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SLES 11
Summary: Installation report for a Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11
Date: Around 2012
Refactor: 3 January 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Installation
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
Installation setup
- 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)
Partitioning
/dev/sda1 swap 1 GB /dev/sda2 / ext3 7 GB - No Access Time
Software Selection
- 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
Network Configuration
- 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
Other Configuration
- Novell Customer Center: Configure later
- Default CA config
- No OpenLDAP
- Local Authentication
- No extra accounts
Post Install
- Set the runlevel to 3
- Installed vmtools through rpm and ran the config-tools script
- Ran updates
- Shrank vmdisk
- Defragmented vmdisk
- Created a snapshot
Post Install Production
- 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
- Backup
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