NEW Users - Suse-11.1 Pre-installation – PLEASE READ

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openSUSE-11.1 LIVE CDs

There are now a number of liveCD offerings for openSUSE-11.1, all of which are installable. I have summarized them below:

Novell/SuSE-GmbH liveCDs:
There are installable liveCDs (packaged by Novell/SuSE-GmbH) for:

• openSUSE-11.1 (32-bit and 64-bit) with KDE-4.1.3 desktop. Go here for download: Software.openSUSE.org
• openSUSE-11.1 (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:

• openSUSE-11.1 (32-bit) with KDE-4.3 desktop. Go here for download: "KDE Four Live" CD
• openSUSE-11.1 (32-bit and 64-bit) with KDE-3.5.10 desktop. Go here for download: Carlos Goncalves: Unofficial KDE 3.5 Live CD for openSUSE 11.1

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

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Guide re: recovery when openSUSE installed on external drive

User snapperfishes created a useful guide for how to recover from a situation where one has Windows XP installed on one's computer's internal drive, and then after installing openSUSE on an external hard drive the installation has overwritten the booting sequence in the internal drive, and one can no long boot into Windows directly without the external drive.

The guide for recovery is located here:
Seperate Boot for external drive and internal drive how to - openSUSE Forums

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Beginners wiki and How to Participate in openSUSE

Here is a link to a section for "Beginners" to find various openSUSE wiki that may be useful to beginners. Category:Beginners Guides - openSUSE

For those new (and old) to openSUSE, here is a link to a wiki that provides suggestions on how users can contribute/participate in the openSUSE community: How to Participate - openSUSE

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This read only stickie thread will be moved soon to the new read only area (for new users) : New User How To/FAQ (read only) - openSUSE Forums