Beginner's guide to Linux: openSuSE 11.1 installation guide

[onlyKRIZAN]

this is the FIRST video where I increased the volume. Great song. Great song choice. I noticed you suggest stand-alone HDD for Suse. I have partitioned Vista HDD for Suse placement.Not too shure about installing it there. I bought openSuse 11 year and half ago.How it would work if I installed another HDD? On boot-up would it give me a choice? Thanks and for the song also. I saved it.

[PetriJarvenpaa]

@onlyKRIZAN First of all, I strongly suggest you go download openSUSE 12.1 which is the latest and completely free. If you have partiotioned your drive already and know what you are doing its completely fine to install openSUSE there. When booting openSUSE provides a boot menu which allows you to choose between Vista and openSUSE.

[moxoloxom]

if we want to dual-boot and prepare a free-space on hard-drive, @ 1:50 is there "use free space" option on this part?

[PetriJarvenpaa]

@moxoloxom Sorry I cant remember how it is precisely, but I believe it should autodetect your existing Windows partition and offer to resize it (given there is enough free space) to make room for Linux partition(s). Use free space option means if the drive has completely unallocated (un-formatted) space on it, then it can use that. Otherwise it should allow to shrink existing partitions.

[moxoloxom]

@PetriJarvenpaa thank you very much for reply, happy new year :-)

[MrGadniara12]

i have problem i shrinked 140 gb and it says that it is not enought ???? WTH ?!?!?!

pls help

[ProphetNexus]

Hey i realize this video is older but do you think you can help, when i try to install openSuse (newest version) I get to the part where is says loading the kernel and while loading some black squares pop up along the top of my screen, once the kernel finishes loading my screen goes black and I get presented with the text set up, I don't get the GUI.

If you know how to fix this that would be fantastic if not don't worry about it.

[PetriJarvenpaa]

@ProphetNexus This is during the boot from CD/DVD? Sounds like it does not correctly detect your monitor or gfxcard, which is bit weird since I never had that problem. I would start by getting different kind of install media, so if you tried DVD, get a KDE or gnome livecd, or vice versa. Also if that does not help, try with different monitor, or if using VGA on flatscreen, try DVI cable if that is not possible, try to get through the install in text mode. More help > forums.opensuse.org

[RapierMedia]

If installing Linux, do you have to install over windows or can you run both operating systems.

[PetriJarvenpaa]

@RapierMedia You can have both installed, it is called "dual booting". I suggest installing on different hard drive than windows, just in case.

[RapierMedia]

if I were to install this on my windows 7 computer, would I have to replace windows 7 or can I use it as a second operating system?

[PetriJarvenpaa]

@RapierMedia openSUSE should detect your existing Windows and be able to resize Windows partition to fit openSUSE in your drive aswell. I would suggested that if you have second hard drive available you would install openSUSE on that. But either way openSUSE detects the Windows and enables you to choose between the operation systems during the boot.

[jamho93]

mitä täs on mitä ubuntussa ei oo...niinku vaa et mikä niis on ero?

[PetriJarvenpaa]

@jamho93 Jos oot tyytyväinen Ubuntuun niin ei ole mitään syytä vaihtaa. OpenSUSE on mielestäni vähän power user-ystävällisempi, ts. siitä löytyy työkaluja (Yast) aika lailla kaiken mahdollisen hallintaan (tietokannoista palvelimiin ja palomuureihin).

[Populist1488]

Damn, this music sucks. 

[arttuinen]

@Populist1488 at first i thougth that this is Rebecca Black - Friday

[coolsmaran]

I have a Windows 7 on my C: Drive and i have alloted space on another drive for SUSE. even after selecting that particular drive i still the Warning message that all the other partitions will be formatted, as you showed in your video guide. how to i create a dual boot?

[PetriJarvenpaa]

@coolsmaran Not knowing your situation exactly I can not say for sure, but the installer should leave the existing Windows drive alone, or at least resize it to fit openSUSE. What does it say in the "Suggested Partitioning" screen? Does it actually want to delete all your parititions? In your case the Windows7 partition is probably referred as /dev/sda2, so if it is going to delete that instead of resizing I would not go any further with the install (just in case).

[PetriJarvenpaa]

@coolsmaran If you are feeling adventurous. click on the "Edit Partition Setup" button and do it manually. Clicking the button, will show you how the system would partition it for you, but you can click on "Rescan Devices" to get to the original state and go from there manually, of course this requires bit more knowledge to accomplish, but is no way impossible to accomplish. Safest solution is to add completely new hard drive to your system and have dedicated drives for both Windows and Linux.

[TKKG90]

Whats easier to handle UBUNTU or opensuse ?

Or could someone tell me the Pros and the Contras?

[longbonegrunter]

My wifes laptop died recently. Of course new laptops never come with a restore cd and the restore partition was corrupted. I installed this last night with Gnome after having problems with KDE. seems great so far just have to dig in and get my fill. . . Wife loves it she can browse the net all day with no crashes like with Windoze.

[PetriJarvenpaa]

Yes another nice thing about using Linux is that you do not spend your money or the computing power to running anti-virus software. Also if you look to other desktops than KDE and Gnome you can also run Linux on pretty old machines. OpenSUSE DVD contains a lightweight desktop called XFCE, which will give your better performance at the cost of functionality, but that's just fine when you want to just surf the net safely.

[badgerboy14]

free beer sounds awsome, ive just finished downloading suse now thanks

[Insanity0107]

It's not free beer, it's free speech...

[badgerboy14]

is suse free ?, if so can someone sent me a download link ??

[PetriJarvenpaa]

You can not post links on youtube. Just google "opensuse download" and it is the first link. And yes, it is completely free as in free beer and free speech ;)

[123456iambelial]

I have never use a linux base OS before.

1. Did you install this within Windows or did you restarted your PC and booted to CD?

2. Does opensuse have a 64bit version? I saw the x86-64, but I am not sure it that 64bit.

3. Which one is better Ubuntu 9.04 or opensuse 11.1?

4. When I visited the opensuse website and tried to download the ISO, I saw a bunch of ISO for x86_64. I don't know which one to get. What is the difference between the CD version and the DVD version?

Thanks

[PetriJarvenpaa]

Hi.

1.) I installed from bootable DVD which I indeed booted from. You can download the image from openSuSE's website, which you then need to burn to DVD. There are also CD's available, but if you got the bandwidth then get the DVD.

2.) Yes it has, x86-64 is just that!

3.) If you're asking my opinion, then obviously openSuSE 11.1. It has a bit more professional feeling to it, in my opinion. But I can not say which suits you better, you should try both I think.

[PetriJarvenpaa]

4.) Difference is that if you get the DVD then you have a lot of software installable straight from the DVD and if you get the CD you need to download most of the stuff from the net. You can use both, but DVD gives you option to choose your desktop (ie. KDE or GNOME) or install both and CD's include just one, which you need to choose when you download. Those CD's are also live-cd's, which mean you can boot from them (without installing anything) and testdrive the OS.

[123456iambelial]

What is GNOME? also what is KDE?

Do you use any Antivirus?

[PetriJarvenpaa]

Gnome and KDE are the two (major) Desktop Environments for Linux. Unlike Windows the Linux Desktop side (graphical user interface) is decoupled from the OS core. That means you can choose how your graphical user interface (the Desktop) looks like and acts like. You can just try either one and if it does not suit you, then you can change it, I recommend KDE4 but your mileage may vary ;)

No need for antivirus as there currently are no free spreading worms or virus for Linux.