After a system analysis where YaST tries to find other installed systems or an already existing openSUSE system on your machine, YaST displays the installation modes available. Select New installation or Update an existing system. Updating is only possible if an openSUSE system is already installed. The Other option is useful for the following cases: to boot an already installed openSUSE system or to repair an installed system which fails to boot. In this cases, select Other Options to access Boot Installed System or Repair Installed System. If no openSUSE system is installed, you can only perform a new installation.

The following sections describe the procedure of installing a new system. Find a description of the system repair options in Section 13.6.3.1, “Using YaST System Repair”.

You can choose to install add-on products together with your openSUSE system during the initial installation process or at any time later as described Section 3.4, “Installing Add-On Products”. Add-on products are extensions for your system and can include proprietary third-party products (such as Acrobat Reader*, RealPlayer*, etc.) and additional languages for your system.

The openSUSE installation media include support for the following languages:

For further languages use the language add-on medium.

For a detailed overview of the add-on media and add-on products which ship with openSUSE, refer to the openSUSE Release Notes.

Figure 1.4. Installation Mode

To include add-on products during the installation of openSUSE, select Include Add-On Products from Separate Media and click Next. In the next dialog, click Add to select the source from which to install the add-on products. You can select various types of media, like CD, FTP or local directory. After successfully adding the add-on media, you may have to agree to additional licenses for third-party products. The added source for add-on media appears in the overview.

The following sections describe the procedure of installing a new system. Find a description of the system repair options in Section 13.6.3.1, “Using YaST System Repair”.