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Now let's take a look at installing openSUSE on your computer. We're going to look at the different installation methods you can use to install openSUSE with, such as DVD, CD or network installation and we'll talk about the different steps you need to take to prepare your computer for installation and some of the things you need to know during installation. Then we'll take a look at a few demos on different aspects of installing openSUSE. Now, openSUSE, like any modern operating system, can be installed using one of several different methods. The newest method that we have seen with openSUSE is it actually can be installed from within Windows. We'll talk about this in a moment. It can also be installed with the traditional methods such as CD-Rom or DVD or from an NFS share or even across the network using HTTP and FTP. There are a couple of other methods out there as well, such as openSLP servers. Now, the CD method, of course, is the easiest and it requires good media. In fact, there's a point where you should do a media check on the CD itself. Now, if you install from CD, it comes in different feature sets. The full DVD that you can purchase or download has both the KDE and GNOME desktops installed, um, and it also has some non-open source software, which is proprietary codex and so forth and you can download the DVD or the CDs. If you download the CDs, you will download them for either a KDE or a GNOME desktop. In addition to the CD and DVD method, you can also use, uh, NFS and HTTP and FTP network methods for installing openSUSE. Now, they have a few requirements, such as a bootable PXC-compatible network card and, of course, a good network connection. You can also install openSUSE through a remote VNC connection. As I mentioned earlier, the newest method of installing openSUSE is as, as an executable installer within Windows. Now, what you would do is you would put your DVD in the system and the auto-play function will pop up and it would actually, uh, ask you a couple of questions, uh, using this, this Windows dialog box and then it would start the install. It would go ahead and install a few basic components and then it would reboot the machine directly into the installation. It's actually a neat way to do it if you're running Windows. Now, one of the things we'll look at while we're installing, is YAS. YAS is your central, one-stop shopping point for installation and configuration on openSUSE. It basically installs and configures every aspect of hardware and configuration options in openSUSE, including network, uh, sound cards and so forth. There are both GUI and command-line options available for YAS. Now, before we even put the CD or DVD into the player, we need to prepare for our installation. Preparation is extremely important because there are certain questions you must answer during installation so you kind of have to have those answers before hand. First of all, you should ensure that you've met the minimum hardware requirements. We'll discuss those in just a moment; know how you're going to install. Is it going to be a CD or a DVD installation? Are you going to be using the KDE, the desktop or the GNOME desktop? Also, know if you're going to use local or network authentication. Know also how you want your hard disk partitioned, how you want the different sections of the hard disk divided up and, if you're going to run a Windows installation alongside the openSUSE installation, you'll need to take that into account as well. Now, let's look at the hardware requirements for openSUSE. Now, it can use different processors of course. The most popular processors out there, the Intel, Pentiums, Zeons and so forth, or it can use the AMD Duron, Athalon, Athalon XP and so forth. Basically, though, it can run on high-end processors and a few low-end processors. Now, memory is important. 256mb is the minimum recommended standard of memory for openSUSE, but of course we always recommend more. A good amount to start with is a half a gig; 512 megabytes. As far is hard-disk space goes, you at least want a minimum of 500 megabytes for a minimal system install and at least three gigabytes is recommended for a standard system. Of course, in this day and age with hard drives as large as they are, that shouldn't be a problem. For sound and graphics cards, openSUSE supports most of the modern sound and graphics cards that come out computers that are being manufactured today. It also supports just about every Ethernet card you can think of and by and large, it supports most wireless cards. Every now and then, a wireless card will give you a little bit of trouble. We'll look at how to get around that when we talk about networking. Basically, if you want to look at what the system requirements hardware-wise are for an openSUSE installation, simply go to the openSUSE.org website and it will tell you what the latest hardware is that's been tested with openSUSE and what's compatible with it. Now let's go ahead and go look at the installation.