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akis
Hello.I would like to ask a second oppinion about linux suse OS 9.0 Professional.If anyone install it and ofcourse use it plz make a comment about that OS.Thank You
chutch
I installed the server version recently, and I'm pretty happy with it. The installation was not difficult, though Red Hat and Mandrake are smoother (Suse's installer doesn't have the polish the others do), and it failed to detect my video card - I ended up using another. However, all else went very smoothly and the result was an apparently rock-solid system. Make sure to run a port scan against the system if you install this (or any) OS, as you should know that certain unexpected ports may be open when you are finished. Yast is a good, though not quite great, system management tool.

akis
smile.gif thanx for the oppinion!
dissolutions
it's a brilliant OS i have it in aVMware VM and it runs perfectly smooth, install was painless for those who worry about that kind of stuff...
invisible
your know download links 9.0?
shaun2k2
Generally, you won't find full download links for SuSe; it's semi-commercial. You can download trial versions, however.

www.cheapbytes.com
www.linuxiso.org


-Shaun.
cyrixx
i had installed it for a while... but i only had problems with it mad.gif
mousecurser was hidden etc. sad.gif
GSecur
I dropped redhat as a desktop a few months ago,and have been using suse 8.2 will outstanding results. From what I have heard 9.0 is an outstanding upgrade.

tomer_shim
tnx for opinion and sites
akis
Thnx for the posts too.I just got the dvd and even the tv tuner is working!although i have some problems with the modem.
sysadmin
Iīm working with SuSE 8.1, 8.2 and 9.0 (German Professional Versions).

I didnīt have any problems and itīs easy to install and to config.

A have intallations on older maschines up on Pentium 100 Mhz, 128Mb RAM and up to date Servers. Also i have dualboot installations WinXP/SuSE on ACER Notebooks (for example: Travelmate 240).

Everything works fine. biggrin.gif

Bye
Sysadmin
icedealer
linux is for bitches ;P~
use bsd!! biggrin.gif

freebsd is easy to install/configure and much better as linux wink.gif

at least.. suse suxx.. if u wanna use linux use gentoo
decepticon
I only had SuSE 9.0 installed on my laptop and i want to install winxp......Could anyone on this forum help me to install winxp on SuSE 9.0 partition ? I had search this forum and google with "installing winxp over linux" but still can't find the result.....please accept my apologie for this stupid question.... wacko.gif
dissolutions
installing winxp on a suse partition is impossible, the file systems.
decepticon
I mean not to install winxp under linux/SuSE partition....but installing winxp after i'd got SuSE/linux partition on my laptop...is there any way to create winxp partition on linux partition? hehe...sorry for this little but confusing question...i'm still curious with creating windoz partition on linux partition....after that i think we could install winxp.... wink.gif couldn't it?
akis
decepticon ofcourse there is.download partition magic last version and create the boot disks.boot them and make the partition!very user friendly to use
dissolutions
you can but the best way I find is:
say you have a 40 gig and for easy sake we'll do it 20/20:
Installing windows xp on a 20 gig partition. save the other 20
install suse on the other 20 gigs of unallocated space, Suse will install grub or lilo whatever you choose (grub is the best tongue.gif) and than you can modify grub to the bootloader you've always wanted tongue.gif
decepticon
so...what is the use for the FAT (there is ext2, ext3, JFS, XFS, FAT, reiser, swap) file system in the partitioner if we open YAST (if we want to create new partition) ?
sorry for this kind of stupid question again.... cool.gif
dissolutions
just use fdisk

fdisk(8) - Linux man page
NAME
fdisk - Partition table manipulator for Linux
SYNOPSIS
fdisk [-u] [-b sectorsize]device

fdisk -l [-u] [-b sectorsize] [device ...]

fdisk -s partition ...

fdisk -v
DESCRIPTION
Hard disks can be divided into one or more logical disks called partitions. This division is described in the partition table found in sector 0 of the disk.

In the BSD world one talks about `disk slices' and a `disklabel'.

Linux needs at least one partition, namely for its root file system. It can use swap files and/or swap partitions, but the latter are more efficient. So, usually one will want a second Linux partition dedicated as swap partition. On Intel compatible hardware, the BIOS that boots the system can often only access the first 1024 cylinders of the disk. For this reason people with large disks often create a third partition, just a few MB large, typically mounted on /boot, to store the kernel image and a few auxiliary files needed at boot time, so as to make sure that this stuff is accessible to the BIOS. There may be reasons of security, ease of administration and backup, or testing, to use more than the minimum number of partitions.

fdisk (in the first form of invocation) is a menu driven program for creation and manipulation of partition tables. It understands DOS type partition tables and BSD or SUN type disklabels.

The device is usually one of the following:

/dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/sda /dev/sdb
(/dev/hd[a-h] for IDE disks, /dev/sd[a-p] for SCSI disks, /dev/ed[a-d] for ESDI disks, /dev/xd[ab] for XT disks). A device name refers to the entire disk.

The partition is a device name followed by a partition number. For example, /dev/hda1 is the first partition on the first IDE hard disk in the system. Disks can have up to 15 partitions. See also /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt.

A BSD/SUN type disklabel can describe 8 partitions, the third of which should be a `whole disk' partition. Do not start a partition that actually uses its first sector (like a swap partition) at cylinder 0, since that will destroy the disklabel.

An IRIX/SGI type disklabel can describe 16 partitions, the eleventh of which should be an entire `volume' partition, while the ninth should be labeled `volume header'. The volume header will also cover the partition table, i.e., it starts at block zero and extends by default over five cylinders. The remaining space in the volume header may be used by header directory entries. No partitions may overlap with the volume header. Also do not change its type and make some file system on it, since you will lose the partition table. Use this type of label only when working with Linux on IRIX/SGI machines or IRIX/SGI disks under Linux.

