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Now that we've talked about installing openSUSE, let's actually go and install it. For this installation, for this demonstration, we're going to be using a CD-based installation that has the GNOME desktop already installed with it so when the operating system installs, we'll have a GNOME desktop. Ok, we're looking at the openSUSE splash screen here, the opening screen and there are several options we can look at that we're going to go through. First option, quite obviously, is boot from the hard disk. We can do this if we left the CD-Rom in and we need to go ahead and install from the hard disk or we decide we're not going to install from the CD at this time. The next option is installation. That carries us through a normal installation. Then we have a couple of options down here you should pay attention to if you have installation issues. The first one is, is installation ACPI disabled and as you can see down here where it says boot options, that adds the ACPI equals off option to the, uh, installation's specifications. What that basically means is that if the hardware does not support ACPI, which is advanced configuration power interface, then we can turn that off. The next option, installation local APIC disabled, basically, uh, disables support for advanced program interrupt controllers because they may cause problems with some hardware during installation. The next option we'll see is installation safe settings and that basically gives us a ton of settings, as you can see in the boot options, that basically provide for a bare, minimal installation with very little hardware detection. That gets us to the installation no matter what kind of strange hardware we may have installed because we can always go back later after the installation and reinstall the hardware if we need to. Then finally, there's a rescue system option and basically this gets you to a minimal Linux system without a graphical user interface so you can rescue the system so you can perform some command-line options. If this were a DVD install, uh, we would also get another option; repair installed system and this would boot us into the graphical repair system. As you can see at the bottom, there's all kinds of, uh, function keys that provide for different options you can use during, uh, installation. There's the F1 for help, there's F2 for language. We can install using different languages. We change the video mode using F3 if we so choose to. We can change the source using F4. We can change from CD-Rom to SLP, FTP, HTTP, NFS, Samba or CIFS or even install from the hard disk. And F5 gives you several kernel options that you can use if you're an advanced user or if there's some specific configuration settings your system needs to have. And finally, F6 will allow us to specify a device driver for the hard drive in case openSUSE can't pick it up.