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Installation with YaST
Install your openSUSE® system with YaST, the central tool for installation and con-
guration of your system. YaST guides you through the installation process and the basic
conguration of your system. During the installation and conguration process, YaST
analyzes both your current system settings and your hardware components and proposes
installation settings based on this analysis. By default, YaST displays an overview of
all installation steps on the left hand side of the window and provides online help texts
for each step. Click Help to view the help text.
If you are a rst-time user of openSUSE, you might want to follow the default YaST
proposals in most parts, but you can also adjust the settings as described here to ne-
tune your system according to your preferences. Many parts of the basic system con-
guration, such as user accounts or system language, can also be modied after the in-
stallation process.
1.1 Choosing the Installation Media
When installing openSUSE, choose from several media available either online or in
the retail box:
DVD-retail
One DVD containing the openSUSE distribution for 32bit and 64bit systems. The
second medium contains proprietary add-on software.
This installation option does not require any network access for installation, nor
do you need to set up external repositories to install the full openSUSE. You can,
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