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Hard Disk Requirements
The disk requirements depend largely on the installation. Commonly, you need
more space than the installation software itself needs to have a system that works
properly. Minimal requirements for different selections are:
System
Minimal X Window System
GNOME Desktop
KDE Desktop
All patterns
Boot Methods
The computer can be booted for installation from DVD, USB hard drive, floppy,
or the network. A special boot server is required to boot over the network. This
boot server can be configured with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. To use USB
hard drives, the BIOS or firmware must support booting from USB devices. Create
an bootable USB hard drive with mkbootdisk, which is found on the first instal-
lation DVD in the directory /boot/i386/ or /boot/x86_64. For more infor-
mation, read the documentation below the /boot directory.
2.2.2 Hardware for Itanium
The Itanium architecture is 64-bit and allows operation of large servers.
CPU
Itanium II (older Itanium CPUs are no longer supported). Dual core CPUs and
hyperthreading are also supported.
Maximum Number of CPUs
At most, 4096 CPUs are supported. For the calculation of the CPU count, a dual-
core CPU counts as two CPUs and a hyperthreaded CPU with two siblings also
counts as two CPUs. 1024 CPUs could mean 512 dual cores, 512 single cores with
hyperthreading, or 256 dual cores with hyperthreading.
Hard Disk Requirements
1.2 GB
3.2 GB
2.7 GB
10 GB
Installation on x86, AMD64, Intel 64, and Itanium
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