March 2003 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Partitioning plan and <use> values
by Claude ARNOLD 11 Mar '03

11 Mar '03

Hi, I have problem with my partitioning plan. My client /vag/y2log shows the following message: Last output: You must delete some partititions and add an extended partition first. I work with suse 8.1 and autoyast2-installation-2.6.40-0. On the client side the drive has linux partitions and an windows FAT (/dev/hda1) partition that I want delete and reuse as an linux partition. In the AutoYast2 documentation are four possibilities for the <use> tag: (chapter 4.1.4): Use free space -> free Reuse all available space -> all Reuse all available linux partition -> ? Reuse only specified partitions -> eg: 1,2,3, ... ? What is the <use> value for "Reuse all available linux partition" and "Reuse only specified partitions" ? And how can I tell autoyast2 to create an extended partition ? I read that it will be created automatically, where is the problem ? Best regards, Claude Arnold Laboratoire Emile Picard - UFR MIG Universite Paul Sabatier - 118, route de Narbonne 31062 TOULOUSE tel: +33 (0)5.61.55.62.26 Fax: +33 (0)5.61.55.82.00

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Not quite Auto-Install
by Christian Gnägi 05 Mar '03

05 Mar '03

Dear Sirs after reading the available documentation for autoyast, I am not sure if autoyast applies to my problem. (Suse 8.1 Pro) Contrary to many of you who have lots of machines with equal hardware to manage, I have a few machines to set up with different hardware. So I would really like to just 'save' and 'reload' my package selection from a master PC, and then interactively change and use it in the 'continue'-phase of the install, or even after the system has been installed to a minimal configuration. How would I go about this? Alternative question: where does Yast save the current package selection, and does it help to copy this over? Thanks Christian -- Christian Gnägi EDV-Beratung Ipsachstr. 16 CH-2563 Ipsach Tel: +41 32 3331351 Fax: +41 32 3331355 cg#gnasch.ch

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right syntax for starting AutoYast from a CD with a fix IP
by Prengel, Ralf 04 Mar '03

04 Mar '03

I try tp configure the isolinux.cfg to start the installation using the IP 192.168.2.195 for the new system. What is the right syntax? I read the online-FAQ and an artikel in the german linux-user. My AutoYast Version using DHCP works perfect Thanks Ralf Prengel

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Re: [suse-ham] Live eval CD??
by hb9irb 02 Mar '03

02 Mar '03

Hallo Sven, und alle danke für deine Unterstutzung, ich habe vielleicht mein Problem nicht richtig erklärt: Ich habe die CD erstellt aber sie ist leider nicht bootfähig. Pasquale Kann mir jemand der ganze Ablauf zeichen um diese bootfaehig CD zu erstellen? Hat jemand solche Erfahrung gemacht? >-----Original Message----- >From: Sven Schrage [mailto:sven.schrage@hamburg.de] >Sent: Freitag, 28. Februar 2003 18:27 >To: Paski >Subject: Mail in Newsgroup > > >Hallo Pasquale > >Öffne doch mal das *.iso als neues Projekt. >(Müßte irgendwo unter Datei => Öffnen oder so sein) > >Hat zumindest anschliessen unter Nero 5.5 und NT in der Firma bisher immer >geklappt !! > >Gruß aus Hamburg > >Sven > >PS wenns immer noch nicht hinhaut , nochmal 'ne Kurze Mail an >mich, ich schau >es mir dann am Montag nochmal an. > >PS 2 Ist glaub ich nicht ganz die richtige Group hierfür gewesen !?!? > >

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Partitioning
by Urs Haberthuer 01 Mar '03

01 Mar '03

Dear Anas, I am still troubled with the same partitioning problem I have asked about in this mailing list before. I would be very much interested in the following option for autoyast2: If a disk is already partitioned (from a prevoius installation, for instance), I would like to instruct autoyast2 which partitions to format and which ones to leave untouched (without recreating any of the partitions) on this disk. It seems there is a manual solution to this problem suggested by Rasmus Borup Hansen by telling autoyast2 to interrupt the installation for a manual partitioning session. While this probably works fine (I didn't test it yet), it is difficult to be realized for a large farm of machines. Do you plan to add such an option in the next SuSE release or in an update for SuSE 8.1? Best regards Urs Haberthuer -- Urs Haberthuer Department of Biochemistry University of Zurich Winterthurerstrasse 190 CH - 8057 Zurich Phone: ++41 (0)1 635 55 92 Fax: ++41 (0)1 635 68 62 E-mail: atlantis(a)bioc.unizh.ch

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