openSUSE 10.3 Installation Hints

To avoid problems during the installation of the OpenScape Office server with openSUSE 10.3 please consider the information and hints below.

Network Adapter D-Link DFE-528TX

 * Type: DFE-528TX Fast Ethernet PCI
 * Standard: 10 MBit/s 10Base-T, 100 MBit/s 10Base-T
 * Slot: 32 Bit PCI
 * Hint: automatically identification

Network Adapter D-Link DGE-528T

 * Type: DGE-528T Gigabit Ethernet PCI
 * Standard: 10 MBit/s 10Base-T, 100 MBit/s 10Base-T, 1000 Base-T
 * Slot: PCI 2.2
 * Hint: automatically identification

Network Adapter Netgear FA311 V2



 * Type: Netgear FA311v2 Fast Ethernet PCI
 * Standard: 10 MBit/s 10Base-T, 100 MBit/s 10Base-T
 * Slot: PCI
 * Hint: automatically identification

Network Adapter Netgear GA311



 * Type: Netgear GA311 Fast Ethernet PCI
 * Standard: 10 MBit/s 10Base-T, 100 MBit/s 10Base-TX, 1000 Base-T
 * Slot: PCI 2.2
 * Hint: automatically identification

Network Adapter Fujitsu Siemens Netlink



 * Type: Fujitsu Siemens Fast Ethernet PCI
 * Standard: 10 MBit/s 10Base-T, 100 MBit/s 10Base-TX, 1000 Base-T
 * Slot: PCI E
 * Hint: automatically identification, S26361-F3067-L30

Primergy TX150 S6

 * openSUSE Linux 10.3: OK.
 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with SP2: OK.


 * Installation of OpenSUSE 10.3 on FS Primergy TX150 S6 has worked. No parameters for ACPI or AHCI had to be changed. To check the LAN interfaces a SSH connection was established to another server. This worked with the on board network card as well as an external network card. The installation was however only conducted with the OpenSUSE DVD and not with (Windows-) installations program, which was delivered with the server. The available RAID system (pre installed through earlier installation) was recongnised by the OpenSUSE installation, no changes to the partitioning where made.

Primergy TX 150 S6 problem with BIOS-RAID
OpenSUSE hangs on first boot after installation on Fujitsu Primergy TX 150 S6 with BIOS-RAID because the automatically assigned device names for partitions are changed after booting. A solution is described here:

Problem diagnosis

Fujitsu Primergy TX 150 S6 with BIOS-RAID openSUSE hangs on the first booting after installation

At an early stage of the installation (after the system analysis) the failure can already be detected by checking the partitioning manually.



If there are partition names with long hexadecimal numbers, the problem will occure, that these names will be changed at every startup. The mounting of the fstab partitions will fail, because of these changing partition names.

Solution

Change partitioning

Click on „Partitionierung“ and select „Vorschlag als Basis für eigene ...“.



Go on to the next page which shows a list of the partitions.

In general there should be following partitions: /boot	optional swap	max. 2GB /	10 to 20 GB	/home	rest of hard disk



The figure shows the creation of the /home partition. Change only the RAID partitions    	(/dev/mapper/...) Do not change /dev/sda* or /dev/sdb*

Edit size and mount point

When creating a partition with „Anlegen“ the size and the mount point can be adjusted. (see figure)

A similar dialog appears when editing a partition with „Bearbeiten“. Here only the mount point can be set.



The important action in both dialogs is to set the fstab options. (Only this will solve the problem).�This has to be done for all mentioned partitions on (b) „Change partitioning“.

Edit fstab options

Change the mount method to „Volume-Kennung“ and enter a volume name. You can freely choose a name, except:�it should not already exist.



This has to be repeated for the „/“, „/home“ and „swap“ partition and the „/boot“ partition if available.

Change boot loader configuration

If a swap partition shall be used, additionally the boot loader configuration has to be adapted.�Select „Systemstart“ ...



... and on the next dialog select „Konfigurationsdateien bearbeiten“ from the drop-down box via the button „Andere“.



Edit menu.lst

Choose the file „/boot/grub/menu.lst“ and edit the resume= parameter value (marked text). In this case it has to be substituted by „/dev/disk/by-label/VOL_6“, where „VOL_6“ is the label of the swap partition set under fstab options.



(Usually this can be copied from the root= parameter value, but the volume name has to be changed to the swap partition.)

Celsius W370

 * openSUSE Linux 10.3: Restriction, onboard network card not recognised.
 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with SP2: OK, onboard network card recognised after installation of Fujitsu drivers.

Dell Poweredge T105

 * AMD Opteron 2.1 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD, DVD Drive
 * openSUSE Linux 10.3: OK, Operating System has to be installed as 32 Bit variant.
 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with SP2: OK, Operating System has to be installed as 32 Bit variant.

HP Proliant ML110 G5

 * Xenon dualcore 2.13 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD, DVD
 * openSUSE Linux 10.3: OK, Operating System has to be installed as 32 Bit variant.
 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with SP2: OK, Operating System has to be installed as 32 Bit variant.

Common installation hints

 * openSUSE 10.3 has to be installed in 32 Bit Mode (F7-Key only available with dual DVD 32/64).
 * [[Image:openSUSE10.3-Install01.jpg|275px]]


 * Hard disc problems:
 * Modern servers are today often delivered with S-ATA hard disc controllers. Some of those controllers are not supported by openSUSE 10.3. In case of problems with the hard disc recognition, the AHCI mode must be disabled in the server BIOS and the server has to be restarted. After this change the server runs in P-ATA compatible mode.


 * Network adapter problems:
 * Install a certified external network adapter (refer to list of tested adapters above).


 * When experiencing general problems:
 * Press the following Function keys after starting the installation from the openSUSE install disc:
 * F3 key >> for Graphics Adapter = Text Mode
 * [[Image:openSUSE10.3-Install02.jpg|275px]]
 * F5 key >> for Kernel Mode AHCI = off
 * [[Image:openSUSE10.3-Install03.jpg|275px]]


 * Problem: openSuse CD is always started from CD Drive.
 * In this example the hard disc setting is IDE Mode. The setting has to be changed from Native IDE to AHCI (S-ATA) in the server BIOS and the server has to be restarted.
 * [[Image:openSUSE10.3-Install04.jpg|275px]]


 * Problem with Fujitsu TX 150 server:
 * openSUSE 10.3 hangs up during installation. The following setting has to be changed and openSUSE installed again.
 * [[Image:openSUSE10.3-Install05.jpg|275px]]