Operation Manual

About This Guide

This manual will seeyou through your initial contact with openSUSE®.Check out

the variouspartsof this manual to learn how to install,use and enjoy your system.

Installation and Setup

Guides you through the installationprocessand the basic configurationof your

system.Introduces YaST, the central tool for installation and configurationof your

system.Learn how to set up or modify key componentsof your system and how

to connect to the internet.

Basics

This part mainly addressesto userschanging to Linux from other operatingsys-

tems. It introduces basic Linux conceptssuch as the user concept,the structure

of the file system and access permissions for files and directories.An introduction

to the shell is also provided,althoughyou hardly everneed the commandline to

interactwith your system nowadays.

Help and Troubleshooting

Provides an overviewof where to find help and additional documentationin case

you need more information or want to perform specifictaskswith your system.

Also find a compilationof the most frequentproblems and annoyancesand learn

how to solve theseproblems on your own.

This manual documentsmilestone 7 of openSUSE 11.4.

Many chaptersin this manual contain links to additional documentationresources.

This includes documentationthat is available on the systemas well as documentation

availableon the Internet.

For an overviewof the documentationavailable for your product and the latest doc-

umentation updates,refer to

http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse114

to the following section.

1 Available Documentation

We provide HTML and PDF versionsof our books in different languages.The following

manuals for users and administratorsare available on this product:

Start-Up (page 1)

Guides you step-by-stepthrough the installationof openSUSEfrom DVD, or from

an ISO image, gives short introductionsto the GNOME and KDE desktopsincluding

some key applicationsrunning on it. Also gives an overviewof LibreOfficeand its

modules for writing texts, working with spreadsheets,or creating graphics and

presentations.