Portal:Installation

Welcome to the Installation Portal

Thanks for choosing openSUSE! We prepared some instructions to help your installation quick and easy.

openSUSE provides:

Tumbleweed, rolling release with latest and stable software
Leap, regular release with mature, complete software and 36 months support

Each release, you can choose different types of installation images to download: DVD and Network. DVD image contains all packages needed for installation and is perfect for offline installation. Network image is very small and downloads system and packages from online repositories.

You can write installation images to either DVD/CD disks or USB sticks. Always keep an installation media in case you need to rescue system.

The installation can take some time (well over half a hour) to detect some hardware combinations so be very patient during initial driver install from boot media (green line at bottom of screen reaches 100% well before all drivers installed) as you might think you are dealing with an installation failure.

Topics

Download the latest release

Create installation media

DVD
USB stick
CD (only for Network installation)

Installation instructions

Installation Quick Start (simple)
Installation with YaST (detailed)

Network installation

Network installation
Remote installation Advanced!

Language package installation

Language specific installation

Official openSUSE documentation

Current Leap release

Download old releases

Things to Do

To be done:

Streamlining of SDB:System upgrade
Include SDB:Instlux possibility in the documentation and upgrade article with some screen shots
Prepare openSUSE 42.2 installation docs. (SDB:DVD installation for 42.2)

Work in progress:

Writing of SDB:Partitioning with useful information about various partition schemes possible during installation.
Writing of SDB:File_system explain to beginners how the file-system in linux works.

Done:

Writing of SDB:Installation on external hard drive extra steps to the normal installation. (Screenshots uploaded) --Muhlemmer
Upgrade SDB:Network installation to the latest versions and some screenshots
Fill the Welkom to... box on this portal (on top) with something usefull
Moving Category:SDB:Installation to portal, articles that belong here.
Created this portal with releases box and category tree in right collomn --Muhlemmer
Filled screenshots box with content --Muhlemmer
Filled topics box with most typical installation resources and download links --Muhlemmer
Create a sub-category structure for easier navigation --Muhlemmer