openSUSE 11.0 www.novell.com June 12, 2008 Start-Up Start-Up Copyright © 2006-2007 Novell, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foun- dation; with the Invariant Section being this copyright notice and license. A copy of the license is in- cluded in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”. SUSE®, openSUSE®, the openSUSE® logo, Novell®, the Novell® logo, the N® logo, are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Linux* is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other third party trademarks are the property of their respective owners. A trademark symbol (® , ™, etc.) denotes a Novell trademark; an asterisk (*) denotes a third-party trademark. All information found in this book has been compiled with utmost attention to detail. However, this does not guarantee complete accuracy. Neither Novell, Inc., SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, the authors, nor the translators shall be held liable for possible errors or the consequences thereof. Contents About This Guide vii Part I Installation and Setup 1 1 Installation with YaST 3 1.1 Choosing the Installation Media . 3 1.2 Choosing the Installation Method . 5 1.3 The Installation Workflow . 8 1.4 System Start-Up for Installation . 8 1.5 The Boot Screen . 8 1.6 Welcome . 11 1.7 Installation Mode . 12 1.8 Clock and Time Zone . 15 1.9 System Type . 16 1.10 Suggested Partitioning . 17 1.11 Create New User . 21 1.12 Installation Settings . 25 1.13 Performing the Installation . 29 1.14 Configuration of the Installed System . 30 1.15 Graphical Login . 35 2 Setting Up Hardware Components with YaST 37 2.1 Probing Your Hardware . 37 2.2 Setting Up Graphics Card and Monitor . 38 2.3 Setting Up Keyboard and Mouse . 39 2.4 Setting Up Sound Cards . 42 2.5 Setting Up a Printer . 43 2.6 Setting Up a Scanner . 47 3 Installing or Removing Software 49 3.1 Installing Software . 49 3.2 Checking Software Dependencies . 51 3.3 Packages and Software Repositories . 52 3.4 Removing Software . 53 3.5 Adding Software Repositories . 53 3.6 Installing Add-On Products . 55 3.7 Keeping the System Up-to-date . 56 4 Accessing the Internet 61 4.1 Direct Internet Connection . 61 4.2 Internet Connection Via Network . 64 5 Managing Users with YaST 65 5.1 Managing User Accounts . 66 5.2 Special Options . 69 5.3 Managing Groups . 74 5.4 Changing the User Authentication Method . 75 6 Changing Language and Country Settings with YaST 77 6.1 Changing the System Language . 77 6.2 Changing the Country and Time Settings . 80 Part II Basics 83 7 Basic Concepts 85 7.1 User Concept . 85 7.2 The Linux File System . 87 7.3 File Access Permissions . 95 8 Shell Basics 99 8.1 Starting a Shell . 100 8.2 Entering Commands . 101 8.3 Working with Files and Directories . 105 8.4 Becoming Root . 109 8.5 Modifying File Permissions . 110 8.6 Useful Features of the Shell . 113 8.7 Editing Texts . 117 8.8 Searching for Files or Contents . 119 8.9 Viewing Text Files . 120 8.10 Redirection and Pipes . 121 8.11 Handling Processes . 122 8.12 Important Linux Commands . 124 Part III Mobility 135 9 Mobile Computing with Linux 137 9.1 Laptops . 137 9.2 Mobile Hardware . 144 9.3 Cellular Phones and PDAs . 145 9.4 For More Information . 146 10 Managing Network Connections with NetworkManager 147 10.1 Use Cases for NetworkManager . 147 10.2 Enabling NetworkManager . 148 10.3 NetworkManager and VPN . 149 10.4 Using KNetworkManager . 150 10.5 Using GNOME NetworkManager Applet . 152 10.6 NetworkManager and Security . 157 10.7 Troubleshooting . 158 10.8 For More Information . 159 11 Copying and Sharing Files 161 11.1 Scenarios . 162 11.2 Access Methods . 163 11.3 Accessing Files on Different OS on the Same Computer . 164 11.4 Copying Files between Linux Computers . 166 11.5 Copying Files between Linux and Windows Computers with SSH . 173 11.6 Sharing Files between Linux Computers . 174 11.7 Sharing Files between Linux and Windows with Samba . 178 11.8 For More Information . 180 Part IV Help and Documentation 181 12 Help and Documentation 183 12.1 Included Help Resources . 183 12.2 Additional Help Resources . 192 12.3 For More Information . 194 12.4 Support for openSUSE . 197 A GNU Licenses 203 A.1 GNU General Public License . 203 A.2 GNU Free Documentation License . 