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This article is obsolete. It will only work from now until the date when openSUSE 12.1 is released. The new article, which works from now (9 Novenber 2011) onwards is located here: HowTo Upgrade openSUSE 12.x to Tumbleweed. Despite the title, it works for 11.4 just fine.

If you have a working version of Tumbleweed based on openSUSE 11.4, this article might interest you: HowTo Prepare 11.4-based Tumbleweed for openSUSE 12.1

Warning: Tumbleweed ...

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This article series is for New openSUSE users (ie newbies to openSUSE) to provide basic guidance in burning your installation CD/DVD and installing openSUSE. This is for simple, and not complex setups.

This first article is the first of a series of posts in this thread, which will hopefully provide helpful hints on how to install openSUSE.

Note: openSUSE releases are scheduled in advance. Please wait until the release date, and then proceed to download your CD / DVD. [Before then you will get the last openSUSE version]. You may also find things somewhat slow the first day or so, as the masses all try to download at once.

1. Where to find the openSUSE installation ISO file

Note, typically you go to openSUSE web site, and download an ".iso" file. Software.openSUSE.org

You then burn that to a CD or DVD (dependent on whether you downloaded CD or DVD version) the installation CD/DVD. This first post has some important hints on that.

Please note, if you decide to download openSUSE, pay very close attention to the MD5 checksum.

2. Checking MD5 ...