Contents
About This Guide xi
Part I Advanced Deployment Scenarios 1
1 Remote Installation 3
1.1 Installation Scenarios for Remote Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2 Setting Up the Server Holding the Installation Sources . . . . . . . . . 12
1.3 Preparing the Boot of the Target System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
1.4 Booting the Target System for Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
1.5 Monitoring the Installation Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
2 Advanced Disk Setup 39
2.1 Using the YaST Partitioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
2.2 LVM Conguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
2.3 Soft RAID Conguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Part II Managing and Updating Software 59
3 Installing or Removing Software 61
3.1 Denition of Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
3.2 Using the KDE Interface (Qt) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
3.3 Using the GNOME Interface (GTK+) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
3.4 Managing Software Repositories and Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75