open SUSE problems...

[Dark Star]

Hey All
Just shifted to open Suse way lighter than Ubuntu but the problem am facing ..

1. Hard Drive partition are not mounted except the file system Also Opening File System Open System Moniter
2. Cannot change resolution 1280 x 1024 after doing that my moniter goes out of frequency Not the case with any other distros
3. How to install codec

Regards rest later won't explore Suse much just for my sister daily work and to listen a bit music

Regardss

 

[praka123]

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]

^^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]

Codecs

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

no, i feel its much easier.

 

[Kenshin]

for auto mounting partitions in suse.....u shud hv used base partition setup during install...it auto mounts all partitions..

 

[drsethi]

You can easily mount partitions through yast.
Download codecs from
*packman.links2linux.de/package/046

 

[Dark Star]

Now hot to install .rpm package

 

[kalpik]

rpm -ivh <filename>.rpm

 

[praka123]

fedora used to allow double click install UI.i hope open suse to got such a UI.

 

[Dark Star]

rpm -ivh <filename>.rpm

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

@ praka123 No there is no such privilege in open Suse that's why d/l Fedora 8Beta 2

 

[kalpik]

^^ have to do it with root privileges.. so do a "su" and enter your root password before typing that command.

 

[praka123]

stick with a distro dear shashwath ,it helps learning.if u really want,why dont try live cd's.

 

[Dark Star]

I know that bro.. but just wanna try it for time pass btw downloading Ubuntu DVD ISO ..with Fedora 8 Beta 2