Quick Start Guide

• Resize partitions using the parted command. Find more information about this
tool at the GNU Parted website http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted
.html.
The rescue system can be loaded from various sources and locations. The simplest
option is to boot the rescue system from the original installation medium:
1 Insert the installation medium into your DVD drive.
2 Reboot the system.
3 At the boot screen, 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 setup does not include a DVD drive, you can boot the rescue
system from a network source (including the openSUSE FTP server). The following
example applies to a remote boot scenario—if using another boot medium, such
as a DVD, modify the info le accordingly and boot as you would for a normal in-
stallation.
1 Enter the conguration of your PXE boot setup and add the lines
install= protocol :// instsource and rescue=1. If you need to start the repair
system, use repair=1 instead. As with a normal installation, protocol stands
for any of the supported network protocols (NFS, HTTP, FTP, etc.) and
instsource for the path to your network installation source.
2 Boot the system using “Wake on LAN”, as described in Section “Wake on LAN”
(Chapter 2, Remote Installation, ↑Reference).
3
Enter root at the Rescue: prompt. A password is not required.
Once you have entered the rescue system, you can make use of the virtual consoles
that can be reached with [Alt] + [F1] to [Alt] + [F6].
A shell and many other useful utilities, such as the mount program, are available in
the /bin directory. The sbin directory contains important le and network utilities
for reviewing and repairing the le system. This directory also contains the most
important binaries for system maintenance, such as fdisk, mkfs, mkswap, mount,
mount, init, and shutdown, and ifcong, ip, route, and netstat for maintaining the
network. The directory /usr/bin contains the vi editor, nd, less, and ssh.
To see the system messages, either use the command dmesg or view the le /var/
log/messages.
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