Select disk when installing SLES 12

When installing SLES(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) 12, I find the installation may corrupt other OSs. For example, I have two disks: the first(/dev/sda) has been installed the Fedora, and I want to install SLES on disk 2(/dev/sdb) :

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If no attention, the SLES may occupy both disks:

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The solutions is select “Create Partition Setup...“: 6

Select the second disk:

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Then “Next“, “Next“…. The SLES can do the partition automatically:

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You can install SLES now.

 

How to modify the local version of Linux kernel?

Execute “make menuconfig” command, then select “General setup” -> “Local version - append to kernel release“. Add you preferred name, e.g.: “.nan“, then save it.

Check if it is saved in .config file successfully:

[root@linux]# grep -i ".nan" .config
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=".nan"

After making sure it is saved successfully, you can execute “make” command.