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Installing SuSE 10.1 from DVD

• On the welcome screen

  • select Installation

  • enter the boot parameter vga=ask

  • press <RETURN> to start installation

  • at the prompt press <RETURN> to get list of video modes

  • in the following list of video modes select option 6.

• Select US english as language,BR

• select new installation,BR

• select Europe, Germany, hardware clock set to UTC,BR

• select KDE as desktop,BR

• modify suggested partition to
  • primary partition: 18 GB, swap
  • primary partition: 100 MB, reiser FS, /boot
  • primary partition: 10 GB, reiser FS, /tmp
  • extended partition
    • 15 GB, reiser FS, /
    • 15 GB, Reiser FS, /os, placeholder to install other operation system
    • Reiser FS, /home
• continue installation.

After the automatic rebootBR

• enter pacs5 as hostname, mpe-garching.mpg.de as domain, disable DHCP update,BR

• enter a wellknown password for root,BR

• for the network configuration
  • enable SSH in the firewall options,
  • configure the first network interface
    • static address setup
    • IP address 130.183.130.160, subnet mask 255.255.255.0
    • hostname pacs5
    • domain mpe-garching.mpg.de
    • name server 130.183.70.10 and 130.183.72.185
    • default gateway 130.183.130.1

• test the network interface,BR

• for the online update configuration
  • select configure now

  • BUT skip actual update

• select local user authentication
• skip adding local user, ignore warning
• accept hardware configuration

Updating the 3ware RAID driver

Printer configuration

Setting up additional installation sources

Installing additional packages

Update packages