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4. The SuSE welcome screen appears.
The installation procedure is like any other version of SuSE Linux. This will let
you select your installation method or boot a rescue environment.
5. Select Linux and press Enter to begin the installation. This will boot the
YaST2 software that will help you to select the packages that you may want to
install. It will also help you with the hardware configuration and then will install
all the packages.
Installation
To configure your system and select your packages, here are the steps you will
encounter while installing SuSE SLES 8:
1. License Agreement.
2. Language Selection. English is the default.
3. Installation Mode Selection, where you can choose between different
installation methods. The default installation should be sufficient. If you need
to add or remove packages, you can always do it later.
4. Installation Settings, where you can select what you want to install and where.
5. Package Installation, that is the part of the installation that copies the files
from the installation CDs and installs the packages.
6. Prepare for the initial boot, that is the part of the installation that runs the
configuration scripts and installs the boot manager.
Once all your packages are copied to the hard disk, reboot the server.
Once the system rebooted, on the EFI menu select SuSE SLES to start the
Linux boot process. This entry will also be configured to be the default entry to
boot, so if you do not press any key, the system will automatically boot SuSE
SLES.
You can modify your boot settings EFI boot maintenance menu and the
elilo.conf file as we discuss later.
The remainder of the installation is completed. The first time SuSE SLES 8
boots, it will finish configuring your system. This will boot the graphical
interface and then YaST will be launched. If you encounter problems during
this first boot, refer to 4.3.5, "Linux boot process" on page 107.
7. Root password: the installation program will ask you to enter a password for
the root user.
8. Add user: the installation program will ask you to create a user. You need to
create this user to continue the installation. This is done for security reasons.
You should log on as a normal user, and use the root account as little as
possible.
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