How to open rar files in Opensuse/ Dual boot with XP!!!

[Hypnose]

hi dear,

Who can help me? i have installed for 2 days now Opensuse 11.1. first of all i don't have any experience with Linux.

i've downloaded a music file and i don't know how to extract the file. it is a Winrar file. who can tell me how to install the winrar or how to exrtract it? how can i install wine?

2. i have an external harddisk and i have lots of music on it. how can i listen to music on that harddisk, it is a NTFS format.

3. i have installed before installing linux windows 7 on another partition, i wan too install the xp on that partition again and maybe later windows 7 when it comes out. but at this momen i can not choose which os i want to start, i don't have the choise for dual boot, how can i change the ini file?

please help me and answer me in easy way because i don't have any experience i want to learn more about Linux. it is so difficault an dnot easy as windows.

thanks a lot

Sam

[oz]

How to open rar files in Opensuse/ Dual boot with XP!!!

Welcome to the forums!

You can install unrar for decompressing rar files.

[grishi_111]

optionally
install wine(if not already)you can find information here
Wine - openSUSE
then download winrar from their website
WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files
install winrar using wine.
once done, you can use winrar as you have probably done in xp.