November 2003 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [suse-autoinstall] FC HBA module not loading
by Robison, Jonathon (M.) 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

Not sure about the loading part itself, but I do know that the driver itself isn't the best and SuSE had to provide us with a better/fixed one. Regards, Jonathon M. Robison

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FC HBA module not loading
by John Kufrovich 19 Nov '03

19 Nov '03

To all, I'm trying to automate my Boot to SAN deployments. But I'm running into an issue where my qla2300 module will not load. I'm using sp2a and UL. I can go through the steps manually and everything is fine. But, unattended, The err msg states " No disk found". Obvious, the qla2300 is not loading. lsmod confirms it. I can switch consoles and perform an insmod qla2300.o. Here is part of the control file. <install> <bootloader> <initrd_modules config:type="list"> <modules>qla2300</modules> <modules>reiserfs</modules> </initrd_modules> <activate config:type="boolean">true</activate> <kernel_parameters></kernel_parameters> <lba_support config:type="boolean">true</lba_support> <linear config:type="boolean">false</linear> <location>mbr</location> </bootloader> I've tried <modules> and <module> still no luck. Any ideas why the qla2300 module isn't loading. Regards, John Kufrovich

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Re: Re: [suse-autoinstall] /dev/cciss/c0d0 with reiser partition and grub problem
by j.rippel＠arcor.de 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

Hi, > >does anyone have a working xml file for SuSe9.0 using reiser-fs, compaq > >proliant and grub? > I had some problems here with the software selection obviously not > including the Minimal.sel packages. Adding them manually to the > software section did resolve the problems with grub. the "Minimal.sel" is the base selection: ----------------------------- <software> <base>Minimal</base> <kernel>k_deflt</kernel> <packages config:type="list"> <package>gdbm-devel</package> <package>k_deflt</package> <package>kernel-source-2.4.22</package> <package>mysql-client</package> <package>mysql-devel</package> <package>ncurses-devel</package> <package>perl-Apache-DBI</package> <package>perl-Apache-Session</package> <package>perl-Bit-Vector</package> <package>perl-CGI-Application</package> <package>perl-Crypt-SSLeay</package> <package>perl-DBI</package> <package>perl-Digest-HMAC</package> <package>perl-Digest-MD2</package> <package>perl-Digest-MD4</package> <package>perl-Digest-Nilsimsa</package> <package>perl-Digest-SHA1</package> <package>perl-HTML-Parser</package> <package>perl-HTML-SimpleParse</package> <package>perl-HTML-Tagset</package> <package>perl-IPC-Run</package> <package>perl-MIME-Lite</package> <package>perl-MIME-Types</package> <package>perl-MIME-tools</package> <package>perl-Msql-Mysql-modules</package> <package>perl-URI</package> <package>pico</package> <package>rsync</package> <package>sudo</package> <package>yast2-trans-de</package> </packages> </software> ----------------------------- The same installation is with ext2 filesystems working. But with reiser filesystems it isn't. Grüße Jörg

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] /dev/cciss/c0d0 with reiser partition and grub problem
by Thomas Mack 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Hi! >does anyone have a working xml file for SuSe9.0 using reiser-fs, compaq >proliant and grub? > I had some problems here with the software selection obviously not including the Minimal.sel packages. Adding them manually to the software section did resolve the problems with grub. Thomas Mack TU Braunschweig, Abt. Informationssysteme

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/dev/cciss/c0d0 with reiser partition and grub problem
by j.rippel＠arcor.de 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Hello, does anyone have a working xml file for SuSe9.0 using reiser-fs, compaq proliant and grub? This is my config and the installation failes with an error message from grub ("missing file"): ------------------------------------------------------- ... <bootloader> <loader_device>/dev/cciss/c0d0</loader_device> <loader_type>grub</loader_type> <location>mbr</location> </bootloader> ... <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/cciss/c0d0</device> <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <crypt>twofish</crypt> <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs> <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>/</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <size>256MB</size> </partition> <partition> <crypt>twofish</crypt> <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs> <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>/boot</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <size>128MB</size> </partition> <partition> <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <partition_id config:type="integer">130</partition_id> <size>512MB</size> </partition> <partition> <crypt>twofish</crypt> <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs> <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>/tmp</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <size>512MB</size> </partition> <partition> <crypt>twofish</crypt> <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs> <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>/usr</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <size>4GB</size> </partition> <partition> <crypt>twofish</crypt> <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs> <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>/var</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <size>max</size> </partition> </partitions> <use>all</use> </drive> </partitioning> ... ------------------------------------------------------- Gruesse Joerg Rippel

