[sle-beta] beta7 on Arm

[Josef Reidinger]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:38:21 +0100
"Czanik, Péter " <peter.czanik at balabit.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just a few notes from installing SLES 15 beta7 on a SoftIron Aarch64
> machine.
> 
> Installation is done through the serial console. The default 80x24 console
> proved to be too small in a few cases. For example buttons were not
> available on the repo selection screen. A 132x43 console works perfectly.

Please report bug report, ideally with screenshots, for all locations where it does not fit 80x24 as it is minimal solution we support ( for ncurse TUI installation, for qt it is higher resolution ).

Thanks
Josef

> 
> I already had partitions on the machine so at first I wanted to utilize the
> existing partitions. The advanced partitioner kept saying me on exit that I
> need to create a /boot/efi partition even when it was already there. When I
> exited anyway YaST crashed a few steps later with some mounting related
> error messages.
> 
> Now I'm doing a fresh installation deleting all previous partitions...
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
> Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
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