-Disk-Upgrade.gz): ./CD1/suse/noarch/howto-2003.3.9-1.noarch.rpm: -rw-r--r-- root root 7257 Aug 21 2000 /usr/share/doc/howto/en/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.gz ./CD1/suse/noarch/howtofr-2003.3.9-1.noarch.rpm: -rw-r--r-- root root 6995 Jun 23 1998 /usr/share/doc/howto/fr/a-jour/mini/text/Hard-disk-upgra Ie, you need to install the howto*rpm in the language of your choice - mostly, english or english - yes, you can also choose english? Did I say eng... Right, I shut up :-p Jokes aside, the fact is that only a few are translated. But there is a huge amount of documentation there.
If the .gz is indeed what would help me then a. Please tell me how to install it off the SuSE 9.0 CD's
Yast, as any other rpm.
b. How do I unzip a .gz using linux. This is an old Windows user who cut hi teeth on Win 3.11.
And me with even older msdos 3.2. If you were used to dos command line, the linux one is not so diferent. gunzip/gunzip. But you do not need to decompress those files: they are directly read with less (or zless). Or you can navigate and read the howtos with mc - midnight comander, a norton comander clone.
2. I do not need to 'upgrade' the HDD, merely make a copy of parts of it onto a another HDD, for safety.
I know, but the needed concepts you are asking about are very well explained there. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson