[jdstegner]

I am practicing on a bootable disc before taking the big plunge. The goal is to be able to get wireless internet shortly after installation. I am running into three problems 1) I cannot mount an external drive 2) on one of my laptops I'm experimenting with it is schizo with everything opening the cursor crosses and 3) I cannot install a nsdiwrapper without #1.

Is the disc version the problem, if not any suggestions

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[techieMoe]

What version of SuSE, specifically, are you using? Also, what are the hardware specs on the computers you're trying to run it on?

[jdstegner]

Suse Version 10.3

Hardware: Gateway 7400, AMD Athlon 64 3400+, 2.2GHz, 1GB RAM

[techieMoe]

Ok. What kind of external drive is it and what filesystem is it formatted as?

[Jonathan183]

Originally Posted by jdstegner

2) on one of my laptops I'm experimenting with it is schizo with everything opening the cursor crosses

If you are using the kde version, by default a single click will open things up rather than the double click in windows ... you can change this if you want but I keep the default setting. This only causes a problem using a touchpad, I usually use a usb mouse so its not a problem for me

[jdstegner]

The external drive is a generic hard drive (not memory stick, or camera), I don't understand the format question you ask.

[Jonathan183]

Originally Posted by jdstegner

The external drive is a generic hard drive (not memory stick, or camera), I don't understand the format question you ask.

The three commands you need to use are mount, fdisk, and mkdir. Open a terminal and try reviewing

man mount fdisk mkdir su

When you have finished reading each man page press q to quit that man page.
If you are still struggling then connect the external drive, open a terminal and type

su
fdisk -l
mount

and post output here.

[techieMoe]

Originally Posted by jdstegner

The external drive is a generic hard drive (not memory stick, or camera), I don't understand the format question you ask.

Generally harddrives are formatted using a popular file system, such as NTFS (for Windows XP/2000/Vista), FAT32 (Windows 95/98/Me), HFS+ (Apple), EXT2, EXT3, ReiserFS (Linux).