Hi guys,
Its been a while since my last visit, back to the monotony of win-based uni life after a fun summer of Linux-based PHP-coding tomfoolery. I have my lovely upgraded PC crying for a Linux-OS install and I'm gonna try SuSE this time...so my question(s):

1. Will YaST do me a boot disk instead of MBR changes...wife no like change and boot menus scare the beejesus out of her.

2. I have 3HD's...60Gb NTFS (primary) > will remain the same.
160Gb NTFS (primary) > want to create 20-30Gb ext2 and
60Gb NTFS with 1Gb FAT32 (logical) as transfer space.

Hardware speaking IDE channel 0 is the top two and channel 1 is the third along with a DVD-+RW drive (Sony DRU-510AK). Is this the best way?

3. About that DVD drive, will SuSE (latest) see that as a DVD-ROM drive, I don't care about burning DVD's just read possibilities.

Thanks in advance,
Andy.

"1. Will YaST do me a boot disk instead of MBR changes...wife no like change and boot menus scare the beejesus out of her."

Yes. Both MBR bootloader and floppy boatloader are optional in the YaST installer.

" Hardware speaking IDE channel 0 is the top two and channel 1 is the third along with a DVD-+RW drive (Sony DRU-510AK). Is this the best way?"

You can pick up some hard drive speed with Linux by running two hard drives in parallel. Divide Linux disk accesses equally between /dev/hdb and /dev/hdc to pick up some speed. Drives that are on the same cable like /dev/hda and /dev/hdb can only be accessed one at a time.

___________________________________
Be prepared. Create a LifeBoat CD.
http://users.rcn.com/srstites/LifeBo...home.page.html

Steve Stites

I think that one drive runs fast enough, used to have RedHat on this setup b4 I got the 160Gb...
So what about my DVD drive, will it show as a DVD-ROM?

Yes it will. You should have no problems with SUSE knowing it is a DVD drive.

Dave