Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (92 mails)

[dfroehling <dfroehling@xxxxxxxx>]

I need to enter IP address and hostname manually at the boot prompt 
because this is customer specific.
I can't use DHCP or similar things for getting automatic addresses and 
so on.
Later my pre install script reads the hostname out of boot parameters 
and creates a serial number from it.

Harald Milz wrote:

> Question - why do you use a boot floppy in the first place, as 
opposed > to
> booting via PXE? If the machine's BIOS supports PXE this is far
> easier.


>> Hi,

>> I've got a big problem.
>> I try to install SuSE 8.2 with autoyast and use as bootdevice a
>> floppy
>> disk.
>> The rest of the installation (config file for autoyast, installation
>> directory) is available from the network.
>> I enter at the bootprompt "insmod=eepro100" but the installer never 
>> asks
>> for modules 3 disk.
>> After manually loading the correct module the installation takes
>> place.
>> Is it possible to tell yast/autoyast to load modules not only from
>> the
>> boot disk and modules 1?


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//  Dierk Froehling
//  aycan Digitalsysteme GmbH
//  Innere Aumuehlstr. 5
//  97076 Wuerzburg
//  Germany
//  phone: +49 (0)931 2 70 40 9-0
//  fax:   +49 (0)931 2 70 40 9-1
//  http://www.aycan.de

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