Guide to Installing Open SUSE Linux 10.3

What you need:

1) A CD with Open Suse 10.3

Get yourself over to http://www.opensuse.org/ and download the Base CD (CD-KDE)
Do not download the Live Version, make sure it is the Base CD Version.

Once downloaded, burn the ISO image to a CD
	
2) A PC or server with a minimum spec of P3 1gHz,  512MB, 20gB HDD, network card, CD or DVD Drive.
             (Make sure the machine is set to boot from CD-ROM, it would also be easier if the drive is formatted down)

3) An internet connection.

4) Access to your router to enable port forwarding.

The Install

1) Boot your PC from CD-ROM

2) Wait for SUSE setup to load and choose the second option – Installation

3) On the Media Check screen, click on START CHECK

4) Once the check has finnished we know your SUSE CD is good to go, so click NEXT

5) On the License Agreement screen, agree to the license and click NEXT

6) On the Installation Mode screen, Select New Installation, and make sure the box is ticked to Add Online Repositories, then click NEXT

7) On the Network Setup screen, Select Yes, Run the Network Setup, then click NEXT

8) Choose Automatic Address Setup (via DHCP) then ACCEPT (this may be dependent on your own network)
if succesful the install should start scanning and getting a list of online repositories

9) On the List or Online Repositories screen, Tick the Main Repository (NON-OSS) and Main Repository (OSS) boxes, then click NEXT
     This may take a while!

10) On the Clock and Time Zone screen, Choose your Region and Time Zone, Change the Date and Time if required. Then click NEXT

11) On the installation Settings screen, Click ACCEPT to start the install. (You can of course make and specific changes to HDD partitions here)

12) You will have several license agreements to accept, click I Agree on them all, then click INSTALL on the final window.

13) The install process will begin, and time remaining will be displayed in the top right.

At the end your system will REBOOT itself.

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The Setup

1) On the password page, Choose a password for the root user, and confirm it. Click NEXT
    (try a password with numbers and letters if possible)

2) On the Host Name and Domain page, Choose a name for your server under HOSTNAME, eg WEBSERVER then click NEXT

3) On the Netwok Configuration page, just click NEXT (You can specify network settings here if you wish)

4) On the test internet connection screen, Choose Yes, Test Connection to the internet and click NEXT

5) After it has downloaded the release notes you will see the message Success, Now click NEXT

6) On the online update configuration page, Choose Configure Now (Recommended) and make sure that Hardware
Profile is checked and also Optional Information is checked, then click NEXT SUSE will now download and build
the software repository, this will take a while (If it fails to connect at any time during this process, choose back and retry)

7) Click OK after the update, Where you see the message Online Update Configuration

8) On the Online Update page, Choose Run Update, Click NEXT

9) Click accept and install the patch or patches, click NEXT and OK after each update to rescan for patches, 
you may have to do this several times depending on how many updates and patches are currently available.
The system may also reboot during the updates and then continue with more updates.
Once finished and the progress has reached 100%, click NEXT, again it may need an OK to reboot and continue.

10) On the User Authentification Method screen, Select Local (/etc/passwd) Authentication Method, then click NEXT

11) Enter your users Full Name, Logon/Username and Password,
      un-tick Automatic Login, when done, click NEXT

12) Click NEXT on the Release Notes page.

13) On the Hardware Configuration page, Choose Use Following Configuration, and click NEXT

14) On the Installation Completed page click Finish

15) You will be able to login with your Username and Password (Do not do this yet)

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Remember you have just created Two USER Accounts

User: root              Password: the one you entered in number 1 above.
User: yourname    Password: the one you entered in number 11 above.

Unless you are installing software or specifically required to by various install guides,
you should not need to log in as root. Just login as YOU.

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Installing the Software we will need

1) Login as root

2) Click on the START MENU in the bottom left (icon of a gecko) and then click COMPUTER and choose Administrator Settings (YaST)

3) Click on Software in the left hand pane, then on Software management in the right window

4) In the Search box, type apache and click Search

5) In the right hand window a list of files has been created, find apache2 and tick the box next to it,
then find apache_mod_php5 and tick that as well. Now click Accept.

6) A window will open with a list of lots of other packages, click on Continue.

7) A pop up will ask if you wish to install more packages, select YES

8) In the Search box, type mysql and click Search

9) In the right hand window a list of files has been created, find mysql and tick the box next to it,
then find phpMyAdmin and tick that as well. Now click Accept.

10) A window will open with a list of lots of other packaages, click on Continue.

11) A pop up will ask if you wish to install more packages, select NO

12) Close YaST

13) Clcik on START, Then LEAVE, and choose LOGOUT, Click on CONFIRM

14) You are now ready to Proceed to the next GUIDE (Installing Apache, PHP and MYSQL)