Installing openSUSE 11.2 Walk Through – VirtualBox

I went ahead and just did a quick screenshot walk through of installing openSUSE 11.2, and some possible points of interest for anyone that may need help understanding the steps.

I will try to do the same thing for each distribution, and each release of the major distributions (and possibly Arch Linux).

So here we start:

I am going to assume you know how to download and burn an ISO to a DVD (I am using the DVD), so I will not walk through that process. Once you insert the DVD into the drive, and boot up to the DVD, you’ll first be welcomed with a menu with a few options. For this instance, we are going to select Installation

This will bring you to a status window, if you would like to know “what’s going on behind the scenes” you can press your “esc” key at this time.

After loading of all the required modules, and drivers the installer will start, and the first page is where you’ll choose your language and keyboard layout. Note: There is a license agreement listed, but it is not a requirement to “accept it”, notice there is no accept / do not accept button? Choose your desired layouts, and click “Next”

That will bring you to the portion where your machine hardware is “probed” or better defined as detected. This will also detect previous installation of openSUSE, Windows, or other Linux Distributions. When this is completed, click the “Next” button

To be brought to the “Installation / Upgrade / Repair” Window. Since I have no previous installations detected, I do not have an option to Upgrade or Repair.

Now we’ll decide what time it is, which should be quite simple since you can find the time at your local digital or analog clock

This next one is one of the major ways openSUSE and popular distribution Ubuntu differ. As you see, openSUSE allows you to choose which desktop environment you would like to use. I prefer KDE, which was the default selected and went ahead and used that for the purpose of this walk through.

After choosing the Desktop Environment of your choice (again if you would like to know more about them please let me know, I’d be willing to do a comparison of the 2). You’ll be brought to the partitioner. Most likely you’ll keep defaults, however, if you want to have added abilities to later shrink / resize / remove / add partitions within a single drive, I’d recommend using “LVM Based” Partition, which is what I did for the purpose of this walk through. Once you decide, and have completed your partitioning click “Next”

Now tell the installation who you are, what password you want to use and indicate if you want to use that same password for the root (semi-equivalent to Windows Administrative rights).

I went ahead and just did a quick screenshot walk through of installing openSUSE 11.2, and some possible points of interest for anyone that may need help understanding the steps.

I will try to do the same thing for each distribution, and each release of the major distributions (and possibly Arch Linux).

So here we start:

I am going to assume you know how to download and burn an ISO to a DVD (I am using the DVD), so I will not walk through that process. Once you insert the DVD into the drive, and boot up to the DVD, you’ll first be welcomed with a menu with a few options. For this instance, we are going to select Installation

This will bring you to a status window, if you would like to know “what’s going on behind the scenes” you can press your “esc” key at this time.

After loading of all the required modules, and drivers the installer will start, and the first page is where you’ll choose your language and keyboard layout. Note: There is a license agreement listed, but it is not a requirement to “accept it”, notice there is no accept / do not accept button? Choose your desired layouts, and click “Next”

That will bring you to the portion where your machine hardware is “probed” or better defined as detected. This will also detect previous installation of openSUSE, Windows, or other Linux Distributions. When this is completed, click the “Next” button

To be brought to the “Installation / Upgrade / Repair” Window. Since I have no previous installations detected, I do not have an option to Upgrade or Repair.

Now we’ll decide what time it is, which should be quite simple since you can find the time at your local digital or analog clock

This next one is one of the major ways openSUSE and popular distribution Ubuntu differ. As you see, openSUSE allows you to choose which desktop environment you would like to use. I prefer KDE, which was the default selected and went ahead and used that for the purpose of this walk through.

After choosing the Desktop Environment of your choice (again if you would like to know more about them please let me know, I’d be willing to do a comparison of the 2). You’ll be brought to the partitioner. Most likely you’ll keep defaults, however, if you want to have added abilities to later shrink / resize / remove / add partitions within a single drive, I’d recommend using “LVM Based” Partition, which is what I did for the purpose of this walk through. Once you decide, and have completed your partitioning click “Next”

Where you’ll be greeted with the last stop saloon. Here you can review the options you have chosen, along with changing some of the setting like disabling the firewall, enabling ssh, and opening port 22. When you’ve verified all your settings feel free to click install.

Which is when you’ll be brought to the very very last saloon where there is no turning back. Click Install on the Installation Confirmation and you’re ready for a cup of coffee, a beer, or a nice Extra Dirty Extra Dry Martini (with 3 Olives)..

Sit back enjoy your drink, and the slideshow. I haven’t yet taken the time to read what cycles through, but I’m sure they are quite exhilarating . So any feed back of cliff notes would be welcome.

For some reason I left out the final completed screen (yeah.. seriously wtf was I thinking.. It’s like having …… ok never-mind, I’m not going to go there).

Once your done, and your computer reboots (remember to take out the disk so you don’t boot to it, but even if you do, don’t panic just choose the option “Boot From Harddisk”.

Your screen may flash a few times while it does some final configurations and you’ll be booting in no time with the familiar openSUSE style splash screen.

After the computer boots I am brought to the very bland (sorry guys, seriously it is a pretty bland screen) KDM (we’re using KDM since we chose to install KDE for our Desktop Environment, and KDM is default for that). Put in your username and password that you used in the previous step

You’ll then be greeted with a nice KDE Splash Screen, and finally the desktop for your first initial login.

And believe it or not, you’re pretty much set to do as your little heart desires.

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