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