There are now a number of liveCD offerings for openSUSE. I have summarized them below:
Novell/SuSE-GmbH liveCDs:
There are installable liveCDs (packaged by Novell/SuSE-GmbH) for:
- openSUSE-11.0 (32-bit and 64-bit) with KDE-4.0.x desktop. [I don't recommend this liveCD due to immaturity of KDE-4.0.x] Go here for download: Software.openSUSE.org
- openSUSE-11.0 (32-bit and 64-bit) with Gnome desktop. Go here for download: Software.openSUSE.org
openSUSE community liveCDs
and there are liveCDs packaged by the openSUSE community for:
There are torrents available for all of the above, where bittorent typically has a higher probability of a download with no errors in the download.
In all cases, after downloading:
- be certain to do an md5sum check of the downloaded file vs the posted md5sum value
- be certain to also burn at the slowest speed to the highest quality media available, to ensure the highest probability of a successful installation
- during the install, when you have a hiccup, pull out your digital camera (if you have one) take a snap shot of the error message(s). You can use the digital camera image as a refresher as to the error message, or even post the image on the web to illustrate your point/error
- and finally, after the above (or during the above) log on to our forum and ask for support. You can also get good support from IRC freenode channel #suse