Suse 9.0

[Garyalaska]

Hi I'm a newbee in the process of dumping Windows. I have Suse 9.0 up and running with a couple of problems. I'm running a dual Boot using System Commander 2000 (w/partition commander) and deticated a 19.1 GB drive to Linux. Pre partitioned the drive to a 2GB root, 512 mMB swap and a couple of 7.5 Gb areas. The 9.0 loaded into the root and the swap was usable but it only saw one other partition. It sees the Fat32's on the other drives OK. I've tried to re do a couple of times and just ran grub only seems to have troubles. Right now I running on a monster 19.1 partition. I had a problem with enteries in a fstab program and Yast said it was repaired. There is something I don't know, have been reading all of the HO To's and manuals I can find but a lot of it assumes that Yast does it fine.
Other problem is the modem has config problems, I bought a CenDyne 56K V.92 serial modem just to not have problems. It started to test and I heard the modem on line but it droped ( wrong strings?) I can not acdcess the line using any program. Does anyone know where to get a linux ddriver for this? Also the modem works fine using windows.
Thanks in advance Gary

[CMonster]

Dumping Windows - no need to dump completely -nothing wrong with running Windows side-by-side Linux.


Partitioning - it's pretty easy really; SuSE 9 shouldn't have any problem recognizing legitimate partitions and can read/write most any file system (with the notable exception of safe write access for NTFS); you probably will reach the point where you dump System Commander.

Modem - from what I hear you do not need a driver, try using kppp to configure your dialup connection - does your ISP support a standard ppp connection?

[Garyalaska]

Thanks for the reply, just going to put windows on the back burner and run older programs with it. Just getting tired of being a captive customer. I'll try kpp and perhaps dunp system commander.