OpenSUSE 11.3 newbie questions

[bstef]

Hi,

I'm new to linux, and I'm just trying to learn OpenSUSE. I just installed it and I have a few quick questions.

#1

I accidentally installed the "OpenSUSE Installer (LOCAL)" on Windows 7, so now I get the option to choose windows or the installer at the windows boot screen. I ended up just installing OpenSUSE on a completely different HD (my original intent) from a burned DVD, so this installer is useless and I don't know how to remove it.

#2

After installing opensuse on my second HD, the boot screen is now SUSE's instead of Windows, and I can choose suse's desktop, the suse failsafe, windows 1, and windows 2. Windows 1 brings me to the windows boot screen with the choice i mentioned above (windows or the local installer i accidentally installed), and windows 2 i assume is my second windows partition which is just my SWAP file, and selecting it does nothing (which would make sense if thats all it is).

My question here is how do I make it so my default boot screen is the windows one with an option between windows 7 or suse? Or would this require reinstalling the system? If it does and its simple enough to explain please do I wouldnt mind removing it and reinstalling at this point, I would just wipe my whole second HD from windows.

#3

I have a netgear adapter. unfortunitly i'm not at home right now and I don't remember the model, so I'll provide that this evening if necessary. What I do know is they do not have a driver for linux. I've found ACX100, but I didn't find my netgear adapter listed on their website. I also found NDISWrapper, but thats for XP and I still don't know if that'll work. I will of course try both unless someone here has a better solution. If anyone knows anything that will work on any netgear adapter for linux please let me know, if not then I'll provide the model later on.

[yancek]

I accidentally installed the "OpenSUSE Installer (LOCAL)" on Windows 7,

Don't know what that is so can't help with it.

Booting with Grub bootloader from Opensuse, you can change the default by going to a file named menu.lst which is in the /boot/grub directory. Open it with a text editor such as kwrite. You need to log in as root to do this. Open a terminal and type su -, hit enter key and you will be prompted for your root password. type kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst and it should open the file (I assume Opensuse still has kwrite as a text editor, if not you will need to look in the menu for text editors).

In the menu.lst file you will see the word default near the top and probably a number after it. If you want windows to boot, count down the title entries to windows and enter that number after default. Remember, Grub counts from zero so if win 7 is the third entry, you would put the number 2 after default. You can also set the length of time before booting default by entering a number after the word timeout which is also near the top of the file.

Sorry, can't help with the netgear adapter.