322 Part III . (Web design careers) Choosing and Installing a
322 Part III . Choosing and Installing a Linux Distribution To get an account, select the Sign Up Here link from the SUSE Linux Portal page. If you have purchased your SUSE distribution, you can use that account to register your SUSE product. Having a registered SUSE product lets you use your account to get free installation information and other support services. At the time of this writing, SUSE was offering a free 30-day evaluation for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server if you wanted to download it. That evaluation included installation support and upgrade protection. Check the Novell (www.novell.com) and SUSE (www.suse.com) Web sites to see if any evaluation specials are available at the moment. Installing SUSE The SUSE installation procedure described here is for the SUSE Linux Personal-CD edition. This edition is available free of charge. Functionally, it is almost exactly the same as the boxed set version that SUSE sells, with only a few items removed that are not covered under a license in which they can be redistributed. The DVD that comes with this book includes the first CD in the SUSE Linux Personal- CD edition that you can copy and use. If you want to download the latest Personal-CD yourself, go to the SUSE download page (www.suse.com/us/private/download/ index.html). In either case, you will have to burn the CD image to a CD yourself. (See Appendix A for information on how to do that.) If you like SUSE and want a commercial version, select the Online Store link at the SUSE.com site. You can purchase a boxed set of the Personal edition, which includes installation support and hardcopy documentation, or you can choose one of the other editions, such as the SUSE Linux Professional or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server editions, which also include support and documentation. The installation description in this chapter covers installs on Intel x86 PCs. If you have AMD 64-bit or Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology systems, you need to purchase the SUSE Linux Professional boxed set, which includes installation media for both of those types of hardware. Before You Begin To install SUSE, you need at least 96MB of main memory. The entire SUSE Personal- CD installation requires about 1.8GB of disk space, although you can get by with less by deselecting packages during installation. Installation should work on any Pentium-class x86 PC. The description here tells how to install by booting the installation CD and installing the software from that medium. If you don t have a bootable CD, you can create a boot floppy from the floppy image on the CD. To see available boot images and descriptions of how to create boot floppies, refer to the README file in the /boot directory on the SUSE installation CD. Note Note
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