Chapter 10 . Running SUSE Linux 329 Figure
Chapter 10 . Running SUSE Linux 329 Figure 10-2: Use the arrow and Tab keys to navigate YaST in text mode. YaST offers you some intuitive tools for configuring your system and comes preconfigured so you start with a nice set of defaults. YaST also does a good job detecting your hardware, finding partitions, and the like, so a new user can often just accept the settings YaST chooses. Here are some examples of what YaST does for you: . Detects hardware You don t have to check through /etc configuration files or run lsmod to see how your hardware has been configured in SUSE. From the Hardware section, you can select icons representing your CD drives, graphics cards, printers, joysticks, scanners, sound cards, and mice. Click the Hardware information icon to see your full list of detected hardware. . Manages system configuration Like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE stores much of the information it uses to configure services at boot time in files in the /etc/sysconfig directory. The information in those files is in the form VARIABLE= VALUE . Under the YaST System icon, you can select the sysconfig Editor, which lets you select each file and then view and possibly change each variable so that you don t have to guess what variables are available for each configuration. For more advanced system administrators, this is a great way to fine-tune the startup services for your system. SUSE also includes a System Configuration Profile Management (SCPM) applet, which lets you store and manage a collection of system settings so it can be used again later. . Configures network devices YaST detects your dial-up modem, Ethernet card, DSL modem, or ISDN hardware, and gives you the opportunity to configure each piece of hardware. SUSE also does a much better job than most distributions at getting Winmodems working in Linux, which is particularly useful for using dial-up features on laptops that have cheap, built-in modems.
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