Installed OpenSUSE 10.3

[Faun]

Finally today I downloaded OpenSUSE 10.3 [64bit edition 691MB] iso (was searching for RPM based linux, then narrowed down to Fedora 8, Mandriva 2008 and OpenSUSE 10.3, decided to give a spin to the last one), and installed it on 8 GB parition with 500MB boot partition.

I was just curious of how much the learning curve will variate from Ubuntu 7.10 (It is my primary distro till now) to OpenSUSE 10.3. Now it seems that the menus are somewhat confusing and hidden deep within layers. Though I dont find it am irritant but I couldn't found a community support like ubuntu forum.

The first thing i wanted to do was to mount my other partitions, which for some reasons OpenSUSE didt mount on installation (though it detected every partition on installation screen). Then when I do a quick fdisk -l, it was horror, command not found ??? Hey and even gcc was not there though the man page exists.

Do i need to add some repositories ?? Any help and tips would be appreciated.
So please help me jazz up and make OpenSUSE installation a worthy effort.

1. I want to mount my other partitions
2. Codecs for Kaffeine and Amarok (xine engine preferably)
3. GCC compiler
4. some good themes for KDE

[aditya.shevade]

^^ Simple task actually...

Open YaST... Under YaST you will see partitioner in System tab. Go there and set mount points for all the partitions you have. DO NOT FORGET TO DOUBLE CHECK THE FORMAT FLAG.

Then, under YaST, in software management, install xinlib and VLC player. It is better than Kaffeine. Or you can go for M-PLayer.

Then GCC, you have to select C/C++ development from the S/W management. So that GCC pack will be installed.

Themes for KDE.... I think kde-look.org would do...

Aditya

[Faun]

thnx

i already solved the mount problem

will bump for new queries

[NucleusKore]

Refer this thread for multimedia and ntfs write
OpenSuSE 10.3 for standalone PCs without an internet connection

[Faun]

many thnx

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