Summary: Installation report for a Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11
Date: Around 2012
Refactor: 3 January 2025: Checked links and formatting.

This is my installation report for a default installation of Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11.
For the installation I used the installation server I have created a while ago. This gave me the following installation option:

install=http://<ip-adres of hostname>/install/sles11/CD1/ noapic nolapic nosmp clock=pit vnc=1 vncpassword=12345678

• Language: English US
• Keyboard: English US
• Installation mode: New Install
• Time and Timezone: Hardware Clock not set to UTC - Region: Europe - TimeZone: Netherlands
• Server Base Scenario: Physical Machine (Also for fully Virtualized Guests)

/dev/sda1 swap 1 GB
/dev/sda2 / ext3 7 GB - No Access Time

• Pattern:
  • Base System
  • Minimal System (Appliance) - could not be unselected
• Graphical Environments
  • Gnome Desktop Environment for Server
  • X Window System
• Development
  • C/C++ Compiler and Tools

• Root password: b-password
• Hostname: sles11.shift.local
• IP-address: 192.168.177.51
• Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
• Gateway: 192.168.177.2
• DNS server: 192.168.177.2

• IPv6 Disabled
• Firewall Disabled
• Remote Administration Disabled
• Proxy: http://proxy.getshifting.com:3128

• Novell Customer Center: Configure later
• Default CA config
• No OpenLDAP
• Local Authentication
• No extra accounts

• Set the runlevel to 3
• Installed vmtools through rpm and ran the config-tools script
• Ran updates
• Shrank vmdisk
• Defragmented vmdisk
• Created a snapshot

• Set the runlevel to 3
• Installed vmtools through rpm and ran the config-tools script
• NTP for Virtual SLES
• DNS records added to DNS server
• Syslog redirected to syslog server
• Disabled filesystem check
• Backup