June 2006 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

How to install all packages before reboot
by hanpingtian＠gmail.com 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

hi list, We are testing autoyast on sles10 now. We find that sles10 autoyast would install some packages after first rebooting. But we find that we need to install all packages before first reboot now. Is this preformable? What should we do ? Thanks!

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RAID-1 without specifying devices
by Darin Perusich 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

hello all, is it possible to setup RAID-1 mirrors in autoyast without specifying the device? i'm able to mirror all of the partitions when i specify the devices but when i remove the device, <device>/dev/sda</device> the installer fails because no devices have been specified. i'm running SuSE 9.3. thanks -- Darin Perusich Unix Systems Administrator Cognigen Corporation 395 Youngs Rd. Williamsville, NY 14221 darinper(a)cognigencorp.com

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automated installation interrupted
by Arvid Walter 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Hi, The autoyast installation stops and asks me to accept the settings [1][2] without any warning or error message appearing on the screen or in the logs. [1] http://img90.imageshack.us/my.php?image=autoyast4bt.jpg [2] http://img214.imageshack.us/my.php?image=autoyast26rv.jpg By the way, the autoyast generated xml files are not valid and cannot be verified using the dtd. I checked it myself with eclipse+oxygenxml - very many problems.

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rules
by Pablo Gomez 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Hello everyone, while i am a quite experiencied user of autoyast, it is the first time I use <rules>! From the docs I understand you should remove "autoyast=...", is it?. If I do this I get a manual installation, what seems reasonable as my new system knows nothing about where to fetch a control file! If, alternatively, I pass a "autoyast=http://10.7.5.100/autoinstall/", being this directory both valid and the container of a unique xml file (control.xml), that is: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE autoinstall SYSTEM "/usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/rules.dtd"> <autoinstall xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns"> <rules config:type="list"> <rule> <mac> <match>*</match> <match_type>exact</match_type> </mac> <result> <profile>default.xml</profile> <continue config:type="boolean">true</continue> </result> </rule> </rules> </autoinstall> pls have in mind I am still testing, and with this file I only pretend to use the whole default.xml (http://10.7.5.100/autoinstall/rules/default.xml) but it doesn't work. By the way, default.xml is a complete, valid and working control file, that has been previously tested in a "autoyast=http://10.7.5.100/autoinstall/default.xml" installation. Any help? Thanks in advance! Pablo Gomez

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Adding custom selections to a network installation source
by Danilo Godec 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hi, I'd like to create some custom package selections so users that (re)install their machines would have an easier job doing so. We're going to use SuSE 10.1. Now since I don't have that many machines to install (up to 10/month) I don't really want to mess with whole autoinstall/autoyast deal. I tried 'the simple way' - created a couple of '.sel' files, added those to the file 'selections'. I also added MD5 sums to the MD5SUMS file (and corrected the sum for 'selections' file). Then I tried installing from this network source - boot the machine with the CD, setup the NFS installation source. But when it comes to package evaluation/selection, the installation cannot find any packages. The log file reveal complaints about corrupted installation source... Is there a right way to do this? Thanks, Danilo

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I want to use remove-packages
by Erik Streb 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hello. I'm using suse-autoinstall with Suse Linux 10.1. In the software section of the xml-file I put some packages to remove (to not install). But after installation the packages are installed anyway. Why? Looks like this: <software> <addons config:type="list"> <addon>Kde-Desktop</addon> <addon>Min</addon> </addons> <base>Minimal</base> <remove-packages config:type="list"> <package>OpenOffice_org-de-templates</package> <package>OpenOffice_org-Quickstarter</package> <package>OpenOffice_org-de</package> <package>OpenOffice_org-kde</package> <package>OpenOffice_org</package> <package>beagle-firefox</package> <package>MozillaFirefox-translations</package> <package>MozillaFirefox</package> <package>acroread</package> <package>RealPlayer</package> <package>amarok</package> <package>amarok-helix</package> <package>flash-player</package> </remove-packages> </software> All of the packages in the remove-packages section are installed to my regret. Thanks Erik Streb

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Order of network interfaces?
by Johan Kielbaey 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

Hello, I'm using a http repository with tftp and dhcp. The environment i'm working in has meanly IBM servers, but from different models (x346, x306m, x366, ...). For each model i need to investigate which interface used by pxe maps to which ethX interface in linux. This gets even worse if with a new delivery there is another type of network card in the PCI slot. How are you handling different hardwaremodels? Is there a way to make sure that the 1st onboard interface also maps to eth0? This is my pxe-config file : #default label linux kernel linux-9sp3 append initrd=initrd-9sp3 ramdisk_size=65536 insmod=bcm5700 install=http://192.168.71.1/rp/x86/SLES9SP3 instmode=http bootpwait=10 dhcptimeout=120 usedhcp=1 textmode=1 autoyast=http://192.168.71.1/cf/sltr001/cf Thanks, Johan Mvg - Rgds Johan <johankielbaey(a)yahoo.com>

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more complex rules.xml examples?
by John SJ Anderson 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

I apparently need to use rules.xml to accomplish some of the gnarlier things I'd like to do with the autoinstaller. Unfortunately, the examples in the autoyast.pdf I have are pretty simple. Does anybody have pointers to more complex examples? (Like, ones that use multiple rule matches, config file merging, etc. etc.) thanks, john. -- "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." - physicist Max Planck

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Mounting a previously made sw raid partition
by Serge Wroclawski 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Hello, I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum, but I'm having an issue with Autoyast that I can't explain. I have two disks, sda and sdb. I am partitioning them and making a software RAID, md0 and md1. md0 (which is /)'s entry in Autoyast says: <format config:type="boolean">true</format> and it works fine. For md1 (which is /var) I'd like it not to format the partition, so I set it to <format config:type="boolean">false</format> It goes through the installer, but when I boot into the OS, it doesn't mount the partition. If I log in and run "mount -a", it mounts fine. I've tried changing the false to true, and if I do that, everything works fine- so there's something involved in telling Autoyast not to format the raid unit that keeps it from mounting properly. Since running mount manually works, it would seem that the raid device is fine, but it never mounts during the normal proces. Looking at /etc/fstab shows a line for /var that's good- with default mount options and 1 for dump, and 2 for passno. I'm really unsure of what could be the problem, but since the difference starts with autoyast, I'm starting here. Any help would be appreciated, - Serge

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RE: [suse-autoinstall] Network Installation nightmares
by fraser_bailey＠agilent.com 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

I found that I had to boot from the SP3 CD, once SP3 was in my depot. Booting from the base distro CD filaed, although I can't now remember what the error was. -----Original Message----- From: Francois Uldry [mailto:fu-laptop@hors-la-loi.ch] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 12:28 PM To: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-autoinstall] Network Installation nightmares Hello, This is driving me nuts, I am trying to get a simple Network Installation Server (over NFS) to work. What I have done : - Through the control centre, on a SLES 9 SP3, used the control panel to create a SLES Network Installation Image as documented, used the SLES 9 original CDs as delivered by Novell. Added the SP 3 CDs to the tree. - Configured DHCP and TFTP to allow network boot. (that works perfectly fine) I have : /install/SLES9, which is the root of the exported filesystem. My problem : - Booting from the network, Yast cannot find package description. Has anyone had that much trouble just getting to a network installation server ? Any help, question, idea welcome ! Best regards, François -- 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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