[sles-beta] Installation with SMT

[Simon Flood]

On 23/06/2014 12:29, Datacenter/DFS wrote:

> we had installed the new SMT (beta) on a SLES11 SP3. We configured SMT to mirror SLES12 pool+updates.
>
> Now we are about to install a fresh SLES12 beta8 and want to register it to the SMT _before_ installation (that's a new sles12 feature).
>
> Therefore the Registration Page in Yast provides the ability to configure network (ip, dns, gateway) right at the beginning of the installation process (Button upper right "Network Configuration").
>
> The Registration Page further asks for "Email" and "Registration Code".
> When proceeding with or without entering any Email/RegCode the system seems to try to contact nu.novell.com (though I did not confirm this) - popup "Contacting Registration Server". After a timeout I get an error since our systems do not have internet access - popup "Error Registration Failed".
>
> Following Questions:

> How would one configure a proxy to contact either local SMT or nu.novell.com?

For a manual install try entering "proxy=http://<server>:<port>/" in the 
Boot Options field.

For an automated install via AutoYaST see 
http://users.suse.com/~ug/autoyast_doc/configuration.html#Configuration.Network.Proxy

HTH,
Simon
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Simon Flood
Senior Systems Specialist
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom

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