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vic wrote:
Tom Schaefer wrote:
phillip mannie wrote:
Thanks to everyone for your ideas and advice...I did the deed and thought a report might be at least mildly interesting as I chose to use YaST.
In retrospect, I believe that fdisk, mke2fs, edit /etc/fstab would be the ideal way to proceed, as Michael and Tom suggested.
Open systems - or even a character based tool to just "get it done" and report the results.[...]
(if any) unexpected stuff might occur.
Start with the man pages ... and the SuSE web/html based help pages are a good resource too ...
-tks-
-- I can understand the benefit of having barebones control over system operation, yet, it is also important for newbies to get into the operational(functional) level of Linux as soon as possible, and the automated setup techniques are a great way to get up and running with a minimal amount of doc flood and without having to start out with "a Master of Computer Science degree", as my wintel/net-geek college put it when on a discussion about setting up Linux.There will (I guess)be many opportunities in the future for gaining perception down to the machine level of exactly what is going on ... --
True .. very true ... it should not require a "pilot's license" to install Linux, and thanks to distributors like SuSE, we can all enjoy a great deal of automation - which definitely helps the newbie. The ability to get in and fix things with a simple text editor has great appeal to me, something you can't really do in the Microsloth world any more. I pray the Linux community doesn't try to imitate the Windows Registry, and all the problems it adds. My credo is simple, "SIMPLIFY", i.e. if things can be done simply, then that should be the rule. Over-engineering irritates and annoys me. Some examples of over-engineering include the RPM system. Invoking RPM commands is still not as simple as it could be with simple shell scripts! In some ways, the GNU configure system is better, but since I'm not an expert on either, I am subject to what ever is being implemented. It looks like the RPM system is becoming the defacto standard in the Linux community. -tks- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e