Hi, Sorry, i have not touched 7.3 in ages. You should be able to see some debug messages on the different consoles, they might be helpful.
Anas
David Claessens wrote:
Hi,
I have copied all cd's to hard-drive and made them available via NFS. Then I created a boot-disk and created the following info file in /suse/setup/descr on the bootdisk and on the installation media
Language: english Display: color Keytable: us
Bootmode: Net
IP: 10.2.1.201 Netmask: 255.0.0.0 Gateway: 10.1.1.20 Server: 10.2.1.1 Serverdir: /install Nameserver: 10.1.1.1 Netdevice: eth0
insmod eepro100
ELF MIN_YAST_VERSION 1.10 DIST_STRING SuSE DIST_IDENT SuSE-Linux-Professional-INT-i386-7.3.0#0 MIN_DIST_VERSION 7.3 PRODUKT_NAME SuSE Linux PRODUKT_VERSION 7.3 HAS_LIVE_CD=0
FAST_INSTALL 2 AUTO_LILO 2 AUTO_NET 1 AUTO_NAME 0 AUTO_NAMSERVER 1 AUTO_SERVICES 1 AUTO_INSTALL $I:/suse/setup/descr/Minimal+X11.sel ADD_INSTALL $I:/suse/setup/descr/Gnome.sel INSTALL_WAIT 0 CDROM_DEVICE /dev/hdb NO_ASK_SWAP 1 END_MESSAGE 0 END_STARTUP 0 CHECK_DEPENDENCY 0 NEVER_STOP 0
AUTO_FDISK 2 AUTO_FDISK_DISK /dev/hda AUTO_REMOVE_PART /dev/hda 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Furthermore I created the following part_00000 file on the bootdisk and on
Hi, I found the problem already. The linuxrc line in the syslinux.cfg file on the bootdisk stated auto2. I had to remove the 2 for it to work. However, currently yast crashes half way trough it. So I was wondering, how can I do an auto-install with the auto2 option or where can I find documentation about this ?? Maybe this doesn't crash on me and that would help me one step closer to my goal. With regards, David Claessens Anas Nashif wrote: the installation media in the same path as the info file
/ size=1000 id=83 bs=1024 err=c maxm=20 idns=4096 respc=5 SWAP size=1000 id=82 /usr size=5000 id=83 fsys=reiser /opt size=5000 id=83 fsys=reiser /tmp size=1000 id=83 fsys=reiser /var size=3000 id=83 fsys=reiser /home size=0 id=83 fsys=reiser
Yet everytime I boot the floppy, I get a manual install. What am I doing
wrong ??
with regards,
David Claessens