Hi, This has nothing to do with autoyast, first you always have to veify a manual install works and if it does then autoyast will have no problems. But as I said before, multiple products on one CD is NOT supported and wont work, so you better think of some other way to do it. I also do not understand why you need this, if both trees are from the same product, then you can solve this with different selection files. Anas Markus.Steinfelder@finanzit.com wrote:

Anas Nashif An: Markus.Steinfelder@finanzit.com Kopie: suse-autoinstall@suse.com 23.11.2004 03:42 Thema: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Prob with multiple sles8 based distributionson one cdrom [FinanzIT: Viruscheck]

Markus.Steinfelder@finanzit.com wrote:

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Hi,

I want to install multiple sles8 based distributions form one cdrom/dvd.

I

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Anas, I have tried several install-parameter-combinations (i.e. install=device:/.., install=cdrom:/pf...) but they don't work as I hope... Also an install-path relative to the autoinst.xml-file doesn't work. I havn't found a complete list/documentation of install parameters in the AutoYaST guide. Is there a documentation about this paramter available?

Markus