Migrating from OpenSuse to Trisquel
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Hello,
I am new to working with free software in any detail, was a moderately advanced computer user years ago (mainly on windows, also on macs), and am rusty now.
I came across a give-away computer with Opensuse, and was motivated to read up on gnu/linux distros again, after intending to switch over to them for a couple of years.
I am confident that I want to move over to Trisquel, or something similar and FSF approved, but for now I have a few limitations:
--I am not used to terminals and have no assistance from anyone I know IRL.
--I have an ASUS usb wifi adapter, and if that is a problem, I will have to work with what I have for the time being.
--At the moment my other system is not working, so I operating only from this Opensuse system which I am not familiar with yet.
Can I run my wifi adapter on triquel major obstacles and work arounds?
How can I migrate from opensuse to Trisquel most effectively? While I can't burn disks, I do have a usb drive; however I would like to install it on the hard-drive as my boot-up OS.
Thanks for the help.
>I am not used to terminals and have no assistance from anyone I know IRL.
Trisquel uses Synaptic Package Manager to install new programs, libraries, etc. It has an amazing GUI that looks great and is easy for anyone to use.
Because of this, for the most part, you do not need to know how to use bash/the terminal.
>I have an ASUS usb wifi adapter, and if that is a problem, I will have to work with what I have for the time being.
To check if it is compatible, you might need to use the terminal.
Just type lspci in terminal and tell us the output so we can determine whether it is compatible. USB wifi adapters tend to have liberated chipsets, but it's good to make sure before the switch.
>While I can't burn disks, I do have a usb drive
I'm not sure if you can make a USB device to install without a CD, but someone else on here might know how.
>however I would like to install it on the hard-drive as my boot-up OS.
You will need a bootable version first, such as a USB device or CD. However I'm stlil not sure if you can install Trisquel on a USB without a CD first.
Thank you.
After a moment, I was able to find a tip online about the su command for super user privileges. Anyway, here is the output:
Linux:/home/unk/Desktop # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P Processor to I/O Memory Interface (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
02:0a.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3512 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 01)
02:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
OKay... is there a noob-friendly step-by-step guide somewhere (using unetbootin)?
I still want to go ahead and install trisquel as the OS on this computer regardless of how free opensuse may (potentially) be.
I am a member!
Here's a newbie-friendly page I wrote on using unetbootin for another
wiki; hope it helps!
http://accessiblefreedom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Creating_Live_Media
cyinn, .exe is Windows, DOS, OS/2 executable file. In GNU system with Linux kernel it doesn't works.
Try to find this software in OpenSUSE on YaST Software Manager.
Or you can download the Unetbootin binary from official website for GNU/Linux systems.
Thanks everyone.
Dave, I get this message:
sudo: unetbootin: command not found
I am a member!
I happened to be using Open Suse when I wrote that page. Unetbootin
wasn't in the repos, as of 12.3; I got the binary from the unetbootin
sourceforge pages. There were a bunch of dependencies that were in the
repos, however. I apologize for any typos in that wiki; the whole thing
needs work and more hands on it.
If you don't need or want persistent space on the usb drive, you can
just use the 'dd' command, within Opensuse's terminal, to write a
bootable Trisquel system to that unit. This command is already in
GNU/Linux distros.
A command like
sudo dd if=~/Downloads/Trisquel_6.0_i386.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=8M;sinc
Will do this (names changed to suit your setup). Remember, you don't
need to type that whole long filename; just enough to uniquely match it,
than hit 'tab'; the command shell will fill in the rest.
HTH,
Dave
On 06/23/2013 12:32 AM, name at domain wrote:
> Dave, I get this message:
> sudo: unbetbootin: command not found
I am a member!
The command you ran will not tell us about your ASUS USB wireless adapter.
You would need to run a similar command though:
lsusb
That said it is probably not compatible. Wireless is a weak spot with GNU/Linux and free software. The companies that design the chipsets are mostly hostile to free software. I'm the founder of ThinkPenguin and we worked with a company named Atheros which is more cooperative on the free software front in the 802.11 wireless area so there are a few more options now (or soon to be). There is also an older USB 802.11G option still available. You'll probably need to pick up one of these cards or plug an ethernt cable into the system.
You can find one of the 802.11G USB Wireless cards with the chipset from this URL: libre.thinkpenguin.com (use it and Trisquel will get 25% of the profits from any purchases you make!)
Good luck!
Thanks Chris, for now I have no money to put towards my computer, but if that proves to be the way to get wireless onto trisquel I'll get one of those when I can.
Here is the output from the corrected command:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0ad2:9310 Service & Quality Technology Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0b05:1786 ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c05a Logitech, Inc. Optical Mouse M90
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:00db Microsoft Corp. Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 V1.0
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 058f:9360 Alcor Micro Corp. 8-in-1 Media Card Reader
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 0781:555f SanDisk Corp.
Alright, no surprise there. I'll come back to trisquel at my first opportunity.
Thanks again everyone.
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