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In this third part of the demonstration, we'll complete our installation of openSUSE 10.3. During this part, we've did the online update, we've registered our packages and stuff and now we're going to go ahead and complete the installation. It tells us that our configuration was successful and we've added an update server. Now we can go ahead and run online update now or we can run it after the installation. For the purposes of brevity during this installation, we're going to go ahead and skip it for now. We can run it later on after the installation is complete. So moving on to the next step, we're going to go ahead and configure users. We're going to go ahead and configure an authentication method first. We have several options. First of all there's the local option. Any users you configure with this option will be located on the computer itself. Any other options, such as LDAP or NIS or Windows domain will come from a network-based distributed database, such as Windows active directory for example. So we can pull users from that active directory database and use Windows users accounts to log on to the SUSE box. Let's go ahead and stick with local authentication method for now. We'll look at configuring some of the other methods later when we talk about how openSUSE integrates and networks and it's going to ask us for a user and we're going to put a user in here. We want to put the user's full name, what you would like the user name to be and finally a password. Now, we have the option of automatic log-in this user, but that's not normally a good security practice. So let's go ahead and uncheck this box. If you're in a small home environment and you want to do this, it's probably OK but again, it could be a security problem. Let's click next. It's going to write our user and group configuration to the database and then it's going to write some more system configuration data. Again, it will do this several times during installation. It's not a big deal. It just wants to make sure it has a good, clean installation and every time you make a change, it needs to write those changes to the configuration database. Now that it's configured the users, we get the opportunity to look at the release notes and these are the newest release notes that it downloaded when we set up our network configuration. You can read these on your own, uh, during installation or you can read them afterwards, of course. Let's go ahead and click next and we're going to get one more configuration option here now. That's our hardware configuration. It's going to analyze our system and make sure it has detected all the hardware that it can find and make sure that we agree with what it has detected. We'll get the option to leave it as is or change the, uh, configuration settings. You're going to see your computer screen blink a few times as it detects a video and so forth. That's normal and then it will start YAS again, uh, and we'll get back into the configuration settings. This may take some time and once again, you may see your screen blink in various odd ways during its detection. Finally, once it detects, you should see it come up and list the hardware that it finds. We're going to see graphics cards show, printers, sound cards, TV cards, Bluetooth, um, a wide variety of hardware, peripherals that may be, may be listed. This time we have the option of, uh, configuring different options such as our, uh, our monitor depth and color and so forth, printers, sound, TV cards or Bluetooth. We can also change these after installation and most of the time it's probably better to do that because it's easier to configure a system once it's fully installed rather than during installation sometimes. Let's click next and at this point it's going to tell us that we have a completely installed system and we also have an option down here that's pretty neat; clone this system for auto-YAS. I'm going to check that. What that does is create an XML file that has all the options we selected and information about hardware and other configuration data and the next time we install to this particular machine, we can use this auto-YAS file and it will answer all the questions for us and configure it the way we, uh, configured this system. So if we have one good system configured, we can redo it again. I'm going to go ahead and click finish and it's going to write the profile that we've used into the auto-install, auto-install, autoinst.xml file for auto-YAS. And it may go ahead and install or change driver configurations and other things while it's doing this. All in all, configuring, installing and configuring openSUSE is a very easy process. It goes through a very simple, logical flow and even a novice, uh, computer person, someone who's never installed Linux before, should be able to install openSUSE, uh, very easily and with a few, minimum of configuration options and questions that they would need to answer during installation. This is a very intuitive operating system in terms of installation. After the installation completes, it's going to reboot and we'll have the option to login to a normally, uh, completely installed openSUSE system. Now that the installation is complete, we're given the option of logging in to the openSUSE system. Let's login and we'll see our desktop pop up. Since our login is root, it's going to tell me that we're running this session as a privileged user and that we should be careful because for security reasons, a lot of privileges, uh, can damage the computer or processes can run under the root user. We'll talk about securing the root account later on. Right now let's click continue and then we should be getting our default desktop, which we installed as GNOME. You can tell it's GNOME because of the little footprint there. And then we get a splash screen and that's going to take us to our desktop. And this is our default GNOME desktop. We're going to cover desktops, such as GNOME and KDE in a future lesson. And that's all there is to installing openSUSE.