Installing Suse

Selecting Your Installation Method

Boot Options

Installation Mode

Customizing the Installation

Desktop Environments

Partitioning The Disks

Defining Filesystems

Selecting Software for Installation

Selecting a Boot Loader

Configuring Network Access

SuSEconfig

Configuring Your Hardware

 

Booting the System

Booting Concepts

Run levels

Switching Run levels Manually

Using chkconfig to Control Run levels

LILO

GRUB

Sharing Data on Windows and Linux Partitions

Troubleshooting Booting

Fixing Boot Problems Using Run levels

The SUSE Rescue System

 

User Administration

Basic User and Group Concepts

Creating Users and Groups

Configuring User Preferences

 

Basic Security and Log Files

Why Security?

Password Ageing

Switching Users

Logging in Remotely - SSH

Console Apps

Security Files

Network Login as root

System Log Files

 

Partitions, Filesystems, and Files

Types of Partitions

Creating Partitions

Updating a Disk’s Partition Table

Changing Partition Types

Logical Volume Management

Filesystems

EXT2, EXT3, ReiserFS, JFS, XFS, VFAT/NTFS

Filesystem Comparisons

Mounting Filesystems

Mount Options

Mounting Filesystems Automatically

Unmounting Filesystems

Processes

Understanding the Process

Background Processes

Examining Processes

Killing Processes

Performance and Tuning Commands

 

Backup and Restore

Why Backup?

Backup Devices

Backup Commands

 

Timing and Scheduling

Timing and Scheduling

Scheduling One-Off Jobs

Regular Job Scheduling

 

Automating Tasks

Shell Aliases

Writing Shell Scripts

Scripting Languages

 

Linux Networking

Configuring an IP Network

ifconfig

Network Tools

Using Telnet

Tracing Packets on the Network

Network Troubleshooting

Wireless Networking

ndiswrapper

Configuring Your Wireless Network

 

Setting Up Printing with CUPS

Setting Up a Locally Connected Printer

Printing from the Command Line

Cancelling a Print Job from the Command Line

Setting Up a Simple Print Server

Printing to CUPS from Windows

Using the CUPS Web Interface

The CUPS Command-Line Tools and Configuration Files

 

Working with Packages

Binary RPMs

Installing an RPM

Removing Installed Packages

Distribution RPMs

The RPM Environment

Compiling an RPM from the Spec File

Checking the Finished RPM

Installation Sources

YaST’s Installation Sources Module

1-Click Installation

Command-Line Installation Tools