some noob questions about linux.
 

Yesterday I installed suse 9.1 but it seems to be more difficult than I tought.

I want to format my usb stick so it will work with linux, but I have to use fdisk, but whats fdisk, how I use it, where can I find it.

I also want to install flashplayer but I need to type ./flashplayer-installer in command. But it doesn't seem to work.

I downloaded aMSN, but it's in a .bin file, how do I open it with linux?

-just type fdisk in the shell (console)
-check user permissions on the file, so you can execute it chmod 755 flashplayer-installer
- never used that before. try the RPM or the source (.tar.gz).

other stuff allready worked, but still I got problems with that fdisk.

Do I have to type it in command or somewhere else? I think somewhere else, but where. And it seems that fdisk can make your disk unreadable, and I don't want to screw up my usb stick, so I need to be 100% sure how it works.

BTW, if I format it with fdisk, will it still work under windows?

If fdisk is too hard, use cfdisk..

don't know them both :D

It sais thet I have to type fdisk /dev in console.

Where is the console :D (thats prolly something I can find myself)
But than I have to type the name of the device behind the fdisk command, where can I see what name my USB stick has?

AND big question, will my usb stick still work in windows????

go the the start menu and open up a console or so. or press ctrl alt F1 to go textonly ctrl alt f5 (or f7) brings you back to the graphical environment

the stick is prolly /dev/sda. "fdisk /dev/sda"

format it with FAT, readable/writable by both linux and windows

if I type fdisk in the konsole nothing happens

don't forget you need to be root (command to go root: "su -")

k, just figured that out but thanks anyway

fat isn't recognized by kernel :grum:

install an RPM with a FAT patch, or compile the latest kernel yourself

compiling a kernel isn't so difficult, and you learn a lot of usefull stuff

install you do just by updating, right?

I don't know how to compile, so I won't try that ;)

no. use google, download the suse FAT patch in RPM. doubleclick on it, or use the "rpm" command to install (rpm -i "...")

compiling isn't that hard. just google the kernel howto, follow the clear guidelines and everything will be OK

tried everything for that usb stick.

Tried to mount it (don't know how to do the fdisk stuff and the cfdisk is only for hdd)

tried it with

mkdir /mnt/usbstick
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick

I get something like "/dev/sda1 is no (blok-apparaat)"

But linux recognized the stick, but it sais something like "unmountable usb drive"


edit: btw Teus, everyone told me that suse9.1 allready knows ntfs and fat, so thats prolly not the problem.

mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usbstick ?

ehh... doesn't it mount automatically? :D
try booting with the stick already inserted. "mount" to see mounted stuff like HDD/memory and USB stick

I once used once under SUSE, it was mounted automatically at boot and i got an icon on the desktop

what happens when you try to "fdisk /dev/sda" "fdisk /dev/sda1"... when do you get the "FAT is not supported" error?

I can see the stick in the screen with my floppy and cd-writer, but than when I open it I get an error and something about the stick that isn't mounted.

If I use fdisk /dev/sda1 it sais that /dev/sda1 doesn't exist.

I get the FAT error if I use FAT, not if I use vfat

obviously because you need to type "vfat" if you want to use FAT. typing "fat" doesn't work

try fdisk'ing / mounting "/dev/sda".
drop the 1 at the end

I gonna try that, I allready tried vfat and fat, but never sda without that "1"

non of this things worked :(. It doesn't seem to find sda/sda1.
And when I type dmesg is the konsole it doesn't find the USB stick anymore :(.

But now the usb stick get recognized in linux as a drive of "48B with 37.8GB free" :wtf: .

But I got no permisions on it, so I can't write to it.

moehahahaahhahahahaa :grin:
I did it :ws:
Did all the stuff you told me, but after that I allways getted a message that the stick contient a wrong file system.
So I format it in windows from FAT32 to FAT, and it worked :super: