August 2006 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Installation with Autoyast: Frequency at 171 Hz
by Daniel Spannbauer 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

Hello, im starting Autoyast after Boot over PXE from the Network. The Installation-Source is mounted via NFS. The System is booting normaly with the PXE-Boot. The, when Yast starts my monitor says "Out of Range" an the Frequency ist displayed with 171 Hz. Graphics-Card is a Palit Daytona with a Geforde4-MX440. The same PC with a ATI Radeon7000 has now Problem. Can anybody give me a hint? Regards Daniel

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Peter J Bergmann/EMD/Merck ist außer Haus.
by Peter.J.Bergmann＠merck.de 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Ich werde ab 14.08.2006 nicht im Büro sein. Ich kehre zurück am 18.08.2006. Bitte wenden Sie sich bei dringenden Angelegenheiten an unix(a)merck.de oder an Tel. 8383.

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System does not boot after Netwrok installation
by Martin Mewes 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Hi all, maybe this is a very common one, but I simply bang my head against this wall not knowing what to do anymore. I setup my system (SUSE Linux 10.1) as normal, manually from DVD. With YaST2 I configured a NFS share for network installation. With "Automatic Installation" I cloned the system to a file named "config.xml". The NFS source is a notebook and completely the same like nine others I have, so I just want to apply the installation from the first one to all the others. Well of course I do not want to deploy the network settings, so I would like to set that manually during stage 2 of installation (together with the hostname), but everything else should be identical. So I opened the cloned profile "config.xml" and did a reset on the NIC configuration and (you never now) on the graphic cards section to let them detect during installation. The changed file now is stored as config.xml in /shares/nfs/amilo I turn on another notebook and start the installation from DVD and write the relevant append line autoyast=nfs://192.168.1.80/shares/nfs/amilo and now the fun begins. Sometimes this just wents through, sometimes the path must be entered again, sometimes he wants to have .../amilo/config.xml, but in the end ... Well, the filesystem is initialized to be sure that the complete harddrive is flushed. For my systems I only need one partion for swap and / so I just let autoyast autoset these things and all works, the packages are being installed and I get my cup of coffee. Then the system reboots and ... nothing happens. Grub does not start to boot. I only see a flickering cursor in the very left upper corner of the screen and that's it. I can boot up the system via the "boot installed system" option from the DVD and the installation goes to stage 2, but I would like to know what I can do to tell grub to just start my system. Just to be sure: My system is a plain install with no added packages from the internet. All packagages are from the DVD media and my "master" notebook has all updates installed. Freundliche Grüße / kind regards Martin Mewes MCSE +M 2003, MCSA +M 2003 -- http://www.mamemu.de/ mamemu - edv-dienstleistungen http://mbox.mewes.tv/ mailboxen zum downloaden

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Solved: copy files from cd
by Stefan Reisinger 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

I've found a solution, but I still don't know where the dvd is mounted :-( I've written the following script to mount a medium which is only know by the label and not by device. The main problem is the following: YaST mounts and unmounts the medium whenever he likes to, and - it is unmounted while executing the chrooted-scripts. #!/bin/sh hwinfo --cdrom > cdrom cat cdrom | fgrep -e "Device File:" -e "Volume ID:" > cdrom1 cat cdrom1 | grep -n "Volume ID: \"LABEL_HERE\"" | awk '{ print substr($0,1,1) }' > cdrom2 cat cdrom1 | head -n $((`cat cdrom2`-1)) | tail -n 1 | awk '{ print substr($0,16,100) }' > cdrom3 mkdir /dvdmnt mount `cat cdrom3` /dvdmnt rm cdrom cdrom1 cdrom2 cdrom3 this mounts the dvd to /dvdmnt - now you can copy everything you want from the medium and unmount it later. Stefan 2006/8/15, Stefan Reisinger <st.reisinger(a)gmail.com>: > > hello, > > does anybody know how to copy a specific file during (after) the > autoinstallation from the installation cd (dvd)? I saw the dvd was mounted > on /mnt/var/tmp/AP_0x00000001/, but i'm not able to copy anything via > chrooted-script nor post-install script. Does anybody have an idea how to do > this? > > Yours, > Stefan > > -- > > Stefan Reisinger > http://stefanreisinger.at.tf > -- Stefan Reisinger http://stefanreisinger.at.tf

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copy files from cd
by Stefan Reisinger 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

hello, does anybody know how to copy a specific file during (after) the autoinstallation from the installation cd (dvd)? I saw the dvd was mounted on /mnt/var/tmp/AP_0x00000001/, but i'm not able to copy anything via chrooted-script nor post-install script. Does anybody have an idea how to do this? Yours, Stefan -- Stefan Reisinger http://stefanreisinger.at.tf

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captions of the cd bootmenu - isolinux.cfg?
by Stefan Reisinger 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Hello, I've created my own SuSE DVD and would like to modify the DVD-bootloader which is located in boot/i386/loader, too. There is a file named isolinux.cfg - behind the keyword "label" I can change the indicated names of the menu entries. Unfortunately it is not possible to use blanks in this name. SuSE used however menu options as "boot from harddisk" or "manual installation". How and where can I define these menu options? Stefan -- Stefan Reisinger http://stefanreisinger.at.tf

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software selection
by Stephen Mah 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Hi, Is there a way to tell autoyast to install everything? I'm looking at suse/setup/descr/selections. Looks like those are just software groups. steve

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] Eigene DVD: Autoyast findet pakete nicht
by Volkmar Glauche 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Stefan Reisinger wrote: > Am 14.08.06 schrieb Volkmar Glauche <volkmar.glauche(a)uniklinik-freiburg.de>: > > Your package structure seems to be ok, the rpm seems to be fetched, but > > it is failing to install - the rpm post install scriptlet fails. Did you > > get any more detailed information in the error message window? > > no, all i got is what i've written... hmm. > Perhaps the RPM requires some binaries that are not found during > > installation (there > > are no paths set during installation, and I did not get Uwe's trick to > > work setting the path through linuxrc - so, all commands called during > > install must be called using absolute path names). > > > no, the problem is that i've exported the settings after the installation > via '[x] create autoyast configuration file' - so all rpm-requirements seem > to be ok. > maybe some else has an idea? That doesn't mean anything - yast/autoyast will not check whether your rpm will be installable in the installation environment. And it is probably not package/software requirements that fail, but the individual post-install scriptlet contained in your custom rpm package returns an error condition during install. I don't remember the exact syntax, but you can use rpm to display the contents of the scripts in your package. Have a look at this script whether there is some code that could fail during install. Volkmar > > On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Stefan Reisinger wrote: > > > > > hallo, > > > > > > ich versuche schon seit längerem, eine eigene suse-10.1-dvd zu > > > brennen > > > (inkl. autoyast). die pakete sind odnungsgemäß in die orderstruktur > > > einsortiert, die md5sums erzeugt und signiert (via makeSUSEdvd)... > > > Doch nun meldet YaST beim Installieren via Autoyast: > > > > > > Die Installation des Pakets [...] ist fehlgeschlagen. > > > Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: %post scriptlet failed, > > exit > > > status 255 > > > > > > Was bedeutet das genau? Ich habe übrigens via autoyast-xml-datei > > > schon > > > versucht, über <signatue-handling> die prüfung auf korrekte signatur > > bzw. > > > md5sum zu umgehen, trotzdem funktioniert es nicht. > > > > > > Hat irgenjemand eine idee, woran das liegen könnte? > > > > > > lg > > > stefan > > > > > > > -- > > Volkmar Glauche > > - > > Department of Neurology volkmar.glauche(a)uniklinik-freiburg.de > > Universitaetsklinikum Freiburg Phone 49(0)761-270-5331 > > Breisacher Str. 64 Fax 49(0)761-270-5416 > > 79106 Freiburg > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > > For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help(a)suse.com > > > > > > > -- Volkmar Glauche - Department of Neurology volkmar.glauche(a)uniklinik-freiburg.de Universitaetsklinikum Freiburg Phone 49(0)761-270-5331 Breisacher Str. 64 Fax 49(0)761-270-5416 79106 Freiburg

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Eigene DVD: Autoyast findet pakete nicht
by Stefan Reisinger 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

hallo, ich versuche schon seit längerem, eine eigene suse-10.1-dvd zu brennen (inkl. autoyast). die pakete sind odnungsgemäß in die orderstruktur einsortiert, die md5sums erzeugt und signiert (via makeSUSEdvd)... Doch nun meldet YaST beim Installieren via Autoyast: Die Installation des Pakets [...] ist fehlgeschlagen. Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: %post scriptlet failed, exit status 255 Was bedeutet das genau? Ich habe übrigens via autoyast-xml-datei schon versucht, über <signatue-handling> die prüfung auf korrekte signatur bzw. md5sum zu umgehen, trotzdem funktioniert es nicht. Hat irgenjemand eine idee, woran das liegen könnte? lg stefan

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Create a SLES-10 installation source
by tobias.mucke＠man-mit.com 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Hi everybody, since we build a lot of RPMs on our own I want to create my own installation source besides the original suse media. I realized that with SLES-9, but SLES-10 is different, isn't it? I tried the scripts available on the AutoYaST website. But without any luck. Maybe it is just a documentation issue. Here is what I do: sysadm@instserver:~> cd /srv/nfs/autoinstall/SUSE/SLES-10/X86 sysadm@instserver:/srv/nfs/autoinstall/SUSE/SLES-10/X86> la total 1 drwxr-xr-x 3 sysadm sysadm 80 2006-08-10 12:04 . drwxr-xr-x 4 sysadm sysadm 96 2006-08-10 11:22 .. drwxr-xr-x 10 sysadm sysadm 1024 2006-08-10 11:13 SUSE-DIST sysadm@instserver:/srv/nfs/autoinstall/SUSE/SLES-10/X86> mkdir MIT sysadm@instserver:/srv/nfs/autoinstall/SUSE/SLES-10/X86> create_update_source.sh MIT Creating MIT/updates.. /EXTRA_PROV not found, trying to find it elsewhere... using settings: datadirs: MIT/updates/ languages: english output dir: MIT/updates/ is not a directory: ignoring extra_provides: MIT/updates//EXTRA_PROV done processed 0 packages now recoding to UTF-8: packages packages.DU packages.en sysadm@instserver:/srv/nfs/autoinstall/SUSE/SLES-10/X86> find MIT MIT MIT/yast MIT/yast/order MIT/yast/instorder MIT/updates MIT/updates/directory.yast MIT/updates/content MIT/updates/packages MIT/updates/packages.DU MIT/updates/packages.en MIT/updates/media.1 MIT/updates/media.1/directory.yast MIT/updates/media.1/media MIT/updates/media.1/products MIT/updates/EXTRA_PROV sysadm@instserver:/srv/nfs/autoinstall/SUSE/SLES-10/X86> The next step documented online is not possible because I don't have any updates/suse/i586. Any help appreciated. Tobias This message and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please telephone or email the sender and delete this message and any attachment from your system. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy this message or attachment or disclose the contents to any other person.

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