Prob with multiple sles8 based distributions on one cdrom [FinanzIT: Viruscheck]
Hi, I want to install multiple sles8 based distributions form one cdrom/dvd. I have created an image with the following layout: ../boot ../boot/loader ../media.1 ../pf ../pf/serv1 ../pf/serv1/suse ../pf/serv1/suse/i386 ../pf/serv1/suse/i586 ../pf/serv1/suse/i686 ../pf/serv1/suse/noarch ../pf/serv1/suse/setup ../pf/serv1/suse/setup/descr ../pf/serv1/boot ../pf/serv1/media.1 ../pf/serv2 ../pf/serv2/suse ../pf/serv2/suse/i386 ../pf/serv2/suse/i586 ../pf/serv2/suse/i686 ../pf/serv2/suse/noarch ../pf/serv2/suse/setup ../pf/serv2/suse/setup/descr ../pf/serv2/boot ../pf/serv2/media.1 serv1 and serv2 have different incompatible software stacks. So I have two complete copies of distributions parallel on the cdrom but only one bootloader.... When I run autoyast via tftboot/nfs everythings works fine using the following isolinux.cfg: DEFAULT serv1 DISPLAY /pxelinux.cfg/msg TIMEOUT 150 PROMPT 1 # srv1 label srv1 kernel linux append initrd=initrd install=nfs://192.168.0.1/pf/serv1 autoyast=nfs://192.168.0.1/pf/serv1/autoinst.serv1.xml textmode=1 # srv2 label srv2 kernel linux append initrd=initrd install=nfs://192.168.0.1/pf/serv2 autoyast=nfs://192.168.0.1/pf/serv2/autoinst.serv2.xml textmode=1 When I run autoyast from cdrom with the following isolinux.cfg DEFAULT serv1 DISPLAY msg TIMEOUT 150 PROMPT 1 # srv1 label srv1 kernel linux append initrd=initrd install=cdrom:/ autoyast=device://sr0/pf/serv1/autoinst.serv1.xml textmode=1 # srv2 label srv2 kernel linux append initrd=initrd install=cdrom:/ autoyast=device://sr0/pf/serv2/autoinst.serv2.xml textmode=1 I get the Error "Fehler bei der Konfiguration der Sofware Auswahl". Some tests have shown that autoyast wants to read the sel-files and the packages file from /suse/setup/descr instead of /pf/serv1/suse/setup/descr (If I copied one version of it to the /suse/setup/descr directory, autoyast works fine). I think the problem is in the install parameter and autoyast can't find the special "root-directory" of the distribution but I havn't found any documentation about it. Where are the differences between cdrom and nfs installation? Greets Markus Steinfelder
Markus.Steinfelder@finanzit.com wrote:
Hi,
I want to install multiple sles8 based distributions form one cdrom/dvd. I have created an image with the following layout:
../boot ../boot/loader ../media.1 ../pf ../pf/serv1 ../pf/serv1/suse ../pf/serv1/suse/i386 ../pf/serv1/suse/i586 ../pf/serv1/suse/i686 ../pf/serv1/suse/noarch ../pf/serv1/suse/setup ../pf/serv1/suse/setup/descr ../pf/serv1/boot ../pf/serv1/media.1 ../pf/serv2 ../pf/serv2/suse ../pf/serv2/suse/i386 ../pf/serv2/suse/i586 ../pf/serv2/suse/i686 ../pf/serv2/suse/noarch ../pf/serv2/suse/setup ../pf/serv2/suse/setup/descr ../pf/serv2/boot ../pf/serv2/media.1
serv1 and serv2 have different incompatible software stacks. So I have two complete copies of distributions parallel on the cdrom but only one bootloader....
When I run autoyast via tftboot/nfs everythings works fine using the following isolinux.cfg: DEFAULT serv1 DISPLAY /pxelinux.cfg/msg TIMEOUT 150 PROMPT 1 # srv1 label srv1 kernel linux append initrd=initrd install=nfs://192.168.0.1/pf/serv1 autoyast=nfs://192.168.0.1/pf/serv1/autoinst.serv1.xml textmode=1 # srv2 label srv2 kernel linux append initrd=initrd install=nfs://192.168.0.1/pf/serv2 autoyast=nfs://192.168.0.1/pf/serv2/autoinst.serv2.xml textmode=1
When I run autoyast from cdrom with the following isolinux.cfg DEFAULT serv1 DISPLAY msg TIMEOUT 150 PROMPT 1 # srv1 label srv1 kernel linux append initrd=initrd install=cdrom:/ autoyast=device://sr0/pf/serv1/autoinst.serv1.xml textmode=1 # srv2 label srv2 kernel linux append initrd=initrd install=cdrom:/ autoyast=device://sr0/pf/serv2/autoinst.serv2.xml textmode=1
I get the Error "Fehler bei der Konfiguration der Sofware Auswahl". Some tests have shown that autoyast wants to read the sel-files and the packages file from /suse/setup/descr instead of /pf/serv1/suse/setup/descr (If I copied one version of it to the /suse/setup/descr directory, autoyast works fine). I think the problem is in the install parameter and autoyast can't find the special "root-directory" of the distribution but I havn't found any documentation about it. Where are the differences between cdrom and nfs installation?
Beside the fact that mutiple products on one CDs does not work, although it is actually implemented, but was never tested, you boot parameter cant make it work. How do you expect yast to know where the packages are when you specify install=cdrom:/ in both cases? YaST knows nothing about /pf/serv1 and /pf/serv2 Anas
Greets Markus Steinfelder
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