Operation Manual

• Installationon a typical home user systemor laptop equippedwith a single

processor,at least 512 MB RAM (1024 MB recommended),and 8 GB of free hard

disk space.

• Resizingof one Windowspartitionthat occupiesthe entire hard disk.

• Dual-bootinstallationwith Windows,limited to Linux Support.

• Installationof a local ATAPI CD or DVD drive.

• Installationfrom a remoteCD/DVD drive

•

Installation on the first or second hard disk in an IDE-only system(

/dev/sda

/dev/sdb

) or supported S-ATA system,excluding RAID.

• Integrationof a standard keyboard and standard mouse.

• Configurationof the graphicaluserinterface(withoutthe hardware acceleration

feature of the graphics card).

• Installationof the boot managerin the MBR of the firsthard diskwithoutmodi-

fying the BIOS mapping.

• Setupof Internet accesswith a supportedPCI ISDNcard or external serialmodem

(not USB). Conversely,setup of DSL based on PPPoE with a supportedNIC.

• Basic configuration of a supported WLAN adapter.

• Basic configuration of an ALSA-supported PCI sound card.

• Basic configurationof a locally-attachedcompatibleprinterwith YaST.

• Basicconfigurationof an IDE CD writerfor usewith k3b (CD burning application)

withoutchanging the jumper setting.

• Configurationof a supportedPCI ethernet card for LAN accesswith eitherDHCP

(client) or static IP. This does not include the configuration of the LAN or any

other computersor networkcomponents.It also does not cover the configuration

of the computeras a router. Fault analysis is limited to checkingfor proper

loading of the kernel module and the correct local networksettings.

• Configurationof an e-mailclient(Evolutionand KMail) for collectingmail from

a POP3 account.Fault analysis is limited to checkingfor proper settingsin the

e-mail client.

• Supportfor the package selectionKDE Desktopor GNOME Desktop.

• Upgradefrom the previousversionof the product.

• Kernel updates(only officialNovellupdateRPMs).

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