OpenSUSE:
The first thing that you are going to want to do it put the disk in the drive, and boot up from the boot loader. To do this you will want to press the ESC key or another key a lot until the bootloader starts. Then choose the drive that you put the cd into to load first.
The first screen that you see is one that has a couple of options for you to choose from. They are Boot from hard disc, Installation, Installation-ACPI Disabled, Installation-Local ACPI Disabled, Installation-Safe Mode, Rescue System. You will want to choose Installation. If you want the installation in a different language you will want to hit F2. Once everything is set for you then you can hit enter.
Next you will see a loading screen. This just has the OpenSUSE logo in the bottom right corner, underneath it is a loading bar. After that you will see the installation wizard. The first screen in the wizard asks you to check the installation media. Choose what media you have it on then hit start check. Once it is done click next. The next screen is the license agreement, and you have to agree to it. Then click next. This screen does a test to make sure that your computer can handle OpenSUSE. Then click next.
This screen asks you what you want to do with the installation. You have the option of Installation, update, other options. Under that box you also have the option to Add online repositories before installing, and Include add-on products from separate media. If you know what repositories you need you can choose that option, and the same for the add-on products, but if you don’t you should leave those boxes blank. Then click next.
This screen asks you if you want to run the network setup wizard, or not. Make your decision and click next. This next screen starts the set up wizard for your network, the options that you have in the box in the middle of the screen are: Automatic Address Setup (via DHCP), or Static Address Setup. Choose DHCP if you aren’t sure, because you would probably know if you had a static IP. Then click next.
This next screen shows the main repositories that are available, plus it also shows any other repositories that you may have wanted to install. Put an X in all the boxes that you want to install, then click next. The next screen show the wizard getting all the repositories that you wanted. It could take a couple of minutes depending on how many you chose to get.
The next screen asks you to choose what time zone you are in. It has two boxes. The first is one that has regions of the world, like Europe, USA, Asia, Pacific. The other box has all the time zones in it, such as for the USA: Easter, Pacific, Mountain. You have the option to use UTC, which changes the time based on daylight savings time. You can change the time, if it isn’t correct, too. Once you are done click next.
This next screen is just an overview of everything that is going to be installed on your system. If you need to change anything, then you can just click on the change button in the middle at the bottom. Once everything is correct, go ahead and clicks accept. After you click accept, one of three license agreements (AdobeICCProfile, Adobe flash player, Sun Java) will pop up. Go through and then accept them. Then a confirm the install window will pop-up. It asks if you are sure that everything is correct and you are ready to install. If you are click install.
The next screen will be the installer. It should take about 20-30 seconds for OpenSUSE to fully install. As soon as the install is complete it will automatically go to a countdown to restart, you can choose to stop that by clicking on Stop. Then you can click next.
This screen is for the root password. Go ahead and enter that. You can also, make sure that the keyboard layout is correct from this screen. Just type in the little box below the password boxes. Then click next.
This screen asks you for a host name. If you don’t know it you can just click on change host name via DHCP, then click on next. This screen asks you for your network configuration. Put a dot next to Use following configuration. Don’t change anything in the box unless you know exactly what you are changing. Just click on next. This next screen will test your connection to the internet via “whatever NIC or modem it found”. You can choose to do this or click on No, skip test. Then click next. Then you see the results on the next screen. Click next when done.
The next screen will ask you if you want to get updates now or if you want to wait till later. It is recommended that you get the updates. Once that is all done, click next.
The next screen is for user authentication. The options that you have are: Local(etc/password) which is the password file, LDAP, NIS, Windows Domain. Unless you are planning on running a server, you should choose Local. Then click next. The next screen asks you to add users. Just go through and add as many users as you would like, then click next.
The next screen will write the system configuration to the hard drive. This should only take a minute. Then click next, once done. Next is the Release Notes screen. Just go through them and then click next.
Once you click next on the last screen the installer will go through and detect all the hardware that is on your computer. Make sure that you read over this list carefully, to make sure that everything that is in your computer is listed there. If it isn’t then you can change things by clicking on the Change button on the bottom in the middle. Once everything is correct, go ahead and click next.
This last screen is the Installation complete screen. It has a Congratulations message and everything. Once you are all set just click Finish. The installer will go away and OpenSUSE will load up. Then you are all set.
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