[wellylug] A few queries

[David Murray]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Tim O'Flaherty wrote:

> Hi all

Hi, Tim. :o)


> I recently had to reset my Redmond OS, as it was missing the IP, Subnet and
> Default mask as well as Primary and Secondary DNS details.
>
> having rebooted into Suse, I am finding that I am having trouble connecting
> to the 'net.
>
> DHCP is showing the correct Primary and Secondary DNS details, so that's all
> good BUT how do I go about setting the IP, Subnet and Default mask? (yes, I
> will _eventually_ get around to wiping the redmond, which leads me to the
> second query....)

Within YaST, goto "Network Devices" and then select "Network Card". All 
settings relating to the operation of the network card can be found there.


> I'm running Suse on a 40 G on a primary slave, but am thinking of wiping
> Redmond OS completely. To do that, I need to know how to transfer the
> partitions over, and possibly (well, probably) having to rewrite the
> MBR/LILO/GRUB in order to remove any traces.

You can edit your bootloader settings from within YaST.

Select "System" and then "bootloader", and then on the "Section 
Management" tab you will be able to modify or remove sections as you 
want.

WRT the partition(s) used (formerly) by Redmond, you can do what you like 
to them again within YaST by selecting "System" and then "Partitioner". 
Partitioner takes a little longer to start than the "Bootloader" applet.

I hope that helps. :o)


Cheers

David