206 Index 211 About This Guide This manual will see you through your initial contact with openSUSE®. Check out the various parts of this manual to learn how to install, use and enjoy your system. Installation and Setup Guides you through the installation process and the basic configuration of your system. Introduces YaST, the central tool for installation and configuration of your system. Learn how to set up or modify key components of your system: hardware components such as monitors or printers and network connections such as Internet access. Find how to install or remove software, how to administer users and groups, and how to make use of the various system languages available with openSUSE. Basics This part mainly addresses to users changing to Linux from other operating systems. It introduces basic Linux concepts such as the user concept, the structure of the file system and access permissions for files and directories. An introduction to the shell is also provided, although you hardly ever need the command line to interact with your system nowadays. Mobility Get an overview of the features openSUSE offers to support mobile working with laptops, mobile storage devices such as external hard disks and PDAs or cellular phones. Learn how to use NetworkManager to easily integrate your machine into different network environments or different types of networks. Find advice on how to exchange files between different systems, be it on different partitions of one computer (Linux/Windows*), or from one computer to another (Linux/Linux, Linux/Windows). Help and Documentation Provides an overview of where to find help and additional documentation in case you need more information or want to perform specific tasks with your system. 1 Feedback We want to hear your comments and suggestions about this manual and the other doc- umentation included with this product. Please use the User Comments feature at the bottom of each page of the online documentation and enter your comments there. 2 Additional Documentation We provide HTML and PDF versions of our books in different languages. The following manuals are available on this product: Start-Up Guides you through the installation and basic configuration of your system. For newcomers, the manual also introduces basic Linux concepts such as the file system, the user concept and access permissions and gives an overview of the features openSUSE offers to support mobile computing. Provides help and advice in trou- bleshooting. KDE Quick Start Gives a short introduction to the KDE desktop and some key applications running on it. GNOME Quick Start Gives a short introduction to the GNOME desktop and some key applications running on it. Reference Gives you a general understanding of openSUSE and covers advanced system ad- ministration tasks. It is intended mainly for system administrators and home users with basic system administration knowledge. It provides detailed information about advanced deployment scenarios, administration of your system, the interaction of key system components and the set-up of various network and file services open- SUSE offers. Novell AppArmor Quick Start Helps you understand the main concepts behind Novell® AppArmor. viii Start-Up Novell AppArmor Administration Guide Contains in-depth information about the use of Novell AppArmor in your environ- ment. Lessons For Lizards A community book project for the openSUSE distribution. A snapshot of the manual written by the open source community is released on an equal footing with the Novell/SUSE manuals. The lessons are written in a cook book style and cover more specific or exotic topics than the traditional manuals. For more information, see http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Lessons _for_Lizards. Find HTML versions of the openSUSE manuals in your installed system under /usr/ share/doc/manual or in the help centers of your KDE or GNOME desktop. You can also access the documentation on the Web at http://www.novell.com/ documentation/opensuse110/ where you can download PDF or HTML versions of the manuals. For information where to find the books on your installation media, refer to the Release Notes of this product, available from your installed system under /usr/share/doc/release-notes/. 3 Documentation Conventions The following typographical conventions are used in this manual: • /etc/passwd: filenames and directory names • placeholder: replace placeholder with the actual value • PATH: the environment variable PATH • ls, --help: commands, options, and parameters • user: users or groups • Alt, Alt + F1: a key to press or a key combination; keys are shown in uppercase as on a keyboard • File, File > Save As: menu items, buttons About This Guide ix • Dancing Penguins (Chapter Penguins, ↑Another Manual): This is a reference to a chapter in another manual. 4 About the Making of This Manual This book is written in Novdoc, a subset of DocBook (see http://www.docbook .org). The XML source files were validated by xmllint, processed by xsltproc, and converted into XSL-FO using a customized version of Norman Walsh's stylesheets. The final PDF is formatted through XEP from RenderX.