After a system analysis where YaST tries to find other installed systems or an already existing openSUSE system on your machine, YaST displays the installation modes available:
Select this option to start a new installation from scratch.
Select this option to update to a newer version. For more information
about system update, see Section 5.0, Updating the System and System Changes,
(↑ Reference ).
This option provides an opportunity to abort the installation and boot or repair an installed system instead. More information on repairing an installed system is available in Section 13.6.3, Recovering a Corrupted System.
You can also choose to install add-on products or add default repositories with additional software together with your openSUSE. Add-on products are official extensions for your openSUSE, for example non-open source software, extra languages, or proprietary third-party products. A repository maintains and distributes a collection of software packages. With the default repositories you configure access to software packages available on the Internet. Among others, the list of repositories includes the official ftp distribution of openSUSE. Repositories added here are activated immediately and are available during the installation.
It is also possible to configure additional repositories at any time in the installed systems (see Section 3.5, Adding Software Repositories. Using Add-On Products in the installed system is described in Section 3.6, Installing Add-On Products.
To include add-on products during the installation of openSUSE, select , click and specify the product source. Source types available are CD, DVD, a local directory or a URL. Depending on the source's content it may be necessary to accept additional license agreements. After the add-on product has successfully been added, you can further product add-ons or existing ones.
IMPORTANT: Choosing add-products available on the Internet is only possible if you either have successfully configured the network as described in Section 1.9.2, Network Setup or are running a network installation.
To add default repositories select . A predefined list of repositories is downloaded from the openSUSE server. Click on a repository name to see a description; choose one or more repositories by ticking the check box(es). Specify a on long repository lists to narrow down the number of entries. Depending on the repository's content it may be necessary to accept additional license agreements.
IMPORTANT: Adding default repositories is only possible if you either have successfully configured the network as described in Section 1.9.2, Network Setup or are performing a network installation.
If you have chosen to configure add-on products or default repositories and you are not running a network installation, a network setup step is offered first. While a working network is a requirement if you want to add default repositories, it is only needed with add-on products if you want to add product sources available on the Internet.
Choose to start the network configuration. If more than one network card is found, you have to choose a card to configure from the list.
IMPORTANT: Wired Ethernet Cards Only
It is only possible to configure wired ethernet adapters at this stage. If your computer is equipped with other network devices (e.g. wireless network adapters), you have to configure the network at a later stage (see Section 1.14.3, Network for more information).
If the network adapter is not already connected, a warning will open. Make sure the network cable is plugged in and choose . In following dialog the actual network configuration is done. If your network is equipped with a DHCP server, choose . To manually set up the network choose and specify , , , and the .
Some networks require the use of a proxy server to access the Internet. Tick the check box and enter the appropriate specifications. Click to perform the network setup. The installation procedure will continue with the add-on products or repositories setup as described in Section 1.9.1, Add-On Products and Repositories.