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Christopher Negus

"Linux Bible, 2008 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions"


At this point, refer to the ???Creating Linux CDs??? section later in this appendix for information on
burning the CD image to a physical CD.
openSUSE Linux
The openSUSE Linux 10.3 installation CD lets you install the SUSE Linux operating system to your
hard drive from software downloaded over the network. SUSE Linux is developed and supported
by Novell, which offers SUSE as part of a wider range of enterprise-ready Linux and NetWare software.
openSUSE is the Novell-sponsored, community-supported free Linux.
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Media A
To begin installing openSUSE to your hard disk, insert the CD into your PC??™s CD drive, reboot, and
type the following from the boot prompt:
boot: suse
To install openSUSE from this CD, follow the installation instructions in Chapter 10.
Finding Linux Distributions on the CD
The CD that comes with this book boots directly to a variety of smaller live and install CDs. The
live/install CDs included on this CD include Debian (network install), Gentoo (network install),
Damn Small Linux (live/install), and INSERT (security CD), System Rescue CD, SLAX, and Puppy
Linux live CDs. Coyote Linux is contained on a tar/gzip that you copy to a hard disk and build into
a floppy Linux distribution from instructions in Chapter 18.
Debian GNU/Linux
The network install ISO image of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution is contained on the CD.


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