[sles-beta] Beta 2 installation notes

[Frederic Crozat]

(replying, keeping in mind this report is more SLED than SLES=

Le samedi 08 mars 2014 à 15:53 +0000, Joe Doupnik a écrit :
>      The UK keyboard language selection now works. Good. But the text 
> mode screen has not picked it up.

Please open a service request for this.

>      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.

Please open a service request for this.

>      Partitioner "Expert" menu is not filled in yet, just a white screen 
> block

Fixes for the expert partitioner are coming for Beta3 but please, fill a
service request to make sure bug fixed are the same one you are seeing.

>     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).

Please open a service request for this.

>      The same area now generally (except as noted above) shows the 
> detailed RPMs involved, which is good.

> But let's go ahead.
>      The login screen shows a personal name rather than the proper username

The idea here is to display "Real Name" (ie GECOS field) when there is
enough space, otherwise login (username) is displayed.

>      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.

Unfortunately, we won't be merging the "system menu" (sound / network /
power / shutdown) with the applications menu.

Regarding the "huge clock", on SLES, when you open it, it will be much
smaller (not trying to display calendar events, this is a SLED thing). 

BTW, if you want real adventure, you might want to try "GNOME Shell",
which is also available in SLE12 (just select "GNOME Shell" in the login
dialog, when asked for your password) ;)

>      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.

This is noted in the Beta2 announcement : bnc#866055. Until it is fixed,
use "systemctl kill xdm" to ensure Xorg is properly terminated.

>      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.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

might help you. Beware that Network interface renaming isn't working
properly in Beta2, will be fixed in Beta3.

-- 
Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at suse.com>
SUSE