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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 Language . 10 1.7 Media Check . 11 1.8 License Agreement . 12 1.9 Installation Mode . 13 1.10 Clock and Time Zone . 15 1.11 Desktop Selection . 16 1.12 Installation Settings . 17 1.13 Performing the Installation . 23 1.14 Configuration of the Installed System . 24 1.15 Graphical Login . 33 2 Setting Up Hardware Components with YaST 35 2.1 Probing Your Hardware . 35 2.2 Setting Up Graphics Card and Monitor . 36 2.3 Setting Up Keyboard and Mouse . 37 2.4 Setting Up Sound Cards . 40 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 . 54 3.7 Keeping the System Up-to-date . 55 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 . 68 5.3 Managing Groups . 73 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 Part III Mobility 125 9 Mobile Computing with Linux 127 9.1 Laptops . 127 9.2 Mobile Hardware . 135 9.3 Cellular Phones and PDAs . 136 9.4 For More Information . 136 10 Managing Network Connections with NetworkManager 137 10.1 Use Cases for NetworkManager . 137 10.2 Activating Use of NetworkManager . 138 10.3 Using KNetworkManager . 138 10.4 The GNOME NetworkManager Applet . 143 10.5 Troubleshooting . 148 10.6 For More Information . 150 11 Copying and Sharing Files 151 11.1 Scenarios . 152 11.2 Access Methods . 153 11.3 Accessing Files on Different OS on the Same Computer . 154 11.4 Copying Files between Linux Computers . 155 11.5 Copying Files between Linux and Windows Computers with SSH . 163 11.6 Sharing Files between Linux Computers . 164 11.7 Sharing Files between Linux and Windows with Samba . 167 11.8 For More Information . 170 Part IV Help and Troubleshooting 171 12 Help and Documentation 173 12.1 Included Help Resources . 173 12.2 Additional Help Resources . 183 12.3 For More Information . 184 13 Common Problems and Their Solutions 189 13.1 Finding and Gathering Information . 189 13.2 Installation Problems . 192 13.3 Boot Problems . 201 13.4 Login Problems . 203 13.5 Network Problems . 209 13.6 Data Problems . 214 13.7 Support for openSUSE . 226 A GNU Licenses 233 A.1 GNU General Public License . 233 A.2 GNU Free Documentation License . 236 Index 241 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 Troubleshooting 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. Also find a compilation of the most frequent problems and annoyances and learn how to solve these problems on your own. 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. KDE User Guide Introduces the KDE desktop of openSUSE and a variety of applications shipping with it. It guides you through using these applications and helps you perform key tasks. It is intended mainly for end users who want to make efficient use of KDE in everyday life. GNOME Quick Start Gives a short introduction to the GNOME desktop and some key applications running on it. GNOME User Guide Introduces the GNOME desktop of openSUSE and a variety of applications you will encounter when working with the GNOME desktop. It guides you through using these applications and helps you perform key tasks. It is intended mainly for end users who want to make efficient use of applications running on the GNOME desktop. viii Start-Up 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. 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/opensuse103/ 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/.