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Special Installation Procedures
Special Installation
Procedures
SUSE LINUX can be installed in a number of ways. The possibilities range
from a graphical quick installation to a text-based installation allowing nu-
merous manual adaptions. The following sections cover various instal-
lation procedures and the use of diverse installation sources (CD-ROM,
NFS). This chapter also features information about resolving problems en-
countered during the installation, a detailed section about partitioning, and
an introduction to SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server on iSCSI.
3.1 linuxrc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
3.2 Installation with VNC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
3.3 Text-Based Installation with YaST . . . . . . . . . . 125
3.4 Starting SUSE LINUX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
3.5 Special Installation Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
3.6 Tips and Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
3.7 ATAPI CD-ROM Hangs while Reading . . . . . . . 133
3.8 Permanent Device Names for SCSI Devices . . . . 134
3.9 Partitioning for Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
3.10 LVM Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
3.11 Soft RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
3.12 Mass Storage via IP Networks — iSCSI . . . . . . . 148