SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Installation
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Partitioning
Example of LVM-based partitioning:

Disk /dev/sda: 1 GiB   (dedicated to boot) Disk /dev/sdb: 40 GiB  (LVM)

Filesystem                       Size  Mounted on /dev/sda1                         200M   /dev/sda2                        800M  /boot /dev/mapper/system-root          4.0G  / /dev/mapper/system-swap          4.0G /dev/mapper/system-home          2.0G  /home /dev/mapper/system-tmp           2.0G  /tmp /dev/mapper/system-var           1.0G  /var /dev/mapper/system-crash         2.0G  /var/crash /dev/mapper/system-cache_yum     3.0G  /var/cache/yum /dev/mapper/system-var_log       3.0G  /var/log /dev/mapper/system-var_log_audit 1.0G  /var/log/audit /dev/mapper/system-opt           4.0G  /opt

Post-installation
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Registration
Register a server: SUSEConnect --email "linux@example.com" --regcode "Activation_Code" SUSEConnect --email "linux@example.com" --regcode "Activation_Code" --product sle-sdk/12.4-0/x86_64 SUSEConnect --status-text

Service Pack Installation
To update the system to the last SP: zypper cleanlocks zypper locks | grep package | awk '{print $3}' | xargs zypper removelock zypper clean --all zypper refresh --force --services zypper migration --migration 1 --disable-repos --auto-agree-with-licenses --non-interactive zypper products zypper update -y shutdown -r now

Offline Upgrade from SLES 11 SP4 to SLES 12
This is the procedure to go from SLES 11 to SLES 12: zypper cleanlocks zypper locks | grep package | awk '{print $3}' | xargs zypper removelock zypper update -y for i in /boot/initrd-*-kdump do    k="${i%-kdump}" k="/boot/vmlinuz-${k#/boot/initrd-}" test -f "$k" || rm -v "$i" done zypper clean --all


 * Boot from the Installation DVD
 * Press F3 and select Text Mode
 * Choose Upgrade
 * Set the Keyboard Layout and agree to the License Terms
 * Configure the network card
 * Select the Partition or System to update
 * Enable all SLES 12 repositories (SLES-12, SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-12-SP5, SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-12-SP5-SDK)
 * Skip registration
 * Start the Update

zypper removerepo SLES12-SP5-12.5-0 zypper packages --orphaned | awk '{print $5}' | egrep "openssl1|vmware-tools" | xargs zypper remove -y zypper update -y shutdown -r now

Links

 * SUSE Product Documentation
 * Release Notes for SUSE products
 * SUSE Downloads
 * SUSE Patch Finder
 * SUSE Customer Center
 * SUSE Linux security updates by CVE
 * SUSE Package Hub
 * openSUSE Software