[sles-beta] Issues I saw after several installs and some configuration

[Matthias G. Eckermann]

Summarizing the german discussion: there are issues
with installing via USB Media, which are not limited
to the Fujitsu KVM s4-1622, but also occur with USB in
general. The situation is worse thouhg with a KVM, as
it cannot be "removed" manually (as a stick could).

I suggest that you open a Service Request about this
general issue.  While I am not sure, if we can fix it
for all situations (there is some interaction with
BIOS, sort orders, ...), we should at least document
in the Release Notes, how this could be workarounded.

Thanks in advance!

so long -
	MgE

On 2013-03-01 T 12:20 +0100 Klaus Gmeinwieser wrote:
> Hallo Herr Wilck,
> 
> das passiert auch bei Verwendung des USB Stick alleine. Bei
> "normalen" Maschinen ist der angegebene Workaround verwendbar, bei
> fest verkabelten Servern ist das in der Weise nicht machbar.
> 
> Problem ist, dass das erste sichtbare USB Medium als erste Festplatte
> gesehen/verwendet und damit SLES auch dorthin installiert wird (was
> wegen mangelndem Plattenplatz natürlich schief geht).
> 
> Der KVM-Switch sollte hier nicht das Problem sein...
> 
> Gruß
> Klaus Gmeinwieser
> 
> Am 28.02.2013 18:18, schrieb Martin Wilck:
> >Hallo Herr Gmeinwieser,
> >
> >>Most annoying issue was impossible unattended installation of my rack
> >>systems connected to a Fujitsu KVM s4-1622. This KVM is emulating USB
> >>remote storage and YaST wants to install the system on this USB media if
> >>using "autoyast=usb" to import the control file from a USB media.
> >>
> >>The only possibility to get SLES installed is to disconnect the switch
> >>and to directly connect keyboard and mouse and to use a workaround to
> >>connect the USB stick earliest after YaST asks for it.
> >
> >Eine Frage dazu: Passiert das nur mit dem KVM S4, oder auch zB mit einer
> >direkten angesteckten USB Platte oder USB Stick?
> >
> >Gruß
> >Martin Wilck
> >
> 
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