This guide details how to install single or multiple systems, and how to exploit the product-inherent capabilities for a deployment infrastructure. Choose from various approaches: local installation from physical installation media, customizing the standard installation images, network installation server, mass deployment using a remote-controlled, highly-customized, automated installation process, and initial system configuration.
- About This Guide
- I Installation Preparation
- II Installation Procedure
- 7 Boot Parameters
- 8 Installation Steps
- 8.1 Overview
- 8.2 Installer Self-Update
- 8.3 Language, Keyboard, and Product Selection
- 8.4 License Agreement
- 8.5 IBM Z: Disk Activation
- 8.6 Network Settings
- 8.7 Registration
- 8.8 Extension and Module Selection
- 8.9 Add-On Product
- 8.10 System Role
- 8.11 Partitioning
- 8.12 Clock and Time Zone
- 8.13 Create New User
- 8.14 Authentication for the System Administrator “root”
- 8.15 Installation Settings
- 8.16 Performing the Installation
- 9 Registering SUSE Linux Enterprise and Managing Modules/Extensions
- 10 Expert Partitioner
- 11 Remote Installation
- 12 Troubleshooting
- III Customizing Installation Images
- IV Setting Up an Installation Server
- V Initial System Configuration
- 20 Setting Up Hardware Components with YaST
- 21 Installing or Removing Software
- 22 Installing Modules, Extensions, and Third Party Add-On Products
- 23 Installing Multiple Kernel Versions
- 24 Managing Users with YaST
- 24.1 User and Group Administration Dialog
- 24.2 Managing User Accounts
- 24.3 Additional Options for User Accounts
- 24.4 Changing Default Settings for Local Users
- 24.5 Assigning Users to Groups
- 24.6 Managing Groups
- 24.7 Changing the User Authentication Method
- 24.8 Default System Users
- 24.9 Default system groups
- 25 Changing Language and Country Settings with YaST
- A Imaging and Creating Products
- B GNU licenses
- 7.1 The Boot Screen on Machines with a Traditional BIOS
- 7.2 The Boot Screen on Machines with UEFI
- 7.3 GRUB options editor
- 8.1 Language, Keyboard, and Product Selection
- 8.2 License Agreement
- 8.3 Disk Activation
- 8.4 DASD Disk Management
- 8.5 Network Settings
- 8.6 SUSE Customer Center Registration
- 8.7 Installing without Registration
- 8.8 Extension and Module Selection
- 8.9 Add-On Product
- 8.10 System Role
- 8.11 Suggested Partitioning
- 8.12 Clock and Time Zone
- 8.13 Create New User
- 8.14 Authentication for the System Administrator
root - 8.15 Installation Settings
- 8.16 Software Selection and System Tasks
- 10.1 The YaST Partitioner
- 10.2 Btrfs Subvolumes in YaST Partitioner
- 10.3 Creating a Volume Group
- 10.4 Logical Volume Management
- 10.5 RAID Partitions
- 12.1 US Keyboard Layout
- 21.1 Conflict Management of the Software Manager
- 21.2 Adding a Software Repository
- 21.3 Update Notification on GNOME Desktop
- 21.4 GNOME Software— View
- 22.1 Installation of System Extensions
- 22.2 List of Installed Add-on Products, Modules and Extensions
- 22.3 Installation of an Add-on Product or an Extension
- 23.1 The YaST Software Manager: Multiversion View
- 24.1 YaST User and Group Administration
- 5.1 Configuration of a z/VM Directory
- 5.2 Example Domain XML File
- 5.3 Transferring the Binaries via FTP
- 5.4 sles.exec
- 5.5 Supported Network Connection Types and Driver Parameters
- 5.6 Network Device Driver Parameters
- 5.7 Networking Parameters
- 5.8 Parmfile for an installation from NFS with VNC and AutoYaST, with I/O device auto configuration
- 5.9 Parmfile for Installation with NFS, SSH, and HSI and AutoYaST with NFS
- 5.10 Parmfile for Installation in VLAN
- 8.1
regcodes.txt - 8.2
regcodes.xml - 19.1 Configuring the Proposal Screens
- 19.2 Configuring the Workflow Section
- 19.3 Configuring the List of Workflow Components
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