Installation instructions for OpenSuSE 13.1

• If the installation program hangs almost right away on a PCI-related message, add the boot option "nomodeset" and retry.
• Do not 'upgrade' from an earlier version. Choose 'new install', but use extreme care not to interfere with existing scratch partitions.
• Select the following additional software categories:
  • Technical writing
  • Console tools
  • File server
  • Miscellaneous server
  • Network administration
  • Base development
  • C/C++ development
  • Integrated Development Environment
  • Java development
  • Perl development
  • Python development
• After selecting packages, choose "detail" and select additional packages:
  • In 'Console tools': nano, ncftp, pico
  • Via search: libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0-32bit, libgtk-2_0-0-32bit, libxml2-2-32bit, mmv, ipython, lynx, xosview, readline-devel
• Network configuration:
  • Firewall enabled, SSH open
  • Static IP address, subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
  • DNS: 129.105.1.1, 129.105.49.1, 8.8.8.8
  • Domain search: 'ms.northwestern.edu' and 'northwestern.edu'
  • Gateway (under 'routing' tab): 129.105.92.1
• After install, in Software Management add:
  • lsb, motif, motif-devel, glibc-devel-static, texlive, libreadline5, apcupsd, apcupsd-cgi, apcupsd-gui
• Since we use our own installation of OpenMPI, remove the system version:
  • rpm -e mpi-selector openmpi libboost_mpi1_53_0 libboost_graph1_53_0 boost-devel
• Add NVIDIA driver via one-click (and configure using 'nvidia-xconfig'):
  • http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers
• Add VLC via one-click:
  • http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/13.1/vlc.ymp
• Add Google Chrome repository:
  • https://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/
• Install debugging software packages via YaST:
  • In Software Repositories, enable openSUSE-13.1-Debug and openSUSE-13.1-Update-Debug
  • Go to Software Management, select glibc-debuginfo