Hi all,
Today i am going to write a simple but efficient installation tutorial for openSUSE 11.2 with taken snapshots to make it easy for every one. Let me elaborate a bit more about what i am going to use for this whole process.
If you don’t have openSUSE 11.2 CD yet, download it from here. I used 64bit KDE live CD for installation. PC details are:
- Intel Centrino Core 2 dual processor
- 4GB Ram
- Intel mobile series graphic card(Important here, because i didn’t use any ATI or Nvidia card)
So lets start the journey.
1- Burn the download ISO as an image in any burning software. Boot your computer from it. And after selecting KDE desktop you will see a screen like this in the below image for a live desktop.
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2- Click on the install icon on the desktop to start installation. After clicking you will see this screen. Choose your language, Keyboard and click Next.
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3- In this screen, select your time zone and click Next.
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4- This screen shows the suggested partition table by default. Click on “create partition setup” to create the desired partitions. If you want to use the suggested one, just click Next.
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5- Select “Custom partitioning” as showed in this screen and click Next.
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6- Choose your hard drive which in this case is ’sda’, which will show you the partitions in HDD already have. I have three NTFS partitions which i am not going to bother. So lets directly jump to ’sda4′ Extended partition. Which have ’sda5′, ’sda6′, ’sda7′ logical partitions. I have this setup by default, you can change and create new according to your need. Choose sda5 and click on ‘Edit’ button.
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7- By clicking on ‘Edit’ button above will bring this screen which will ask for different options to fill. Choose ‘Format partition’ as Ext4 or Ext3(Up to you). As this is going to be the root filesystem so we will use ‘/’ to mount it as root partition and click ‘Finish’.
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8- In this snapshot we can see the changes for ’sda5′ as ‘F’ and ‘/’, mean to format and use it as root.
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9- Leave ’sda6′ for Swap. You can create it according to your need. I have 4GB RAM, so i choose 4GB swap, which is too much. Swap always double the RAM size. But in case of 4GB RAM, 2/3/4 GB swap is enough to use.
10- I am not going to format ’sda7′, as it is already a backup drive and have files. So i will leave it as it is.
NOTE: Partitioning is always up to you. If don’t have 2nd OS, then proceed with sda1, sda2 etc etc. But in this case i have dual boot. sda1 have Windows 7, and now i am installing openSUSE 11.2. It means, i am using dual boot. Don’t worry nothing is going to be broke. You can install the grub from live CD if something went wrong. But i assure you, if you follow these steps, grub will automatically detect your 2nd OS.
11- Here you can see the details of the partitioning, which are going to take place. Read this carefully here and if something is wrong, go back and manage/edit it. And if everything seems fine, and just click Next.
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12- If until here, everything is OK. Then is the time to create user for the system. Enter your user name, password, un check “Use this password for administrator” and “Automatic login”. Click Next.
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13- Enter password for Root here.
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14- Now is the time to analyze the setup we make a while ago. Read all this carefully and go ahead by clicking on “Install” button.
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15- Confirm the installation.
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16- You can see here the installation progress.
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17- Click “Reboot Now” to reboot the system after installation finished.
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18- After reboot, openSUSE will setup some necessary things. On 1st reboot there will be no grub menu to offer selection for dual boot. Because its time for openSUSE to configure the system. After configuration it will go to login screen, where you enter your username and password. At the next reboot will bring up the grub menu to select OS.
Note: If something went wrong at the grub menu for multiple OS, so follow this tutorial to repair/install the grub again.
Good luck, enjoy openSUSE/Linux and have a lot of fun!
Arif
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Hi! Does opensusse support HSDPA-UMTS modems?
thank you!
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Hi mil,
Yup it does. Try to use the live CD of openSUSE and see whether it is detected or not. If not, you can follow the links provided at the end of this comment, which will help you setting up the modem.
swerdna openSUSE site Link-1
swerdna openSUSE site Link-2
sourceforge supported hardware
Good luck.
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What about the other way around. I have W7 already installed on my system and I want to install OS 11.2. I’m not Linux savy and I want to learn it.
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@Jeff:
The tutorial i wrote above is for the case similar to yours. I had also W7 installed and i install OS 11.2 from Live CD. Just follow the instructions and you will be fine with the installation of 11.2.
If you face any problems, we are here to help.
Good luck.
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I always dual booted on my prior PCs (XP and Linux). I have a newer desktop now, and I am guessing it is my RAID0 setup that is causing issues. After your step 8, I get an error advising that I do not have a separate boot record and that proceeding will cause “severe problems”. I have searched the net for a solution to this, but I cannot seem to locate a fix. Even if I go ahead and proceed with the intall, it locks up at 2%. Just seems really strange to me, it seemed so easy in the past. Any ideas?
