[sles-beta] [ANNOUNCE] SLES 12 Beta5 is available

[Stefan Behlert]

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Dear Beta participants,

we are happy to announce the fifth Beta of

	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.

ISO images are now available for download now. Please go to
http://www.novell.com/beta and select "View my beta page".
Here you should see all Beta's you are part of.

Note that the directory contains the images for the SDK as well as for SLED.

We offer 3 DVD ISOs: DVD1 contains the binaries, the second
DVD the sources and the third DVD the debuginfo packages. 
The final product will not contain the debuginfo packages on the media.

For installation purposes you just need Media 1 for your architecture.

Please verify the md5sum of the ISO using the MD5SUMS file, which can
be found in the same directory on the download servers.


Known issues:
  871178 - No network during upgrade
  872012 - Adding Extensions/Modules after registration during installation fails
  870625 - No addon dialog without registration 
  869359 - formatting partition (ext3) got system error code -3006 
	   If you select ext3 filesystem in the expert partitioner, you get an
	   error popup. You can safely click "continue" there, the installation
	   will succeed.
	   In the installed system, you should change in /etc/fstab the entry
	   for the partition from ext2 to ext3, if you want to use
	   ext3-specific features.
  - several issues with chzdev on s390x
  - autoyast2 still with some issues
  - upgrading from SLE 11 SP3 is not working flawlessly, requiring manual interaction


With this Beta4 snapshot we have reached several milestones:
    o Milestone: System test completed.
    o Start performance and regression tests.
    o Continue to fix problems found during update, performance or certification tests.

For the next Beta-Release we are targeting these actions and milestones:
    o Milestone: Legal review of SLE12 contents completed.
    o Continue update, performance and regression tests.
    o Start first stress and certification tests.



Thanks in advance for all your testing

	Your SUSE Linux Enterprise Team
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Stefan Behlert, SUSE LINUX
Project Manager Enterprise Server
 
Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany
Phone +49-911-74053-173
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