Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (88 mails)

[Felix Guettler <guettler@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi *,

i am already running a Redhat KickStart server, but im not very familiar
with SuSE AutoYast or ALICE. Actually i got a problem with the
Bootmanagement i guess. The system start up read the info file but can't
find a source to install from.

That is what i have already done:
- I set up a NFS service and i am exporting SuSE 8.0 FTP Version
(mirroring ftp.suse.com). The NFS Server is called "linuxsrv".
- I created a bootdisk (default) and added the "info" file and the
"autoinst.xml" to the root directory of the floppy.
- I created a modules disk (default). Then i replaced the initrd
with a new one (including 3c90x.o and aic7xxx.o).
- The autoinst.xml file was created with the yast2 mod and checked
with tidy.

That is what happen:
- After loading the kernel and modules from the disk the setup stops
with a message that says that the is no valid installation source.

I double check the nfs-server and it is possible to do a nfs-installtion
on the target system with the manual setup from the bootdisk.

Here is my info file ... i found example info-files with different
syntax in the www and i am not sure if this one is correct. I already
tried to use "<variable>: <value>" and "<variable>=<value>".

<code>
IP: 192.168.0.100
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.0.1

Server: 192.168.0.244
Serverdir: /home/ftp/pub/LinuxInstall/suse8.0_i386
Nameserver: 192.168.0.10
Netdevice: eth0

insmod aic7xxx
insmod 3c90x

autoyast=default
install=nfs://192.168.0.244/home/ftp/pub/LinuxInstall/suse8.0_i386
</code>

Would be nice if you could help me ... if you need further info please
drop me a line (mailto:guettler@xxxxxxxxxxxx).

Thank you,
Felix.

Excuse my basic level english.
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Felix V. Güttler
Fraunhofer FOKUS - VST