http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502930 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502930#c2 Scott Couston changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |alpha096@virginbroadband.co | |m.au --- Comment #2 from Scott Couston 2009-05-12 12:50:23 MDT ---

From What I understand with default installations the installation images are deployed into a swap drive ( could be wrong here). We can leave this alone but duplicate the normal Yast Installation Configuration at the same time. If the PC crashed during default Installation a re-boot can then read the file on the root partition to complete a stage by stage installation.

The file fall-back which could be created from the images at the same time, could work in much the same way as a non-automated installation where any part of it fails and the user re-boots the PC. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502930 User locilka@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502930#c3 Lukas Ocilka changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P2 - High Component|Installation |Installation Platform|x86-64 |All Version|Final |Milestone 3 Product|openSUSE 11.1 |openSUSE 11.2 OS/Version|openSUSE 11.1 |Other Severity|Critical |Enhancement --- Comment #3 from Lukas Ocilka 2009-07-16 03:13:35 MDT --- I hope I understand you correctly that you propose this: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If automatic configuration fails (not aborted by user, but really failed) for whatever reason, after reboot, second stage should switch to non-automatic configuration to prevent from 'automatic' failures again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502930 User coolo@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502930#c5 Stephan Kulow changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED CC| |coolo@novell.com Info Provider|coolo@novell.com | --- Comment #5 from Stephan Kulow 2009-07-21 04:00:26 MDT --- guess it depends on definition of "failure", but yes if there is a severe problem asking the user is not the worst choice. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502930 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502930#c7 --- Comment #7 from Scott Couston 2009-08-03 23:08:15 MDT --- I would just us to comment under this bugs context that we... seriously need to reconsider our current default unattended installation. I dont know why we want to re-invent the wheel or rewrite history. History made it quite clear in the low 90'2 that the market would not put-up with unattended installations. Unattended Installations were completely abandoned in 95, but remained optional along with admin installations and client installations. I think we need to concentrate on auto Yast instead of any default unattended installations. Let some one else spend millions on market research and usability issues. I am not suggesting that we follow, but we need to learn free lessons from history as our market has NOT changed and is not going to in the near future. We need to stop making technocratic decisions and base everything we do on past demonstrated usability mistakes. We know quite clearly that hardware vendors will no longer be dictated to, nor large companies of late. The continued attitude that an O/S will dictate to Hardware is over! This sounds loud and clear and hit at immeasurable expense to other O/S. Large companies also joined in ringing this bell. No one wants to commit corporate suicide with a new or different O/S or environments. Usability is everything! We keep our current users close and our oppositions closer. With respect to the answer in comment #5...I describe 'failure' as any early termination of the GUI installation that a re-boot can not recover nor solve. One of the problems is we write the user preferences to swap in a automated installation (I think is swap) and if we re-boot we still recover those same images so the error that caused the 'failure' will still occur. I would suggest that if an installation 'fails' we flush the swap and reboot the PC, and pick up on the Installation where set decision have been made and then continue, rather than currently re-boot and re-read the image in swap that caused the 'failure' in the first instance. Please let me know if I have made any unsound technical statements about the writing of installation setup files based on environment above. I used a lot of logic in this comment, but perhaps my limitation on actuals may not be sound...;-) -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502930 Scott Couston changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blocks| |502580 -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502930 Lukas Ocilka changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P2 - High |P4 - Low -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502930 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502930#c8 Scott Couston changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jsrain@novell.com, | |locilka@novell.com --- Comment #8 from Scott Couston 2009-09-10 13:39:27 MDT --- locilka - How does an Installation bug that falls over to a console prompt and cannot be completed, be anything but a BUG - Yet we have it now as assignment and your original assignment from High is now low. The shell Bugzilla screen clearly states the reporters priority in the bug as such, as there is a total loss of information when install falls over. Comments please???? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502930 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502930#c10 Scott Couston changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |qa@suse.de --- Comment #10 from Scott Couston 2009-10-25 14:46:11 MDT --- QA - Please see comment #8 How does an Installation bug that falls over to a console prompt and cannot be completed, be anything but a Critical BUG - Yet we have it now as assignment to an Enhancement??????????? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502930 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502930#c12 Lukas Ocilka changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |CLOSED Resolution| |FEATURE --- Comment #12 from Lukas Ocilka 2011-03-24 09:22:16 UTC --- Sorry, ENOTIME You can still put it into openFATE, IMO it would make sense -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.