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:
1.9.1 Add-On Products and Repositories
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.
1.9.2 Network Setup
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.
