Operation Manual

• Resizepartitionsusing the partedcommand.Find more information about this
tool at the GNU Partedwebsite
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted
.html
.
The rescuesystemcan be loaded from various sources and locations.The simplest
option is to boot the rescue systemfrom the original installation medium:
1 Insertthe installationmediuminto your DVD drive.
2 Rebootthe system.
3 At thebootscreen, press[
F4
] and choose DVD-ROM. Then choose Rescue
System from the main menu.
4
Enter
root
at the
Rescue:
prompt.A password is not required.
If your hardware setupdoesnot includea DVD drive, you can boot the rescue
systemfrom a networksource (including the openSUSEFTP server). The following
example applies to a remote boot scenario—ifusing another boot medium, such
as a DVD,modify the
info
file accordingly and bootas you wouldfora normal in-
stallation.
1Enter the configuration of your PXE boot setup and add the lines
install= protocol:// instsource
and
rescue=1
. If you need to startthe repair
system, use
repair=1
instead.As with a normal installation,
protocol
stands
for any of the supportednetworkprotocols (NFS, HTTP, FTP, etc.) and
instsource
for the path to your network installation source.
2 Boot thesystemusing“Wake on LAN”, as describedin Section“Wake on LAN”
(Chapter2, Remote Installation, ↑Reference).
3
Enter
root
at the
Rescue:
prompt.A password is not required.
Once you have entered the rescuesystem,you can make use of the virtual consoles
that can be reached with[
Alt
] +[
F1
] to[
Alt
] +[
F6
].
A shell and many otherusefulutilities,such as the mount program,are available in
the
/bin
directory. The
sbin
directory contains important file and networkutilities
for reviewingand repairing the file system. This directory also containsthe most
important binaries for system maintenance,such as fdisk, mkfs, mkswap,mount,
mount, init, and shutdown,and ifconfig, ip, route, and netstatfor maintaining the
network. The directory
/usr/bin
containsthe vi editor,find, less, and ssh.
To see the system messages,either use the command
dmesg
or viewthe file
/var/
log/messages
.
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