Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
I have just upgraded my linux machines to 9.3 via new installation and have several questions/problems.
During boot there is a SuSE Norvell banner across the bottom of the screen that I find rather annoying. Kind of silly, but how do I get rid of it?
Try # $man mkinitrd You can get rid of the splash screen or even make your own one. In 9.1 they're in /etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/images; so I imagine they're somewhere similar in 9.3.
I replaced hda with a 120GB HD to have a printine machine for the new installation, but the installer only found 110.8GB. What happened to the missing 9.2GB?
Probably not missing. My 80 Gb HD has physically only 76 Gb or so. AFAICT the manufacturers count a Gigabyte as 1000^3 bytes rather than 2^30 bytes; so you lose about 7%. This has been going on for as long as I can remember.
Of a more serious nature is the fact that I have three hard drives on the tower machine. The fstab shows the following:
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hdb2 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdc1 /data2 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
When I installed v9.0 the installer found /dev/hdb3 which is formatted as a reiser file system and a number of vfat partitions which were also on hdb. Now, I didn't touch either hdb or hdc so how do I access those drives and partitions?
Mount them. You can mount them temporarily as root with (say) # mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt If you want them more permanently, you'll need to create your own mount points (empty directories somewhere in the filesystem) and put suitable entries in /etc/fstab. Generally I make my own entries and more or less copy existing entries, but you may be able to do this within YaST (System > Partitioner?) -- JDL