Hi, I have the OpenSuse 10.2 DVD from Linux Format magazine. I was going to install it in a dual-boot arrangement with XP. However, based on what I have read, during the installation, it asks you to choose your desktop (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, or whatever). While I don't have any distribution installed at present, previous installations allowed you to choose the desktop you wanted to use when you booted. Is there a way to install all available desktops/windows managers and then choose the one you want to use when you boot? Many thanks in advance. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 11:23 -0400, RTF wrote:
Hi,
I have the OpenSuse 10.2 DVD from Linux Format magazine. I was going to install it in a dual-boot arrangement with XP. However, based on what I have read, during the installation, it asks you to choose your desktop (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, or whatever). While I don't have any distribution installed at present, previous installations allowed you to choose the desktop you wanted to use when you booted.
Is there a way to install all available desktops/windows managers and then choose the one you want to use when you boot?
Many thanks in advance.
Rob
During the install process you have the ability to custom select which software packages to install. This is where you select additional desktops to install. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 27 May 2007 08:23, RTF wrote:
Hi,
I have the OpenSuse 10.2 DVD from Linux Format magazine. I was going to install it in a dual-boot arrangement with XP. However, based on what I have read, during the installation, it asks you to choose your desktop (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, or whatever). While I don't have any distribution installed at present, previous installations allowed you to choose the desktop you wanted to use when you booted.
Is there a way to install all available desktops/windows managers and then choose the one you want to use when you boot?
Yes. After installing the desktop environments you want, as Kenneth indicated, you can make a choice of which to activate on each login. The default, of course, is to repeat the one you used most recently.
Many thanks in advance.
Rob
Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Thanks Kenneth and Randall. One more question. Will it overwrite the MBR? I have Partition Magic installed along with Boot Magic and I'm wondering how an installation will affect the boot record... Many thanks in advance. Best Regards, Rob Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Sunday 27 May 2007 08:23, RTF wrote:
Hi,
I have the OpenSuse 10.2 DVD from Linux Format magazine. I was going to install it in a dual-boot arrangement with XP. However, based on what I have read, during the installation, it asks you to choose your desktop (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, or whatever). While I don't have any distribution installed at present, previous installations allowed you to choose the desktop you wanted to use when you booted.
Is there a way to install all available desktops/windows managers and then choose the one you want to use when you boot?
Yes. After installing the desktop environments you want, as Kenneth indicated, you can make a choice of which to activate on each login. The default, of course, is to repeat the one you used most recently.
Many thanks in advance.
Rob
Randall Schulz
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 27 May 2007 10:24, RTF wrote:
Thanks Kenneth and Randall. One more question. Will it overwrite the MBR? I have Partition Magic installed along with Boot Magic and I'm wondering how an installation will affect the boot record...
Many thanks in advance.
Best Regards, Rob
The Windows installer is written to take over and replace the MBR entirely, only recognizing the existence of Windows installations. The Linux installer (SuSE's, anyway) will integrate existing boot information into the MBR it writes, giving you the option to boot any of the systems that existed before it was installed in addition to the newly installed system. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
RTF wrote:
Thanks Kenneth and Randall. One more question. Will it overwrite the MBR? I have Partition Magic installed along with Boot Magic and I'm wondering how an installation will affect the boot record...
You have to pick the Advanced option when you do your install, and there you can choose whether to overwrite the MBR or not. Obviously, you would choose not to. I missed this option the first time through, and had to reinstall my boot manager (BootIT NG in this case) which isn't really that much of a problem. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
RTF wrote:
Hi,
I have the OpenSuse 10.2 DVD from Linux Format magazine. I was going to install it in a dual-boot arrangement with XP. However, based on what I have read, during the installation, it asks you to choose your desktop (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, or whatever). While I don't have any distribution installed at present, previous installations allowed you to choose the desktop you wanted to use when you booted. Is there a way to install all available desktops/windows managers and then choose the one you want to use when you boot?
You can install as many desktops as you wish, after the install and then chose the one you wish to use, when you log in. In fact, you can log in to more than once and have a different desktop on each one at the same time. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
James Knott wrote:
RTF wrote:
Hi,
I have the OpenSuse 10.2 DVD from Linux Format magazine. I was going to install it in a dual-boot arrangement with XP. However, based on what I have read, during the installation, it asks you to choose your desktop (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, or whatever). While I don't have any distribution installed at present, previous installations allowed you to choose the desktop you wanted to use when you booted. Is there a way to install all available desktops/windows managers and then choose the one you want to use when you boot /*You can install as many desktops as you wish, after the install*/ and then chose the one you wish to use, when you log in. In fact, you can log in to more than once and have a different desktop on each one at the same time.
