Hi All,
I am new to SLES and so is for this Forum.
I have a request to install SLES 9 Sp3 on a HP DL380 G5 server. I had done a SLES 10 install before using the iso images and it went fine but I couldn’t see /usr, /var, /tmp, /etc et all were not listed as separate fs.
Am i missing something during the instaltion which is causing this?
Also If somebody can help me with procedure to install SLES 9, it would be of great help.
Many thanks in advance.
Regards,
Druva
Welcome to this forum. But this is the openSUSE forum. Not a SLES/SLED forum. They are at SUSE PRODUCT DISCUSSION FORUMS
Very few people here have ever used SLES. Yes, many do not even know what it is. When you take care of that (always assuming that any answer here may be openSUSE based and not SLES), you are welcome to see if you get usefull help here.
Again I do not know if it is default in SLES to have separate file systems for /usr, /var. /etc. In openSUSE it is not (and I have barely seen that many separate file systems on any Unix system I managed in more then 20 years).
On 09/26/2011 06:06 PM, thamesunix wrote:
> I have a request to install SLES 9 Sp3 on a HP DL380 G5 server.
these are the openSUSE forums…
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) didn’t exist in version 9, but there
was a commercial SUSE 9, it and SLES are not supported via these fora,
but rather over on the commercial side at: http://tinyurl.com/422mrnu
as for install procedures, i installed the non-pro version of 9.2 and
9.3 and this was the procedure:
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DD
openSUSE®, the “German Automobiles” of operating systems
Sorry to disagree, but SLES-9 was an option on IBM mainframes, and there were university site-licences. Here is the current Novell download page:
http://wiki.novell.com/index.php/SLES_9_Download
On 09/26/2011 09:56 PM, eng-int wrote:
> Sorry to disagree
i love to learn…no ‘sorry’ required…
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DD
openSUSE®, the “German Automobiles” of operating systems
IIRC the SP3 or SPx is just an update / upgrade pack and you will need the original SLES 9 cd packs if you want to setup a fresh system. I can’t be sure since the system I had needed to be upgraded only but I think this is “explained” by this NOVELL: Downloads - Release Notes for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 20051222 in the section “Setting up an installation server for network installations” where you can notice that the “core” cd’s are needed beside the SP2 cd’s.
A similar info must be available on the 1st CD from the service pack 3 so look for it and read it.
Setting up an installation server for network installations
If you have a SLES9 already installed, use the YaST installation-server module to create a network install source. It can be found below Misc - Installation Server in the YaST main screen.
Note: the SLES9 GA version of the YaST installation-server module can not integrate SLES9 service pack iso images. This bug was fixed in SLES9 SP1. Either upgrade the server to SP1 or newer, or just update the yast2-instserver.rpm:
rpm -Uvh /SP1-CD1/suse/noarch/yast2-instserver-2.9.22-0.2.noarch.rpm
Restart YaST after the yast2-instserver package update.
Every new service pack CD provides an updated rescue system on CD1/boot/rescue. To use this new rescue system on a YaST generated installation source, remove the ‘boot’ symlink in the toplevel directory.
rm boot
mkdir boot
cp SUSE-SLES-Version-9/CD1/boot/root ./boot/root
cp SUSE-SLES-9-Service-Pack-Version-2/boot/rescue ./boot/rescue
To manually set up an installation Server for installations via NFS/FTP/HTTP the CDs have to be copied into a special directory structure.
Go to a directory of your choice and execute the following commands:
mkdir -p installroot/sles9/CD1
now copy the contents of SLES CD1 into this directory
mkdir -p installroot/core9/CD1
now copy the contents of SLES CD2 into this directory
mkdir -p installroot/core9/CD2
now copy the contents of SLES CD3 into this directory
mkdir -p installroot/core9/CD3
now copy the contents of SLES CD4 into this directory
mkdir -p installroot/core9/CD4
now copy the contents of SLES CD5 into this directory
mkdir -p installroot/core9/CD5
now copy the contents of SLES CD6 into this directory
mkdir -p installroot/sp2/CD1
now copy the contents of SLES SP2 CD1 into this directory
mkdir -p installroot/sp2/CD2
now copy the contents of SLES SP2 CD2 into this directory
mkdir -p installroot/sp2/CD3
now copy the contents of SLES SP2 CD3 into this directory
cd installroot
mkdir boot
Beside this the installation of SLES 9 is quite straight forward, be awared that if you want to use a mailserver on it - ldap usage is a MUST with postfix. Also some bugs in YAST when saving / applying the configurations.
I remember I had back in the days trouble installing it on a RAID config on an Intel server MB because of driver issues so you might have problems also on newer hardware.
I think that the SP cd’s can be installed directly from YAST (can’t remember exactly the name).
Cheers and good luck.
PS
I guess you already know that the latest SP is 4 for SLES 9 and that you need to have an active (read paid) support account with Novell to get the latest updates / security patches for SLES and since SP3 there have been lots of them.