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Now that we've seen how to install SUSE to get the installer going and get the files copied over, in this next part we're going to look at some more configuration options when we install openSUSE. Now openSUSE will basically finish it's installation steps. Um, it's copied files to the system, it's going to save the configuration now and then it's going to install the boot manager, save installation settings and prepare the system for initial boot. This is a little bit of a process and sometimes it can take a few minutes, especially for our demonstration since we're working within a virtual machine. You'll go through several steps along the way and you'll see several messages Flash upon your screen. Don't be alarmed by any of this. It's just stuff going on under the hood that openSUSE has to do to get a good installation going. It's also going to initialize the boot loader configuration. It's going to check the boot loader, check the partition tables and help the systems partition and load the appropriate boot loader settings. At that point it's going to give us the option to reboot in a few seconds. So we can go ahead and select OK to reboot. During this time it's going to write configuration settings, it's going to, uh, load drivers and things and so forth and get us back to where we were so we can complete the installation. During this time you'll see your video image flicker as it's loading the appropriate video drivers. You'll see messages on the screen possibly. But again, it's going to take us back into the installation so that we can complete the steps required to install openSUSE. Now that the system has performed its installation steps, there's still some more configuration aspects we need to perform before we get a fully installed openSUSE system. One of the things we need to do that's very important is configure a password for the root user. Now, root is a super user, of course, so you want to protect this account and the password for it. We'll talk a little bit more about that during the course as we go. For now, let's assign a password for the root account. We're going to make it a complex password and we repeat the password. We have the option of testing our keyboard layout if we like. There are also some expert options we can look at. Normally just to assign the password for root you don't need to do that. Let's go ahead and click next. And it's going to check the system configuration again. You'll find that it does this quite a bit throughout the installation because it wants to make sure it's got a good installation. Here we can set the host name and domain name if we like. We can leave it the way it is. We can also opt to have it changed through DHCP if it's attached to a network and write the host name to it as the host file. One click next and it's going to move on. It's going to save the configuration and then it's going to look. It's analyzing our system right now. It's performing a, another check. It's detecting our network cards of course. And it's going to give us the general network settings that we see on the screen coming up. It'll go through and it'll detect a wide variety of networking devices, your network interface, any network cards that's in the computer, DSL connections, ISDN adapters, modems and so forth. Now, once you get these, uh, detected, you have the option of clicking on any of them and making changes if you se desire. For example, if it does not detect your network card the way you would like for it to or it does not write the correct settings for your cards. You can also change firewall options and, uh, proxy options and VNC remote administration if you choose during this part of the installation, but many times it's better to configure these items once the system is installed. You can configure all of these after the system's installed. Let's click next and move on. It's going to write configuration settings again and it wants to know if we want to test the configuration to the Internet. We can say yes, we want to check it and that just basically tells you if you have a good, clean connection to the Internet and if so, it will download the latest release notes for you and you'll see a test result of success if it was able to connect to the Internet. Now, usually for wireless networking, you don't have the option of configuring this on the fly during the, uh, installation. You can do it, but it's not the easiest thing in the world to do. We're going to click next and we're going to get an option of registration, of course. It's going to read our packages again that we've installed. It's going to read the repositories we've set up for the installation. And now it's going to ask us if we want to configure our online update. We can configure this now or later and basically this configures the system so that we can get online updates from Novell. We're going to go ahead and allow it to configure this now. It's going to contact the server on the Internet at Novell and it's going to download catalog information and other information it needs to be able to connect to Novell after the system has started and download updates and so forth. This is something you can do now while you're installing or something you can configure for later as well. It doesn't matter which way you do it. It's going to download a lot of information on patches that are available and so forth. Go ahead and let it download its patches at this point and then we'll come back in a moment and look at the third part of this demonstration so we can see what its done and so we can set up the rest of, uh, the installation.