Newbie

[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

Determined

[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]

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]

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]

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).