Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - DEPLOYMENT Quick reference guide

SUSE Linux Enterprise

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March23,2009 Deployment Guide

Deployment Guide

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Contents

About This Guide ix

1Planning for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 1

1.1 Considerations for Deployment of a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server . . . . . 2

1.2 Deployment of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1.3 Running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Part I Architecture Specic Installation Considerations 5

2Installation on x86, AMD64, Intel 64, and Itanium 7

2.1 Required Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.2 System Requirements for Operating Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.3 Installation Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.4 Boot and Installation Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.5 Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.6 Controlling the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.7 Dealing with Boot and Installation Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3Installation on IBM POWER 21

3.1 Requirements .......................... 21

3.2 Preparation ........................... 23

4Installation on IBM System z 39

4.1 General Information and Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

4.2 Preparing for Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

4.3 Network Connection Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

4.4 The parmle—Automating the System Conguration . . . . . . . . . . 67

4.5 Using the vt220 Terminal Emulator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

4.6 Further In-Depth Information about IBM System z . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Part II Manual Deployment 77

5Deployment Strategies 79

5.1 Deploying up to 10 Workstations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

5.2 Deploying up to 100 Workstations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

5.3 Deploying More than 100 Workstations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

6Installation with YaST 89

6.1 Choosing the Installation Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

6.2 The Installation Workow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

6.3 IBM POWER: System Start-Up for Network Installation . . . . . . . . . 92

6.4 IBM System z: System Start-Up for Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

6.5 System Start-Up for Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

6.6 TheBootScreen......................... 93

6.7 Welcome ............................ 98

6.8 IBM System z: Hard Disk Conguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

6.9 Installation Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

6.10 Clock and Time Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

6.11 Server Base Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

6.12 Installation Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

6.13 Performing the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

6.14 Conguration of the Installed System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

6.15 GraphicalLogin......................... 124

7Updating SUSE Linux Enterprise 125

7.1 Updating SUSE Linux Enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

7.2 Installing Service Packs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

7.3 Software Changes from Version 10 to Version 11 . . . . . . . . . . . 128

8Setting Up Hardware Components with YaST 129

8.1 Probing Your Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

8.2 Setting Up Graphics Card and Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

8.3 Setting Up Keyboard and Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

8.4 Setting Up Sound Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

8.5 Setting Up a Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

9Installing or Removing Software 141

9.1 Denition of Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

9.2 Using the Qt Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

9.3 Managing Software Repositories and Services . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

9.4 Keeping the System Up-to-date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

10 Installing Add-On Products 157

10.1 Add-Ons............................ 157

10.2 BinaryDrivers.......................... 158

10.3 SUSE Software Development Kit (SDK) 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

11 Accessing the Internet 159

11.1 Direct Internet Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

11.2 Internet Connection Via Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

12 Managing Users with YaST 163

12.1 User and Group Administration Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

12.2 Managing User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

12.3 Additional Options for User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

12.4 Changing Default Settings for Local Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

12.5 Assigning Users to Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

12.6 ManagingGroups........................ 176

12.7 Changing the User Authentication Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

13 Changing Language and Country Settings with YaST 181

13.1 Changing the System Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

13.2 Changing the Country and Time Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

14 Remote Installation 189

14.1 Installation Scenarios for Remote Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

14.2 Setting Up the Server Holding the Installation Sources . . . . . . . . . 198

14.3 Preparing the Boot of the Target System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

14.4 Booting the Target System for Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

14.5 Monitoring the Installation Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

15 Advanced Disk Setup 227

15.1 Using the YaST Partitioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

15.2 LVM Conguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

15.3 Soft RAID Conguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

16 Subscription Management 247

16.1 Using Kernel Parameters to Access an SMT Server . . . . . . . . . . . 248

16.2 Conguring Clients Using AutoYaST Prole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

16.3 Conguring Clients Using the clientSetup4SMT.sh Script . . . . . . . . 251

16.4 Registering Clients Against SMT Test Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Part III Imaging and Creating Products 253

17 KIWI 255

17.1 Prerequisites for KIWI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

17.2 Knowing KIWI’s Build Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

17.3 Image Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

17.4 Creating Appliances with KIWI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

17.5 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

18 Creating Add-On Products With Add-on Creator 263

18.1 CreatingImages......................... 263

18.2 Add-On Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

18.3 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

19 Creating Images with YaST Product Creator 267

19.1 Prerequisites for Product Creator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

19.2 CreatingImages......................... 267

19.3 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

20 Deploying Customized Preinstallations 271

20.1 Preparing the Master Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

20.2 Customizing the Firstboot Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

20.3 Cloning the Master Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

20.4 Personalizing the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Part IV Automated Installations 283

21 Automated Installation 285

21.1 Simple Mass Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

21.2 Rule-Based Autoinstallation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

21.3 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

22 Automated Deployment of Preload Images 303

22.1 Deploying system manually from rescue image . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

22.2 Automated Deployment with PXE Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

About This Guide

Installations of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server are possible in many different ways. It

is impossible to cover all combinations of boot, or installation server, automated instal-

lations or deploying images. This manual should help with selecting the appropriate

method of deployment for your installation.

Part I, “Architecture Specic Installation Considerations” (page 5)

The standard deployment instructions differ depending on the architecture used.

For differences and requirements regarding the architecture, see this part.

Part II, “Manual Deployment” (page 77)

Most tasks that are needed during installations are described here. This includes

the manual setup of your computer as well as additional software and remote instal-

lations.

Part III, “Imaging and Creating Products” (page 253)

Mass installations often require to prepare images or products furnished with the

features that are needed in this special case. Several options are described that allow

the administrator to prepare this deployment methods.

Part IV, “Automated Installations” (page 283)

To do unattended installations, either use the installation with AutoYaST or prepare

an image with kiwi or rstboot. This part describes methods to deploy these instal-

lations with a minimum of user interaction.

Many chapters in this manual contain links to additional documentation resources. This

includes additional documentation that is available on the system as well as documen-

tation available on the Internet.

For an overview of the documentation available for your product and the latest docu-

mentation updates, refer to http://www.novell.com/documentation or to

the following section.

1 Available Documentation

We provide HTML and PDF versions of our books in different languages. The following

manuals for users and administrators are available on this product:

Deployment Guide (page 1)

Shows how to install single or multiple systems and how to exploit the product

inherent capabilities for a deployment infrastructure. Choose from various approach-

es, ranging from a local installation or a network installation server to a mass de-

ployment using a remote-controlled, highly-customized, and automated installation

technique.

Administration Guide (↑Administration Guide)

Covers system administration tasks like maintaining, monitoring and customizing

an initially installed system.

Security Guide (↑Security Guide)

Introduces basic concepts of system security, covering both local and network se-

curity aspects. Shows how to make use of the product inherent security software

like Novell AppArmor (which lets you specify per program which les the program

may read, write, and execute) or the auditing system that reliably collects informa-

tion about any security-relevant events.

Virtualization with Xen (↑Virtualization with Xen)

Offers an introduction to virtualization technology of your product. It features an

overview of the various elds of application and installation types of each of the

platforms supported by SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as well as a short description

of the installation procedure.

Storage Administration Guide

Provides information about how to manage storage devices on a SUSE Linux En-

terprise Server.

In addition to the comprehensive manuals, several quick start guides are available:

Installation Quick Start (↑Installation Quick Start)

Lists the system requirements and guides you step-by-step through the installation

of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from DVD, or from an ISO image.

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