Can you let me know how to do that (bolded and italicized above). I attempted to install Suse 10.2 again tonight and it makes you select which desktop you want to install...Gnome, KDE or other. It does not give you a choice of installing all in order to choose which one you want to use at boot up.. :( Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
RTF wrote:
Hi,
I have the OpenSuse 10.2 DVD from Linux Format magazine. I was going to install it in a dual-boot arrangement with XP. However, based on what I have read, during the installation, it asks you to choose your desktop (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, or whatever). While I don't have any distribution installed at present, previous installations allowed you to choose the desktop you wanted to use when you booted. Is there a way to install all available desktops/windows managers and then choose the one you want to use when you boot /*You can install as many desktops as you wish, after the install*/ and
Go into expert mode or custom or something alike and just chose all the desktop packages then when it boots to X you can pick any WM you would like. If I have the space I usually just install the whole shebang, but you can chose each package individually... Check this out http://news.softpedia.com/news/openSUSE-10-2-Installation-Guide-42068.shtml -----Original Message----- From: RTF [mailto:robfleet@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 9:47 PM To: James Knott Cc: SuSE Linux Subject: Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.2 James Knott wrote: then
chose the one you wish to use, when you log in. In fact, you can log in to more than once and have a different desktop on each one at the same time.
Can you let me know how to do that (bolded and italicized above). I attempted to install Suse 10.2 again tonight and it makes you select which desktop you want to install...Gnome, KDE or other. It does not give you a choice of installing all in order to choose which one you want to use at boot up.. :( Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Can you let me know how to do that (bolded and italicized above). I attempted to install Suse 10.2 again tonight and it makes you select which desktop you want to install...Gnome, KDE or other. It does not give you a choice of installing all in order to choose which one you want to use at boot up.. :(
Rob
After the install, you can use YAST > Software Management. In the filter box, select Patterns Look in the section Graphical Environments. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
RTF wrote:
James Knott wrote:
RTF wrote:
Hi,
I have the OpenSuse 10.2 DVD from Linux Format magazine. I was going to install it in a dual-boot arrangement with XP. However, based on what I have read, during the installation, it asks you to choose your desktop (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, or whatever). While I don't have any distribution installed at present, previous installations allowed you to choose the desktop you wanted to use when you booted. Is there a way to install all available desktops/windows managers and then choose the one you want to use when you boot /*You can install as many desktops as you wish, after the install*/ and then chose the one you wish to use, when you log in. In fact, you can log in to more than once and have a different desktop on each one at the same time.
Can you let me know how to do that (bolded and italicized above). I attempted to install Suse 10.2 again tonight and it makes you select which desktop you want to install...Gnome, KDE or other. It does not give you a choice of installing all in order to choose which one you want to use at boot up.. :(
Sure it does, you just have to pay attention - You can install multiple desktop environments during the initial OS install, or just as easily install them afterwards via the yast software management GUI. It's all very straightforward and the choice is yours. If you wish to install more than one desktop environment during the initial OS install, just enable the detailed package selection, and then check both gnome and kde, and search for others such as xfce, icewm, whatever, and select them all. I've never had any problem selecting from among e.g. gnome, kde, xfce, e17, icewm, blackbox, etc etc at login time. BTW you do *not* need to decide a GUI at boot, that's something you decide when you are loggin in. After all, linux being a multi-user OS, how could different users be logged into their wm of choice, if they had to reboot the server to pick a desktop environment? Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 27 August 2007 02:46, RTF wrote:
James Knott wrote:
RTF wrote:
Hi,
I have the OpenSuse 10.2 DVD from Linux Format magazine. I was going to install it in a dual-boot arrangement with XP. However, based on what I have read, during the installation, it asks you to choose your desktop (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, or whatever). While I don't have any distribution installed at present, previous installations allowed you to choose the desktop you wanted to use when you booted. Is there a way to install all available desktops/windows managers and then choose the one you want to use when you boot /*You can install as many desktops as you wish, after the install*/ and then
chose the one you wish to use, when you log in. In fact, you can log in to more than once and have a different desktop on each one at the same time.
Can you let me know how to do that (bolded and italicized above). I attempted to install Suse 10.2 again tonight and it makes you select which desktop you want to install...Gnome, KDE or other. It does not give you a choice of installing all in order to choose which one you want to use at boot up.. :(
You don't need to choose a desktop at boot up. Install the system, and then you can install any desktop you want and provide for it to be available from a desktop login screen. There's no need to reboot.
Rob
-- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: 0161 834 7961 Fax: 0161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
RTF wrote:
Hi,
I have the OpenSuse 10.2 DVD from Linux Format magazine. I was going to install it in a dual-boot arrangement with XP. However, based on what I have read, during the installation, it asks you to choose your desktop (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, or whatever). While I don't have any distribution installed at present, previous installations allowed you to choose the desktop you wanted to use when you booted. Is there a way to install all available desktops/windows managers and then choose the one you want to use when you boot?
As mentioned, you can pick other packages to install, and there you would install KDE & XFCE (say, if you picked GNOME). Use Patterns to pick the extra desktop environments. If the installer doesn't have that option, then I would just install one of them, and then use YaST to pick the others, as the Patterns way is very nice, and gets you everything you need. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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