New subject: [suse-autoinstall] Using PXELinux for 8.1 Auto Install

13 Oct 2003

      Thanks Aaron! That helped a lot.

Now the problem is a bit peculiar; Installation error is "An error occured during installation" and the Alt_F3 screen reports this:

     /mounts/instsys/sbin/inst_setup: cannot execute binary file

What would have caused it? When I go to the shell on F2 screen, in fact I cannot execute any of those "executable"s

I have been using the initrd that would have been used for CD installations -- so that it has all modules in it. I wonder if that makes any difference...

Or, is there a way to specify the binary formats during installation?

Thanks in advance,
Fet
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maybe add "install=" to your append line:
label auto
   kernel linux  
   append initrd=initrd install="nfs://192.168.1.1/KS/SuSe81" 
autoyast="nfs://192.168.1.1/KS/SuSe81/autoinst.xml"
Also try not to let the append line get too long, there seems to be a limit on
how long it can be.
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 fetak@comcast.net wrote:
...
Hello,
I would like to use pxelinux to auto install SuSE81, but the installation
comes back with an error message "Could not find SuSE Linux Installation Source. 
Activate manual setup program."  I wonder if any of the configuration files I am 
using are wrong...  Does not seem to find the autoinst.xml file.  The NFS share 
is setup correctly since I was able to run other installations out of there...
...
Thanks in advance,
Fet
The default file pxelinux using is as follows.  This file is located under
pxelinux.cfg directory
...
---<default>---
default auto
implicit 1
timeout 60
prompt 1
# manual
label manual
  kernel linux
  append initrd=initrd ramdisk_size=65536 manual=1
label auto
  kernel linux  
  append initrd=initrd load_initrd=1 insmod=e100 netdevice=eth0
ramdisk_size=65536 autoyast=nfs://192.168.1.1/KS/SuSe81/autoinst.xml
...
--</default--->
And the autoinst.xml file specified above has the following contents:
---
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE profile SYSTEM "/usr/share/YaST2/include/autoinstall/profile.dtd">
<profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" 
xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns">
  <configure>
    <networking>
      <dns>
        <domain></domain>
        <hostname></hostname>
        <nameservers config:type="list"/>
        <searchlist config:type="list"/>
      </dns>
      <interfaces config:type="list"/>
      <routing>
        false
        <routes config:type="list"/>
      </routing>
    </networking>
    <scripts>
      <chroot-scripts config:type="list"/>
      <post-scripts config:type="list"/>
      <pre-scripts config:type="list"/>
    </scripts>
  </configure>
  <install>
    <bootloader>

      false
      <location></location>
    </bootloader>
    <general>
      <clock/>
      <keyboard/>
      <language></language>
      <mode>
        <interactive config:type="boolean">false</interactive>
        <reboot config:type="boolean">false</reboot>
      </mode>
      <mouse/>
    </general>
    <init>
      <domain></domain>
      <gateway></gateway>

# end_linuxrc_conf
# Do not remove the above comment
#]]>

      <instmode>nfs</instmode>
      <ip></ip>
      <keytable></keytable>
      <language></language>
      <nameserver></nameserver>
      <netmask></netmask>
      <partition></partition>
      <port></port>
      /KS/SuSe81

      nfs
      192.168.1.1
      <server>192.168.1.1</server>
      <serverdir>/LinuxImages/SuSe81</serverdir>
      <textmode config:type="boolean">false</textmode>
      <usedhcp config:type="boolean">true</usedhcp>
      <workdomain></workdomain>
    </init>
    <partitioning config:type="list">
      <drive>
        <device>/dev/hda</device>
        <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize>
        <partitions config:type="list">
          <partition>
            false

            <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <mount>swap</mount>
            131
            <size>auto</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            false

            <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <mount>/</mount>
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            <size>max</size>
          </partition>
        </partitions>
        <use>all</use>
      </drive>
    </partitioning>
    <raid config:type="list"/>
    <software>
      <addons config:type="list">
        <addon>Advanced-Devel</addon>
        <addon>Basis-Devel</addon>
        <addon>Basis-Sound</addon>
        <addon>Games</addon>
        <addon>Kde</addon>
        <addon>Kde-Desktop</addon>
        <addon>Network</addon>
        <addon>Office</addon>
        <addon>SuSE-Documentation</addon>
      </addons>
      <base>Minimal</base>
      <packages config:type="list"/>
    </software>
  </install>
</profile>
--<\autoinst.xml>

Re: [suse-autoinstall] Using PXELinux for 8.1 Auto Install

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Aaron McSorley

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