Quick Start Guide
TIP: Installation without a Mouse
If the installer does not detect your mouse correctly, use [Tab] for navigation, arrow
keys to scroll, and [Enter] to conrm a selection. Various buttons or selection elds
contain a letter with an underscore. Use [Alt] + [Letter] to select a button or a
selection directly instead of navigating there with the [Tab] button.
1.6 Welcome
Start the installation of openSUSE by choosing your language. Changing the language
will automatically preselect a corresponding keyboard layout. Override this proposal
by selecting a dierent keyboard layout from the drop-down menu. The language
selected here is also used to assume a time zone for the system clock. This set-
ting—along with the selection of secondary languages to install on your system—can
be modied later in the Installation Summary, described in Section 1.12, “Installation
Settings” (page 20). For information about language settings in the installed system,
see Chapter 9, Changing Language and Country Settings with YaST (↑Reference).
Read the license agreement that is displayed beneath the language and keyboard
selection thoroughly. Use License Translations... to access translations. If you agree
to the terms, click Next to proceed with the installation. If you do not agree to the
license agreement click Abort to terminate the installation.
Figure 1.2 Welcome
1.7 Installation Mode
After a system analysis (where YaST probes for storage devices and tries to nd
other installed systems on your machine) the available installation modes are dis-
10 Start-Up