A DOS type partition table can describe an unlimited number of partitions. In sector 0 there is room for the description of 4 partitions (called `primary'). One of these may be an extended partition; this is a box holding logical partitions, with descriptors found in a linked list of sectors, each preceding the corresponding logical partitions. The four primary partitions, present or not, get numbers 1-4. Logical partitions start numbering from 5.

In a DOS type partition table the starting offset and the size of each partition is stored in two ways: as an absolute number of sectors (given in 32 bits) and as a Cylinders/Heads/Sectors triple (given in 10+8+6 bits). The former is OK - with 512-byte sectors this will work up to 2 TB. The latter has two different problems. First of all, these C/H/S fields can be filled only when the number of heads and the number of sectors per track are known. Secondly, even if we know what these numbers should be, the 24 bits that are available do not suffice. DOS uses C/H/S only, Windows uses both, Linux never uses C/H/S.

If possible, fdisk will obtain the disk geometry automatically. This is not necessarily the physical disk geometry (indeed, modern disks do not really have anything like a physical geometry, certainly not something that can be described in simplistic Cylinders/Heads/Sectors form), but is the disk geometry that MS-DOS uses for the partition table.

Usually all goes well by default, and there are no problems if Linux is the only system on the disk. However, if the disk has to be shared with other operating systems, it is often a good idea to let an fdisk from another operating system make at least one partition. When Linux boots it looks at the partition table, and tries to deduce what (fake) geometry is required for good cooperation with other systems.

Whenever a partition table is printed out, a consistency check is performed on the partition table entries. This check verifies that the physical and logical start and end points are identical, and that the partition starts and ends on a cylinder boundary (except for the first partition).

Some versions of MS-DOS create a first partition which does not begin on a cylinder boundary, but on sector 2 of the first cylinder. Partitions beginning in cylinder 1 cannot begin on a cylinder boundary, but this is unlikely to cause difficulty unless you have OS/2 on your machine.

A sync() and a BLKRRPART ioctl() (reread partition table from disk) are performed before exiting when the partition table has been updated. Long ago it used to be necessary to reboot after the use of fdisk. I do not think this is the case anymore - indeed, rebooting too quickly might cause loss of not-yet-written data. Note that both the kernel and the disk hardware may buffer data.

DOS 6.x WARNING

The DOS 6.x FORMAT command looks for some information in the first sector of the data area of the partition, and treats this information as more reliable than the information in the partition table. DOS FORMAT expects DOS FDISK to clear the first 512 bytes of the data area of a partition whenever a size change occurs. DOS FORMAT will look at this extra information even if the /U flag is given -- we consider this a bug in DOS FORMAT and DOS FDISK.

The bottom line is that if you use cfdisk or fdisk to change the size of a DOS partition table entry, then you must also use dd to zero the first 512 bytes of that partition before using DOS FORMAT to format the partition. For example, if you were using cfdisk to make a DOS partition table entry for /dev/hda1, then (after exiting fdisk or cfdisk and rebooting Linux so that the partition table information is valid) you would use the command "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1" to zero the first 512 bytes of the partition.

BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL if you use the dd command, since a small typo can make all of the data on your disk useless.

For best results, you should always use an OS-specific partition table program. For example, you should make DOS partitions with the DOS FDISK program and Linux partitions with the Linux fdisk or Linux cfdisk program.

OPTIONS
-b sectorsize
Specify the sector size of the disk. Valid values are 512, 1024, or 2048. (Recent kernels know the sector size. Use this only on old kernels or to override the kernel's ideas.)
-l
List the partition tables for the specified devices and then exit. If no devices are given, those mentioned in /proc/partitions (if that exists) are used.
-u
When listing partition tables, give sizes in sectors instead of cylinders.
-s partition
The size of the partition (in blocks) is printed on the standard output.
-v
Print version number of fdisk program and exit.
BUGS
There are several *fdisk programs around. Each has its problems and strengths. Try them in the order cfdisk, fdisk, sfdisk. (Indeed, cfdisk is a beautiful program that has strict requirements on the partition tables it accepts, and produces high quality partition tables. Use it if you can. fdisk is a buggy program that does fuzzy things - usually it happens to produce reasonable results. Its single advantage is that it has some support for BSD disk labels and other non-DOS partition tables. Avoid it if you can. sfdisk is for hackers only - the user interface is terrible, but it is more correct than fdisk and more powerful than both fdisk and cfdisk. Moreover, it can be used noninteractively.)

The IRIX/SGI type disklabel is currently not supported by the kernel. Moreover, IRIX/SGI header directories are not fully supported yet.

The option `dump partition table to file' is missing.
SEE ALSO
cfdisk(8), parted(8), sfdisk(8)

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/fdisk.8.html
mamep
QUOTE (icedealer @ Jan 9 2004, 03:56 PM)
linux is for bitches ;P~
use bsd!! biggrin.gif

freebsd is easy to install/configure and much better as linux wink.gif

at least.. suse suxx.. if u wanna use linux use gentoo

xexe
yeap i use bsd in my laptop and it rocks biggrin.gif
and something else for suse...

Package: Linux Kernel
Announcement-ID: SuSE-SA:2004:001
Date: Monday, Jan 5th 2004 20:27 MET
Affected products: 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7,
SuSE Linux Database Server,
SuSE eMail Server III, 3.1
SuSE Linux Firewall on CD/Admin host
SuSE Linux Office Server
SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0
SuSE Linux School Server
Vulnerability Type: local system compromise
Severity (1-10): 6
SUSE default package: yes


decepticon
Thanks for the FDisk man pages dissolutions.....thanks a lot....
kristafer
you have to install xp first in order for dual-boot to work.
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