- Don’t be alarmed if a screen full of text flying by appears. Just let it continue.
- A “welcome” screen of sorts will appear. Review the info, and then click the Close link.
- At last, the openSUSE desktop. Because you’re using a LiveCD, you can actually play around with openSUSE now. You’ll be connected to the Internet and can surf. Or you can check out some of the included programs. At this point, if you decide openSUSE just isn’t for you, release your keyboard and mouse from the virtual machine by clicking ctrl+alt. Then click the “red square” (stop) button in the upper-right corner of Parallels Desktop. That will power off the virtual machine.
If you like what you see, and you want to completely install openSUSE, keep reading.
- Double-click the Live Installer icon on the openSUSE desktop.
- Select your language and keyboard layout from the drop-down menus. Review the License Terms, and place a check in the box labeled I Agree to the License Terms. Click Next.
- Choose your country from the Region: list, and time zone from the Time Zone: list. Click Next.
- Unless you really know what you’re doing, it’s a good idea to leave the Suggested Partitioning settings as their defaults. Again, click Next.
- Enter in all the required info in the appropriate fields. Click Next.
- If openSUSE feels that your password is too simple, it’ll tell you so. If you really do want to use that password, click Yes. If you want to change it to something more secure, click No and enter a new one.
- At this point you’ll be presented with a summary screen. Review the info to make sure it’s correct, and then click the Install button.
- The installation confirmation page looks a bit intimidating. Remember, openSUSE will be running in a virtual environment. Your existing Mac data will not be erased, touched or altered in any way. You’re safe. Click Install again.
- And now the installation will begin. Go grab yourself a cup of coffee or the beverage of your choice. Watching the openSUSE install isn’t much more entertaining than watching paint dry.
- If you’re really that bored, and are in fact watching the installation, you’ll be notified as each step completes.
- Once everything has finished installing, you’ll be prompted to restart openSUSE. Click OK.
- Click the Computer button in the bottom left corner of the screen. Select Shutdown from the System list.
- And again click Shutdown.
- openSUSE will shut down. Once the ‘progress bar’ stops moving, click ctrl+alt on your keyboard to release your mouse and keyboard back to OS X. Click the “red square” button in the upper-right corner of Parallels Desktop.
- You’ll probably get a warning message from Parallels telling you that the virtual machine is still running. Click Yes anyway.
- If you used an actual CD (burned the .iso to disk as your installation method) eject the disk now, and jump down to step #42 below.
If you installed openSUSE by booting directly from the .iso file, click the CD/DVD-ROM entry on your openSUSE Parallels window.
- Select Use CD/DVD-ROM from the Emulation section of the CD/DVD-ROM Options page. Click OK.
- Now start up openSUSE again by clicking the “green arrow” (start) button from the upper-right side of Parallels Desktop.
- openSUSE will start up again, and enter the Configuration stage. This can take a while, so you might want to refill that cup of coffee.
- Once it has finally done its thing, click the Close link from the welcome screen (and don’t worry, that’s the last time you’ll see that screen).
- You may be prompted to check for updates. If you’d like to do so, click Yes. If not, click No (and you can always check later).
- That’s it, you’re finally done! Enjoy using openSUSE on your Mac.
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Great Writeup!
This helped me a lot, thanks!
On my PC I have one partition with Mac OS X and Parallels. With Parallels I have Vista and now openSUSE. On my other partition I have Vista. I always wanted to have a third partition with SUSE but I also always encountered errors with my USB flash drive. So, at least for now, this will be the alternative . . . and that’s not at all bad!
Again, thanks.
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