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installing SuSE
by Frederic 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Hi, I'm what you would call a Linux newbie started exploring Linux with RedHat 9 (don't worry my question will about SuSE) which I installed on a PC which is triple boot (two versions of XP and RedHat 9) using Grub. I'd like to compare SuSE with RedHat and would like to install SuSE 8.2 (or do you recommend waiting for 9) : my question is what partions do I need and can I e.g. (re)use the RedHat 9 swap partion (512MB) as well as the /boot partition (what would be the minimum space needed on /boot). I would keep both Linuxes and select the one I want to explore using Grub. My 80 GB disk looks like : XP (38GB, NTFS); RH9 /boot (102MB, ext3); RH9 SWAP (512MB); RH9 / (9.8GB, ext3); free 27 GB. The second XP system is on a second 20GB disk. Also where can I download the CD iso image for SuSE 8.2 ? All advice and comments welcome. Kind regards, Frederic

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[suse-autoinstall] Installation repository from CD images
by Harald.Milz＠computacenter.com 15 Nov '03

15 Nov '03

Hi, any takers to this one? I posted this some time ago, no answer yet... I am trying to set up an installation server from the respective CD images. I would like to just keep the images on the machine and mount them loop,ro, like /pub/SLD /pub/SLD/CD1 /pub/SLD/CD2 /pub/SLD/CD3 /pub/SLD/CD4 /pub/SLD/CD5 /pub/SLD/ISO /pub/SLES8-AMD64 /pub/SLES8-AMD64/ISO /pub/SLES8-AMD64/SLES8-CD1 /pub/SLES8-AMD64/SLES8-CD2 /pub/SLES8-AMD64/SLES8-CD3 /pub/SLES8-AMD64/SLES8-CD4 etc.... The ISO directories keep the images, the CD1,2,3.. directories are the mountpoints. I can't find any way to actually treat this structure as installation repositories. Has anybody had the same problem and can provide a nice solution? I would guess order / instorder is a solution but SLD and SuSE-8.2 don't have the yast directory. Seems I don't get it. Mit freundlichen Gruessen - Best regards Harald Milz Senior Consultant Enterprise Computing Solutions CC CompuNet AG & Co. oHG

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] I need a PXE Network Boot Install Guide/How-to!!
by D Umesh 15 Nov '03

15 Nov '03

Hi Anas I went through the doc. According to the doc, we require to setup BootP/DHCP and tftp servers. But in my current setup we have a netware server as dhcp server and I have configured tftp on suse 8.2 linux server. I don't know how to proceed. Is it possible to create a boot disk and a configuration file which gives information of NFS server, from where to get the IP (i.e., specifying the DHCP Server IP), hostname, router ..... I Have created 3 floppies according to the readme doc bootdisk.img modules1 modules3 (for network modules) Thanks and Regards Umesh >>> Anas Nashif <nashif(a)suse.de> 11/11/2003 8:28:04 PM >>> And docuemntation for 9.0 contains much more detailed info about network installation: http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/9.0/html/bootmanagement.html Anas Alfred Isele wrote: > > http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/ > http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/8.1/html/index.html > > Regards > Alfred > > At 08:04 11.11.03 GMT, marshall28(a)juno.com wrote: > >>Does anyone know of a good site with a step-by-step how-to on doing an > > automated network boot install with SuSe? I've found information on how a > tftp server is required as well as a dhcp server. I'm not sure how to > integrate everything together though. > >>thanks >>marshall >> >>________________________________________________________________ >>The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! >>Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! >>Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe(a)suse.com >>For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help(a)suse.com >> > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help(a)suse.com

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SuSE 8.1 Pro and P4 Hyperthreading
by C Ridley 15 Nov '03

15 Nov '03

Does anyone know which desktop versions of SuSE, if any, support or will work on P4 machines with Hyperthreading enabled? Was trying to install 8.1 Pro on an IntelD865GBFL w/HT enabled and though it would boot from the CD, it could not mount the CD for install, nor could it identify any IDE devices at all. Suspecting it is the HT, can anyone confirm/deny or shed light on it? The hardware DB states nothing remarkable either way about the Intel D865G board/chip. Which kernel (2.4.?) supports P4 Hyperthreading? Thanks Chris Ridley

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Post-package.
by Miro 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Hi, I am trying to install proftpd and proftpd-inetd using the "post-package" tag, but cant get it to work no matter what.! i've created a new package description with create_package_descr, and when i launch yast on the target system, the proftpd and proftpd-inetd packages are available. Here is the software section of the autoinstall.xml: <software> <post-packages config:type="list"> <package>proftpd</package> <package>proftpd-inetd</package> </post-packages> <base>Miniftp</base> The post-package tag dosent even work if proftpd is included in the Miniftp.sel file. but installs fine without the post-package tag. The reason why i want to use the post-package tag is that when i install the proftpd-inetd package without the tag, the original file (inetd.conf) is renamed to .newrpm and the new inetd.conf now only contains the proftpd section.! -- Thanks and best regards Miro Barbu.

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