Anton Altaparmakov wrote:

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, LDB wrote:

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I am not making myself clear. The autoyast.xml file is on the boot CD. The installation media is elsewhere. When it comes time for the autoyast.xml file to be recognized it is not found by the installer. The directives autoyast=file:///autoyast.xml does not work.

This is what my installation root looks on the CD,

drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 176 2006-01-07 23:30 ./ drwxrwxrwt 45 root root 2456 2006-01-08 11:45 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17360 2006-01-07 23:30 autoyast.xml drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 328 2005-09-14 21:04 boot/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 692 2005-09-14 19:34 content drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 152 2005-09-14 19:55 media.1/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-09-14 21:04 suse/

Am I wrong in thinking it can be recognized on the boot CD?

You are right in that but you are doing it wrong. You have to place the file in the initrd of the cd not in the root directory of the cd if you want to use the autoyast=file syntax.

If you place it in the root of the cd, then the correct syntax is:

autoyast=device://hda/autoyast.xml

Assuming hda is your cdrom drive (which it is on a scsi/sata only + pata cd/dvd-rom drive system).

That works fine for me.

Best regards,

Anton

Excellent .. thank you ... LDB