[sles-beta] Beta 2 installation notes

[Joe Doupnik]

     Coming back to this report and I discovered that I had mixed SLED 
with SLES as both screens were open simultaneously on my desktop.
     For SLES the GUI is still like beta 1, so no progress there.
     Again for SLES, it now seems that we cannot change the name of the 
Ethernet adapter via YaST. That defeats my network scripts.
     Also, installing Python app fail2ban now puts things into /usr/bin 
rather than /usr/local/bin. I do not see where this change could have 
occurred. The installation step is "python setup.py install" and the 
particular fail2ban code is from my often used collection.
     Apologies for the confusion as I really meant to address just SLES 
in this report.
     Thanks,
     Joe D.

On 08/03/2014 15:53, Joe Doupnik wrote:
> The UK keyboard language selection now works. Good. But the text mode 
> screen has not picked it up.
>     Partitioner troubles with the first partition persist, in spades. 
> Now I find that upon trying to re-edit the partition table after the 
> system has lost /dev/sda1 (/boot) it will not permit the swap 
> partition to be deleted. That prevention is not correct, not usable, 
> and the popup error message saying the system cannot run without a 
> swap file is also not true.
>     Partitioner "Expert" menu is not filled in yet, just a white 
> screen block
>    Upon the installation retry the overall system choice for startup 
> runlevel sticks at graphical no matter what we click.
>     When we are in the software installation and use the Search 
> feature to enter a particular choice then the search result is shown 
> as empty, even though the item has been preselected elsewhere (a 
> pattern).
>     The same area now generally (except as noted above) shows the 
> detailed RPMs involved, which is good.
>
>     After installation the GUI appears, not the desired command 
> prompt. But let's go ahead.
>     The login screen shows a personal name rather than the proper 
> username
>     Wonder of wonders, the right-click for terminal emulator feature 
> has returned. Good.
>     The Gnome layout is much improved over beta 1, but we could well 
> do without emulation of that Win 8 thing. Take away the huge clock and 
> its stray audio icon and the far left systray triangle, put things 
> back in the start menu (not hidden in an obscure icon in systray), as 
> they were in the golden age. The changes made between beta 1 and beta 
> 2 are all in the right direction, and more such progress toward the 
> clean classical style of yore would be appreciated. Yes, I know it is 
> a heck of a lot of work involved.
>
>     Trying to escape the GUI, no go. Control-BS-BS recycles to the 
> GUI. Terminal, su -, init 3 (yes, heresy) freezes the machine. But, in 
> that frozen state another Control-BS-BS finally yields the text mode 
> screen (non-GUI). Whew. Oh, do I get a prize for finding that easter egg?
> I will trade that prize for a way to define the startup run level in a 
> simple clear way.
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>     How does one get rid of the lan adapter retro-name (ens32) and 
> regain regular eth0, 1, etc?  At present I must go into YaST | Network 
> and rename the device by hand. I dread the thought of having to do 
> this for each upgrade.
>     Thanks,
>     Joe D.
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