Hi all! I try to build a single boot floppy for the autoinstall procedure. As the hardware is quite similar (i.e all nodes have 3com NICs), I'm quite annoyed by the fact, that I have to use three floppies until the automatic installation starts. I use an install server (NFS) and profiles depending on the client ip (gethostip). After erasing needless things like memtest and suselogo and adding to modules (reiserfs.o and 3c59x.o) to the initrd, I still don't have enough space on the floppy for all data. So I reduced the kernel by creating a special installation kernel that lacks of ISDN, sound, v4l, IrDA etc. Now everything fits onto one floppy, but the autoinstall process hangs at the point where the root image is mounted from the NFS sever by the client.
From the log file on console <F3>: ---8<--- OK, going to mount 0.0.0.0:/home/install auto2_net_dev: 464 NFS mount ok. inst_check_instsys:780 ramdisk_ig = 0 setfont lat1-16.psfu (map none) Setting up localhost...done going fot automatic install mount: /var/adm/mount/suse/images/root: we need a loop device mount: using /dev/loop0 mount: /dev/loop0: No such device ---8<---
I've doublechecked that the network works, the installation sources are mounted and that the kernel has "loop device" enabled. If I try to mount manually on console <F9> with the command "mount /var/adm/mount/suse/images/root /mnt -o loop" I get the error message: "mount: invalid number of arguments" Any hints? Has anyone succeeded in building such a bootdisk? Kind regards, Andreas -- Andreas Rother - E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH & Co. KG