Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (88 mails)

[Anas Nashif <nashif@xxxxxxx>]

Ralf Pichler wrote:
> Hello Ansa,
>
> I am new on the AutoYast mailinglist and today i want to contact you
> with following problem:
>
> goal is to autoinstall SUSE 8.2 in a 3GB primary ext2 partition for "/"
> and 300 MB for an additonal 300MB swap (as primary) keeping the already
> existing logical 300 MB swap and 2500MB ext2 at the end of the harddisk.
>
> I use a grub bootfloppy with the image from your website. It loads the
> kernel via tftp and makes the rest via nfs. Yast2 starts and reads the
> autoinst.xml.
>
> Result: No space left on Harddisk.


> I made the section "region_entry config" by hand based on a start
> autoinst from yast2.
>
> To create the two additional partitions with parted is no problem, but
> yast2 has problems to do this.
>
> What could be the reason?

How does your control file look like?
You cant create new partitions if you want to keep other partitions at 
the end of the device. Only way this can work is if you format the 
partitions in question instead of creating them.


> My second problem is when booting with a compiled grub bootloader from
> floppy on a second PC. Here I build grub from the spec file with the
> option "--enable-eepro100" for supporting an Intel 82801 BD PRO/100 VE
> onboard network card. When booting with this floppy, the module EEPRO100
> can't be loaded. 
> Did I enable the correct network device in the spec file or which is the
> right one?

Some NICs have problems when used with grub. I am not sure about this 
specific one.


Anas+

> With regards and thanks for your affords,
>
> Ralf Pichler