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Installation with YaST
Installation — Safe Settings Boots the system with the DMA mode (for
CD-ROM drives) and any interfering power management functions
disabled. Experts can also use the command line to enter or change
kernel parameters.
Manual Installation By default, drivers are loaded automatically during
the installation. If this appears to cause problems, use this option to
load drivers manually. However, this does not work if you use a USB
keyboard on your machine.
Rescue System If you are unable to boot into your installed Linux sys-
tem for some reason, you can boot the computer from the DVD or
CD1 and select this item. This starts a rescue system — a minimal
Linux system without a graphical user interface, which allows ex-
perts to access disk partitions for troubleshooting and repairing an
installed system. Less experienced users can alternatively use the sys-
tem repair tool supplied with YaST. Refer to Chapter 6 on page 185
for details.
Memory Test (only x86 systems) This tests your system RAM by means
of repeated read and write cycles. This is done in an endless loop,
because memory corruption often shows up very sporadically and
many read and write cycles might be necessary to detect it. If you sus-
pect that your RAM might be defective, start this test and let it run for
several hours. If no errors are detected after a longer time period, you
can assume that the memory is intact. Terminate the test by rebooting.
Use the function keys, as indicated in the bar at the bottom of the screen, to
change a number of installation settings, if needed.
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F1 Access context-sensitive help — help for the currently active screen
element of the boot screen.
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F2 Select different graphical display modes for the installation. Also in-
cluded is an entry to select the text mode, which is useful if the instal-
lation in graphical mode causes problems for some reason.
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F3 Choose among different installation media. Normally, install from the
inserted installation disk, but in some cases you may want to select
another source, such as FTP or NFS. The SLP (service location proto-
col) entry allows you to access an SLP server in the network, which
in turn gives access to a selection of installation media as made avail-
able by that server. Details of the SLP protocol are discussed in Sec-
tion 21.6 on page 455.
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