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Installing SLES 15 SP3 on Raspberry Pi

At the end of the Lab you will have:

  • Raspberry Pi 4 running SLES 15 SP3

The SUSE Documentation for the Raspberry Pi Quickstart is another awesome doc to get SLES running on the Pi

Prerequisite

Suggest:

  • Raspberry Pi 4 w/ 8gb Ram
  • Micro SD Card
  • Optional USB 3 boot drive

Download SLES 15 SP3 for Raspberry Pi (Arm)

1) Download the file SLES15-SP3-JeOS.aarch64-15.3-RaspberryPi-GM.raw.xz from the link below - make sure you choose Stable Release 15 SP3 and Architecture Arm

Download SLES and copy a registration code

Burning the image to a micro SD Card

You will need to burn this image to the micro SD card.

For Linux

1) Find your micro SD card by using the lsblk command

lsblk

Example

2) Use the information returned from lsblk for next command.

In this example I'm using /dev/mmcblk0

xz -cd SLES15-SP3-JeOS.aarch64-15.3-RaspberryPi-GM.raw.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4096 iflag=fullblock status=progress

For Windows

1) Download the following files

Easy 7-Zip Win32 Disk Imager

2) Use 7-zip to uncompress SLES15-SP3-JeOS.aarch64-15.3-RaspberryPi-GM.raw.xz

3) Use Win32 Disk Imager to write the uncomressed image to the SDcard

For Mac OSx

1) Use the tool available here:

Raspberry Pi Imager

2) Burn image to micro SD card

*If you need additional help use the link below:

SLES for Arm on Raspberry Pi

SLES First Boot

You will need a Monitor and Keyboard plugged into the Raspberry Pi for the first boot

1) Run through the first boot script answering the following questions:

Choose your local
Select Keyboard
Accept the licenses
Select Timezone
Enter a Password for the 'root' user
Enable Wifi if needed (Ethernet is strongly suggested)

The System will now reboot

2) Write down your Raspberry Pi IP address

Welcome to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3

eth01: 10.0.9.1 fe80::dea6:32ff:febb"6ffa
wlan0:

*At this point you can continue the rest of the setup via ssh

Completing Install from your workstation

1) Connect to server as root

 ssh [email protected]

*Note the by default on SLES for Raspberry Pi, root is the only user created by default

2) Register your Server

SUSEConnect -r INTERNAL-USE-ONLY-xxxx-xxxx

Example

Registering system to SUSE Customer Center
Using E-Mail: ###@###.com

Announcing system to https://scc.suse.com ...

Activating SLES 15.3 aarch64 ...
-> Adding service to system ...

Activating sle-module-basesystem 15.3 aarch64 ...
-> Adding service to system ...
-> Installing release package ...

Activating sle-module-server-applications 15.3 aarch64 ...
-> Adding service to system ...
-> Installing release package ...

Successfully registered system

*Note SLES for ARM is a different license than SLES for x86

3) Update to the latest patches and install yast2

zypper ref
zypper up -y
zypper in -y  -t pattern yast2_basis

4) Install additional software we will need to the Labs

** Note 'which' is needed for the k3s install and 'sudo' is not installed by default

zypper in -y sudo which curl nmap git-core bash-completion apparmor-parser

5) Change the Hostname - Please use your name as part of the hostname

hostnamectl set-hostname pi-YOURNAME-1

6) Disable the Firewall

systemctl disable --now firewalld

7) Create a tux User and set a password

useradd -m -g users tux
passwd tux

8) Reboot the workstation and login as tux

reboot

wait 30 seconds

9) connect to server as tux

ssh [email protected]