[sles-beta] few things to note after my first install

[Greg.Lehmann at csiro.au]

I've re-installed my virtual box server to check the ntp issue mentioned in point 3 below. Still greyed out. Swapping to console 2 to get at a shell to do an ifconfig -a does indeed show network is not configured, but I have a network cable (virtual) plugged in and the physical server I tried this behaved the same way.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sles-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com [mailto:sles-beta-
> bounces at lists.suse.com] On Behalf Of Thorsten Kukuk
> Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013 8:36 PM
> To: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Authorized Beta Program
> Subject: Re: [sles-beta] few things to note after my first install
> 
> On Thu, Feb 21, Greg.Lehmann at csiro.au wrote:
> 
> > 1.       No ability to install from USB flash drive - optical media
> is a bit old hat - hopefully this will be an option for SLES 12
> 
> I got a lot of success storys, thus it is working.
> 
> > 2.       I can't believe we have btrfs as a filesystem option but no
> ext4  - again SLES 12 hopefully.
> 
> I don't think that this will change.
> 
> > 3.       During the install I found the option for changing time
> using ntp server during install was greyed out
> 
> I bet you did not install with network enabled? If there is no network
> configured at that point in time, the option will not help you.
> 
> > 4.       Tried a yast online update and was told there was no update
> repository.
> 
> No update repositories or no updates available? I would guess the last
> one, but could be very well that the server error code is the same for
> both.
> 
> >  I checked what was put there by the registration  and everything
> needed was there as mentioned in the release notes, but the SP2 and SP1
> update and pool repositories were not enabled as the release notes said
> they should be.
> 
> That's the SP2 part of the release-notes and not valid for SP3.
> 
> > Enabled them and could pull down the first visible patch (dhcp
> 4.2.4P2)
> 
> So you are installing SP1/SP2 patches on top of SP3, you should not do
> that.
> 
>   Thorsten
> 
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