[LBo] Instaliing SUSE 10.1 w/ Internet

[Lynn Gallup]

This is message for Howard or anyone else who has installed SUSE 10.1
Please take notes on what you had to do to set up SUSE 10.1 for connection 
to the internet.
And then pass them along to the forum (for me if for no one else).
Thanks,
Lynn

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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:20:51 -0400
> From: Howard Rosen <hrosen33 at highstream.net>
> Subject: [LBo] New SuSE 10.1 Installation
> To: qna at linuxbasics.org
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> This week I am going to Install SuSE 10.1.  Here is how it will be done.
>
> hda1 and hda2 are my C: and D: Windows drives.  They will be left intact.
>
> hdb is my Linux drive.
>
> Physically hda is an 80 GB drive and hdb is a 60 GB drive.
>
> hdb will be partitioned as below:
>
> hdb1 is mounted on /boot as a primary partition with 16 MB and is 
> formatted
> ext2
> hdb2 is partitioned as extended for all remaining space.
> hdb5 is a logical partition of 1 GB mounted on / (root) and is formatted 
> ext3
> hdb6 is a logical partition of 2 GB mounted on /home and is formatted ext3
> hdb7 is a logical partition of 3 GB mounted on /opt and is formatted ext3
> hdb8 is a logical partition of 6 GB mounted on /usr and is formatted ext3
> hdb9 is a logical partition of 700 MB mounted on /var and is formatted 
> ext3
> hdb10 is a logical partition of 2 GB mounted on /windows and is formatted 
> vfat
> hdb11 is a logical partition of 500 MB mounted on swap.
>
> I based the sizes on a currently installed SuSE 9.3 which has both Gnome
> and KDE.
>
> I hope the above is useful for others considering an installation.
>
> Also each of the above hdbx should be as /dev/hdbx.
>
> /dev/hdb10 mounted on /windows will be drive E: in Windows and will allow
> sharing of data files between Windows and Linux.  Some people use /share 
> as
> the mount point for this sharing of data.
>
> Any suggestions or recommendations are more than welcome.
>
> Howard