On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Nadeem Hasan wrote: nh> This would be like mounting a picture upside down and nh> then standing upside down to view it. Isn't it? nh> Not really, I came from slackware and didn't understand the purpose of the /opt directory so I did exactly whats shown below. Even today, while I understand the purpose of the /opt directory, I still do it as I would prefer to have all those packages as well as my installed packages (source compiled packages) in /usr/local, that and the fact that I have a seperate partition for it all. All depends on what your comfortable with I guess :) nh> Rocky McGaugh wrote: nh> > nh> > nh> > three steps for sucess: nh> > nh> > #1 install SuSE nh> > #2 mv /opt/* /usr/local/ nh> > #3 rm -r /opt; ln -s /usr/local /opt nh> > nh> > or something like that..:) nh> > nh> -- nh> Nadeem :) nh> http://www.nadmm.com/ nh> nh> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v6.3+ - Kernel 2.2.14 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/