New User Docs

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 ...

The VERY first thing to do is read our "general" openSUSE stickie here:
NEW Users - openSuse Pre-install (general) PLEASE READ - openSUSE Forums

Again, note you MUST read that link above. The majority of the information you need for a smooth installation/use of openSUSE is located there!

Now after you have read that, please continue for openSUSE-11.4 specific information (note some links may still point to 11.3) ...


Here are some more important ...

We are going to attempt to explain the new packman repository layout. Some things you should know:

• Packman is a complete source of multimedia (except libdvdcss)
• It can now be divided in 4 sections or more typically added as one complete repo
  
  • The divisions if you want to use Packman that way, are:
    
    • Essentials
    • Extra
    • Games
    • Multimedia
    
    
  
  

• Packman is mirrored in different locations. You can see more about that here:

Additional package repositories - openSUSE

Multimedia Playback
There are established practices and accompanying guides for setting up Multimedia Playback. Here: ...