Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (81 mails)

[Claude Arnold <arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I trie to install suse8.0 using autoyast throught the network.
The steps I use are the following:
1. the server has  a directory /tftpboot.
2. In this directory are the linux, initrd and syslinux.cfg files, these
are extracted from the suse8.0/disks/bootdisk (copied from the CD's)
file using mount -oloop.
3. In syslinux.cfg I put the following lines:

======================
default autoyast

# default
label autoyast
  kernel linux
  append  console=ttyS0,9800 console tty  initrd=initrd \
 autoyast=nfs://nfs_server/tftpboot/suse80/install.xml \
 install=nfs://nfs_server/tftpboot/suse80
  verbose 1

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4. Next I create a netboot file using mknbi-linux (which comes from
netboot package):
  mknbi-linux -a "linuxrc=auto rw ramdisk_size=65536" -r initrd linux
netboot

5. I boot from client, it loads the netboot file and after some messages
I have the following error message:

...
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
Freeing initrd memory: 4048k freed
Root-NFS: No NFS server availble, giving up
...

is there a problem with the initrd file ?
Can some one help me ?


Thanks

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Claude Arnold

Laboratoire Emile Picard - UMR 5580
Université Paul Sabatier - UFR MIG
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