To change the keyboard layout, select Keyboard Layout. By default, the layout corresponds to the language chosen for installation.

Select the keyboard layout from the list. Use the Test field at the bottom of the dialog to check if you can enter special characters of that layout correctly. Find more information about changing the keyboard layout in Section 8.4.10, “Keyboard Layout”. When finished, click Accept to return to the installation summary.

►zseries: On the IBM System z platforms, the installation is performed from a remote terminal. The host as such has no keyboard or mouse locally connected to it. ◄

In most cases, YaST proposes a reasonable partitioning scheme that can be accepted without change. YaST can also be used to customize the partitioning, but only experienced users should change partitioning.

When you select the partitioning item in the suggestion window for the first time, the YaST partitioning dialog displays the proposed partition settings. To accept these settings, click Accept Proposal.

To make small changes in the proposal, select Base Partition Setup on This Proposal and adjust partitioning in the next dialog. For completely different partitioning, select Create Custom Partition Setup. In the next dialog, choose the disk to partition or Custom Partitioning. The YaST partitioner provides a tool for LVM creation. To create an LVM proposal, select Create LVM Based Proposal. For more information about custom partitioning, refer to Section 8.5.7, “Using the YaST Partitioner”.

The partitioning scheme proposed should have sufficient disk space. If implementing your own partitioning scheme, consider the following recommendations concerning the requirements for different system types.

SUSE Linux Enterprise contains a number of software packages for various application purposes. Click Software in the suggestion window to start the software selection and modify the installation scope according to your needs. Select your categories from the list in the middle and see the description in the right window. Each category contains a number of software packages that meet most requirements for that category. For more detailed selection of software packages to install, select Details to switch to the YaST Package Manager. See Figure 3.5, “Installing and Removing Software with the YaST Package Manager”.

You can also install additional software packages or remove software packages from your system at any time later. For more information, refer to Section 8.3.1, “Installing and Removing Software” .

	Default Desktop
The default desktop of SUSE Linux Enterprise is GNOME. To install KDE, click Software and select KDE Desktop Environment from Graphical Environments.

Figure 3.5. Installing and Removing Software with the YaST Package Manager

To change the system language or to configure support for secondary languages, select Language. Select the language from the list. The primary language is used as the system language. To have support for other languages, select these languages as secondary languages. For more information, see Section 8.5.15, “Language Selection”.

The Overview tab in the Installation Settings dialog provides only basic options. If you are an advanced user and want to configure booting or change the time zone or default runlevel, select the Expert tab. It shows the following additional entries not contained on the Overview tab: