questions about SUse linux 10

April wrote:

> I am very new to this whole thing. I just installed SUse linux
> enterprise server 10.1 using OES2 CDs. Then I found something strange
> as follows:
>
> 1. There are some folders showing empty but I know there are some
> files there. What happened? Something that I have not turned on?
> Please advise!

Which directories are you talking about ? And how do you access them ?

> 2. When I went to YaST, I click some of them and nothing happened. Is
> there anyway that I can verify the thing I click is running like task
> manager? For example, I clicked partitioner and LVM and nothing
> showed up. But they did show up before after I click them. What is
> going on?

You only have to click once on the icons and sometimes it takes a
while. You can run top in a terminal to see whats happening.

> 3. I tried to find the volumes or mounted volumes. I looked at \dev
> folder and I did not see sdx or evms or mdx folder there. I did
> create one volume using partitioer into \home. But I still did not
> see sdx or evms folder anywhere. Please advise!

Which volumes were you after ?


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Cheers,
Edward