2. use yast -
Choose/Install Packages -> next either choose
Change/create configuration (if you want to install more stuff from the suse cd)
or install packages (if you want to install from a directory or ftp or something.)

3. Okay here's what I tried
--------t.cpp-------------
#include

int main (){
return 1;
}
--------------------------

%gcc t.cpp

creates a.out, works fine.

My guess is you installed gcc & egcs - but NOT gpp. gpp is all the c++ stuff. Try installing that package and it should work fine.

4. Well when you get X running - KDE has floppy and cdrom icons on the desktop you can just click on and mount & mount with those.

floppy - "mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy"
cdrom - "mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom"
or it might be "mount /dev/hd[bcd] /cdrom"
for ide cd drives on /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd. Or it could be /dev/sd[abcdefg] for a scsi CD-drive. You should have a default symbolic link from /dev/cdrom to whatever your actual cd device. So just try /dev/cdrom and it should work.

"umount /floppy", "umount /cdrom"

Take a look at the man page for mount and that should help you also - "man mount".

some good sources of info are the howto's on your system in /usr/doc/howto/en - Most everything you need to know is in one of these documents.

Use zless to view them - ex. "zless CDROM-HOWTO.gz"

Assuming you're using a modem and not ADSL or Cable, I find the best way to configure you're dialup stuff is kppp. It's very nice. It's right in the main KDE menu under internet.

Arstechnica forum is a good place to talk to people about linux and get help. it's http://forum.arstechnica.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi - go to the linux kung-fu section.

Hope that helps.

1.Setting up xwindows , I run the sax , and configure my monitor keyboard etc , then it says sax will now start the xserver , It brings up a window and I save the current mode.
I exit and try to run startx , then I get an error msg , invalid mode (either 640x480 or whatever mode I choose).WTF

2:How do I add/remove/update packages?

3.I use pico to write a small cpp hello world program , save it in the correct format . At the command prompt I type in gcc -o example example.cpp . Error , no such file iostream.h

4:How do I access my floppy drive and cd rom ,

if you would be so kind as to answer my questions or point me in the direction of a good resource I would be very grateful.

If I can get past these small little hurdles , I could start on my games :-)

[This message has been edited by Neko (edited November 06, 1999).]