Prerequisites; Modifying The Installation Settings; A.2.2 Prerequisites; A.2.3 Modifying The Installation Settings - Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER 2 SP2 Installation Manual

Table A-1 shows the default proposed setup for a machine with 768 MB RAM. The default swap
size is 1 GB or larger, depending on the size of the RAM on your machine. The remainder of the
device is left as unpartitioned free space.
Default EVMS Proposal for Devices over 20 GB in Size
Table A-1
Device
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
/dev/evms/lvm2/system
/dev/evms/lvm2/system/root
/dev/evms/lvm2/system/swap

A.2.2 Prerequisites

This setup assumes that you have a single device in your physical server and you want to add NSS
pools and volumes on the device after the install.
The device must be unpartitioned.
If the device has existing partitions, you can remove them all or specify which ones to keep
during the install as described in
The device must be over 20 GB in size.

A.2.3 Modifying the Installation Settings

The procedure in this section describes how to use the Create EVMS Based Proposal option in the
YaST Partitioner to modify the partitioning settings during the install of OES 2 SP2 Linux or later.
IMPORTANT: The procedure assumes SCSI devices and refers to device node names with the
notation. Other device drivers use different notation for device node names. For example, IDE
drives use the notation.
hdn
1 Begin the SLES 10 SP3 install for OES 2 SP2 Linux.
For information, see
2 When the installation reaches the Installations Settings page, select Partitioning to open the
Partitioner where you can modify the default device setup.
For example, a default device setup might look like the one below:
Size
70.5 MB
14.9 GB
14.9 GB
10.0 GB
1.1 GB
Step 3 on page
"Installing OES 2 SP2" on page
Installing with EVMS as the Volume Manager of the System Device 213
Type
Ext2
Linux LVM
EVMS lvm2/system
EVMS
EVMS
214.
39.
Mount Point
/boot
/
swap
sdn