Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (88 mails)

["J.L.Francois" <jfranc46@xxxxxxxx>]

J.R.
I can show you examples of this on the various isolinux.cfg files we have 
already made.

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 12:47 pm, Anas Nashif wrote:
> Robison, Jonathon (M.) wrote:
> > What about the info file? I want to enforce the load structure, thus
> > I have to have different CD's with different info files pointing to
> > different xml files.
>
> No. Only one CD.
> You can have the different configurations set in the isolinux menu. all
> info vairables can be put into the kernel command line. It is also
> possible to have different info file with different names and point to
> them with info=file://<file name>.
>
> > i.e. one info file points to "laptop_developer.xml". Another points
> > to "laptop_user.xml" etc. etc. Those xml files also have a lot of
> > embedded scripts and config files to set up our krb5 authentication
> > as well as the pam_mount login mounting system. I can't let user's do
> > a "normal, choose what you want" install.
> >
> > For developers, I hand them the CD with the info file for developers.
> > Users get the CD with the info file pointing to the regular user.xml.
> > At least that's what I planned on doing.
> >
> > What I am hoping for is someone to tell me "edit these files ... put
> > everything in from all 5 floppies into one subdirectory somewhere . .
> > . now run mkisofs with these switches . . . burn the iso to CD."
>
> This is _not_  needed. The initrd on the 1st CD already has all mofules.
> You dont have to configure floippies then create a CD from them, this is
> a very long and error prone way.
>
> > Or am I misunderstanding how this all works? (It wouldn't be the
> > first time)
>
> Maybe :)
> Ig you have the possibility to boot from CDs, forget anything you know
> about floppies :-)
>
>
> Anas
>
> > --Jonathon
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From:	Anas Nashif [mailto:nashif@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent:	Wed 8/20/2003 12:11 PM To:	Robison, Jonathon (M.) Cc:
> > suse-autoinstall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject:	Re: [suse-autoinstall]
> > Switching from floppies to disk
> >
> > Robison, Jonathon (M.) wrote:
> >> I have created an install server, and the necessary floppies (1
> >> boot, 4 module). The info file is working on the module1 floppy,
> >> and installing from the http server, as desired.
> >>
> >> Can someone guide me on what I would need to do to combine all of
> >> these floppies into one image? I have some of those "Business Card"
> >>  CD's, capable of holding 50M.
> >
> > If you have this, then there is no need to create floppies at all,
> > just create a bootable CD using the kernel and initrd available on
> > the first CD in "boot/loader".
> >
> >
> > Anas

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