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open SUSE problems...

13 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/open-suse-problems.68101/

Dark Star
Dark Star Original post #1
Sep 13, 2007 at 9:17 PM
Hey All
Just shifted to open Suse :p way lighter than Ubuntu but the problem am facing ..

  1. Hard Drive partition are not mounted except the file system :p:mad: Also Opening File System Open System Moniter :(
  2. Cannot change resolution 1280 x 1024 after doing that my moniter goes out of frequency :eek: Not the case with any other distros :confused:
  3. How to install codec :shock:
Regards rest later won't explore Suse much just for my sister daily work and to listen a bit music :cool:

Regardss
praka123
Sep 13, 2007 at 9:25 PM
opensuse wiki may help.also for s/w updates :( u have to use yum update manager and have to add repo for 3rd party plugins :( and obvsly it is a rpm distro :( good thing is yast-but it will eat time for all those configs.
it is really hard to shift from a debian based distro to rpm or tgz.
Dark Star
Sep 13, 2007 at 10:06 PM
^^ya it is that's why I am a bit sad :( btw any idea abt.. Partitions and resolution ;)

What Say abt. Mandriva or Fedora ::?
vish786
vish786 #4
Sep 13, 2007 at 11:45 PM
Codecs

praka123 said:
it is really hard to shift from a debian based distro to rpm or tgz.

no, i feel its much easier. ;)
Kenshin
Kenshin #5
Sep 13, 2007 at 11:56 PM
for auto mounting partitions in suse.....u shud hv used base partition setup during install...it auto mounts all partitions..
drsethi
drsethi #6
Sep 14, 2007 at 1:13 AM
You can easily mount partitions through yast.
Download codecs from
*packman.links2linux.de/package/046
Dark Star
Sep 14, 2007 at 8:48 AM
Now hot to install .rpm package :p
kalpik
kalpik #8
Sep 14, 2007 at 10:22 AM
rpm -ivh <filename>.rpm
praka123
Sep 14, 2007 at 11:58 AM
fedora used to allow double click install UI.i hope open suse to got such a UI.
Dark Star
Dark Star #10
Sep 14, 2007 at 12:04 PM
kalpik said:
rpm -ivh <filename>.rpm

Code:
error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000

Put the file in /home/shashwat and done what you said and got the error :p

@ praka123 No there is no such privilege in open Suse that's why d/l Fedora 8Beta 2 :p
kalpik
kalpik #11
Sep 14, 2007 at 2:20 PM
^^ have to do it with root privileges.. so do a "su" and enter your root password before typing that command.
praka123
praka123 #12
Sep 14, 2007 at 2:21 PM
stick with a distro dear shashwath :D ,it helps learning.if u really want,why dont try live cd's.
Dark Star
Dark Star #13
Sep 14, 2007 at 3:30 PM
I know that bro.. :) but just wanna try it for time pass :p btw downloading Ubuntu DVD ISO ..with Fedora 8 Beta 2 :p