NOTE

The installation description in this chapter covers installs on Intel x86 PCs. If you have AMD 64-bit or Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology systems, you need to purchase the SUSE Linux boxed set, which includes installation media for both of those types of hardware, or download the version of openSUSE for the x86_64 platform. If you are using an Itanium-based system, an ia64 version of openSUSE is also available.

Before You Begin

To install openSUSE, you need at least 96MB of main memory, although more is always better, and future releases may require greater amounts of memory for installation and usability. For a desktop install, however, I recommend at least 256MB of main memory.

The default installation of openSUSE 10.3 from the KDE install CD included on the DVD with this book requires at least 2.5GB of disk space. The default installation from an official openSUSE 10.3 DVD requires 3.25GB of disk space. You can get by with less by deselecting packages during installation. Installation should work on any Pentium-class x86 PC. The openSUSE installation DVD contains a total of 4.1GB of data.

The description here explains how to install by booting the installation DVD that comes with this book and installing the software from that medium.

Starting Installation

Here are the steps for installing openSUSE Linux on your hard disk from the openSUSE CD image included on the DVD that comes with this book:
NOTE
With previous versions you chose your desktop during the installation. At the time of this writing, openSUSE 10.3 CDs are available for installation in two forms - KDE or GNOME. We have included the KDE CD on the DVD that comes with this book. If you want to download the GNOME version or the full openSUSE 10.3 install DVD, follow the Download link from the openSUSE·org site. From that same site, you can download the Non-Open Source Software CD, which contains software that is not open source but can otherwise be distributed without cost.

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