Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (79 mails)

[Anas Nashif <nashif@xxxxxxx>]

* Rasmus Borup Hansen <rbh@xxxxxxxxxx> [Nov 14. 2002 15:38]:
> Hi! I recently got autoinstall to work, and yesterday I started
> experimenting with integrating the latest updates into the
> installation tree with my own scripts. Then things stopped to
> work. After installing the packages I get an error saying that 26 (or
> so) packages failed to install. Then, during bootloader installation,
> I get the following error:
> 
> /sbin/mk_initrd: line 399: /dev/fd/62: No such file or directory no
> '/' mountpoint specified in //etc/fstab. sed: Couldn't close {standard
> output}
> 
> This morning I deleted my installation tree on my nfs-server, copied
> everything from the cd's and ran "create_package_descr". Still the
> same problem. I also tried updating just "autoyast2" and
> "autoyast2-installation".
> 
> Any ideas? My control file is at

Let me guess,
Do you have /usr/share/autoinstall/EXTRA_PROV on the server where you run 
    create_package_descr
?



> 
> http://www.math.ku.dk/~rbh/test.xml
> 
> Another thing that might be relevant is that I do the partitioning by
> hand, since I have another OS at /dev/hda1 that I do not want to
> erase. Is there any way of saying "format /dev/hda3 with reiserfs,
> mount it as / and use /dev/hda4 for swap", but do not otherwise change
> the partitions, in the control file?
> 
> Also, I have to choose Danish keyboard by hand. Specifying Danish
> keyboard in the control file does not work.


Ok, checking..

Anas
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Rasmus
> 
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Anas Nashif <nashif@xxxxxxxx>, SuSE Linux AG
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