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@Zac
I am not sure about the exact problem you are facing. But you could try these links to better understand what can be the possible solutions, to me it looks like something is broken or 11.2 is not getting to Raid0 at that point.
software RAID1 on 11.1 and 11.2 – does it work?
Best way to organize hard disks?
Good luck.
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Hi !
I have Windows 7 Installed with my system particulars being:
C: 39 GB,,20Gb free ( 7 is installed on C)
D: 97GB, used fully
E: 107GB, 40GB free
F:53.9GB, 21.7Gb free
I have 2.5gb RAM and Intel Core2 duo 1.4ghz processor..i want to have a dual boot with opensuse…so please tell me if i have to keep a drive empty for this installation or can it be installed in C: drive itself..also if you are suggesting another drive will the contents of the drive remain or will be formated?
Thanks
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Hi Aditya,
Let me elaborate a little in your case. You have 320GB HDD, you need to make space for openSUSE because Linux have different file system. From your partitioning, i can take E drive because it have at least some space empty.
Better idea here is to choose one drive to be fully spare for Linux. I assume it F partition. Transfer all your data to E from F partition. Leave F as blank with no data. So later you can format it and make filesystem for Linux. If you are done till here, then you are ready to go with openSUSE. Boot from Live CD now, untill partitioning step follow the tutorial above. And in partitioning step, lets say F is sda6 or maybe 7(Depends, if it is extended(logical)). Just format it with / for root with at least 25GB, swap at least 4GB, and the rest for your /home filesystem. Its a bit hard to completely underpin all the process here. But i hope, you get the idea and can implement it following the above steps.
NOTE: Becareful in partitioning step… Something went wrong in formating(format wrong partition), and you lost the data… so again becareful, read b4 hitting the accpet/Ok button. Make sure which partition to format and use for openSUSE. You can guess from empty space showing there for all partitions.
Try it, and let me know about the results. OR you can ask for further help without any worries.
Good luck
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“Just format it with / for root with at least 25GB, swap at least 4GB, and the rest for your /home filesystem”
Okay i will free one of my drives but i did not get this sentence..i am pretty new to linux installation..wat is root,swap..will there be three sub partitions?
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Root is the filesystem, where Linux will be installed. Swap is memory used with RAM if needed. These both are backbone of Linux system. Yup, that one partition will be divided into multiple parts. If you don’t need /home one, so lets assume your F drive is 53Gb, 4GB for Swap and the rest for root (/). Maybe around 46/7GB. So now you have two sub partitions. But if you want to create /home also, you can do this while partitioning the F drive. Its your chioce now. The benefit of doing this is, that you can backup your /home and use it later with your installed applications. A hazzel free stuff later in case you reinstalled 11.2.
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thanks a lot..i will get back to you if i hv more doubts..btw which linux wud u prefer ubuntu,fedora or opensuse?
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This is very tricky and smart question, for me i am using openSUSE 11.2 on my laptop and Ubuntu 9.04 in my office. Both are gr8 distors, fedora is also in this list. Now if you like KDE desktop, for sure i will suggest openSUSE with closing my eyes. Ubuntu is gr8 for Gnome and also newbies, but at the end i will suggest openSUSE.
openSUSE is gr8 distro and has gr8 community(forum).
Now its your chioce!!
But if you want to give Ubuntu a try, here is a simple tutorial from my another blog, which explains dual boot with Ubuntu and XP(almost the same as Vista, 7).
http://anl4u-pl.blogspot.com/2009/06/dual-boot-install-ubuntu-904-beside-m.html
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Hello, I am very new to linux. I am trying to follow your steps but I am still confused. Here is what I have on my laptop now.
Partition 1: 100MB – This is required by windows 7 when I install it.
Partition 2: 110GB – windows 7
Partition 3: 110GB – unused NTFS spaces.
I use “Custom” and click on sda3 and click next. After this point I donot know what to do.
When I use custom parition, it is trying to shrink my second drive (that is my windows installed drive).
I am afraid to go on further, can you lend a helping hand?
thanks.
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Hi Jim,
Your partitioning from default looks fine to me.
You have to partition sda3 further like:
swap, root filesystem
Swap depends on your RAM, you can read above comments for details.
When you select sda3, you have to click EDIT button down there and the rest you can follow up from the above tutorial. Take a look at step 7 above. Do the same for swap and root(/).
Or if this does not help, you can take screenshots and send to me..will try to assist you further hopefully.
Arif.
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JIM Reply:
January 4th, 2010 at 12:01 PM
Thanks for the quick reply. I will try that tomorrow afternoon. If not work, I will send you the screen shot using my camera (it will be smaller size file).
THANKS AGAIN!
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