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Install SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) 11 SP2 via Oracle System Assistant

Oracle System Assistant is a tool that helps you easily deploy and configure Oracle's Sun x86 servers. OSA bundles the latest essential drivers and firmware into a single package that is embedded on-board with every new Oracle Sun x86 server. OSA provides a graphical interface that simplifies server management and is good tool for single server provisioning and configuration.

Here is example of installing SLES 11 SP2 on Sun Server X4-2.



















































And here are some verification commands after installation. 
zarko@host:/etc>  cat SuSE-release 
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
VERSION = 11
PATCHLEVEL = 2

zarko@host:/etc> rpm -qi kernel-default
Name        : kernel-default               Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 3.0.13                            Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Release     : 0.27.1                        Build Date: Wed 15 Feb 2012 09:21:18 AM PST
Install Date: Tue 26 Jan 2016 05:10:07 PM PST      Build Host: albinoni
Group       : System/Kernel                 Source RPM: kernel-default-3.0.13-0.27.1.nosrc.rpm
Size        : 80978760                         License: GPL v2 only
Signature   : RSA/8, Wed 15 Feb 2012 10:03:56 AM PST, Key ID e3a5c360307e3d54
Packager    : http://bugs.opensuse.org
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary     : The Standard Kernel
Description :
The standard kernel for both uniprocessor and multiprocessor systems.
Source Timestamp: 2012-02-15 14:33:49 +0100
GIT Revision: d73692b0519ab7dfc2b1f3cb10f51e3af7a1825c
GIT Branch: SLE11-SP2-gm-fixes
Distribution: SUSE Linux Enterprise 11

zarko@host:/etc> df -h 
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2       549G  3.2G  544G   1% /
devtmpfs         63G  208K   63G   1% /dev
tmpfs            63G   88K   63G   1% /dev/shm

host:/boot/grub # cat /boot/grub/menu.lst 
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Jan 26 12:14:29 PST 2016
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd1,1)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 - 3.0.13-0.27
    root (hd1,1)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.13-0.27-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-35000cca056501858-part2 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-35000cca056501858-part1 splash=silent crashkernel=256M-:128M showopts vga=0x314
    initrd /boot/initrd-3.0.13-0.27-default

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 - 3.0.13-0.27
    root (hd1,1)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.13-0.27-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-35000cca056501858-part2 showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe vga=0x314
    initrd /boot/initrd-3.0.13-0.27-default

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