Going to upgrade to Suse ver 10 ...

... anybody that needs blinkers or earmuffs please get them now.

Sssssshhhhhhh!

Write slow as he can`t read very fast while SHHHHHHhhhhhhhh he`s working

I'M BACK ...

... Hello from SeSE 10



Now for some updates ...

DAM ... it's fast.

How the heck did they improve on that ... I won't need a 64bit.

I'll be downloading Suse 10 over the next coupla nights, all five CD's.

So, as you are now an expert on all things Linux/Suse, I'll be asking questions, lol

I know sweet BA about Linux, apart from having tried a few Distros in the past, most of which I've managed to make sense out of navigating, and that's about it.

Code? Text commands? I know not a thing, so should be fun

I do have a couple of books, both based on Red Hat circa '02, so they may help, dunno.

Good on you ... downloading the EvalDVD may be quicker ... it's what I used here. My MB allows me to choose where I boot using F12, and will auto use the DVDRW if nothing is in the Combo.

Floppy, I no nuffin about code or the Konsole, but I got FaD on and working, the rest, I just ask "The Lady" ... you will be a little surprised at what you see. Just remember, it aint Windows.

WE NEED MORE SMILIES ...

Floppy ... don't waste any CDs

Well not if you wan't to play any DVDs

I had to jump through fire and walk on water to get SuSE 9.3 to play DVDs, now it seems we will have to wait for the 'hackers' to fix it.

Have not looked at MP3 yet ... time for bed.

For all you out there a Linux hacker is someone clever who actually writes code ...

I hate to retype, so I will just repast this from my upgrade thread:
I had just upgraded from 9.3 to 10.0, and had to remove mplayer, so we'll pickup there:


That should get all your multimedia working, and dvd's playable painlessly.

now for the floppy drive, a more detailed how to:

logon as root. (or you can switch users in the logoff option)
use the file manager to go to the etc folder.
find a file called fstab
right click, open with kwrite, and add this line at the end:
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto user,acl,defaults 0 0

you can add spaces to make the columns line up, vb keeps removing extra spaces.

logoff, logon as yourself, and now the floppy works as you want in my computer.

Yep, been there, seen it, done it ... had that page bookmarked from the start ... I aint as daft as I'm cabbage looking ... however, despite its excellent destructions, I still get this.

... and for what its worth, you had to do something very similar to get 9.3 to play DVDs

The floppy 'situation' is 'fixed' in 10

I need to replace xine & Koffee with versions that work ... neither 'work' on my system. oh, and yes, I only have shop bought DVDs.

Also ... I never had any problem with or FF, they were already installed.

Just to save any other confusion ... I upgraded from 9.3 ... it was not a clean install ... silly of me to think that an upgrade would work. But hey! I'm always being told "this aint Windows".

Flopps may have better luck ... but why Suse thinks that I should not be allowed to play my own DVDs is beyond my comprehension.

BYE BYE SUSE ... hello Mandriva, one new install coming up.