Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (73 mails)

[Anas Nashif <nashif@xxxxxxx>]

Robison, Jonathon (M.) wrote:
> Strangely enough, when I removed the extra path stuff, it worked. ;-)
>
>
> It also worked fine w/o the terminal definitions, etc. It came up
> during the last stage of the install, when it was already in a
> (frame-based?) graphical install mode. Seemed to go OK, except for
> the x11 one. It apparently hadn't yet installed a number of the base
> XFree packages it needed to do 'yast2 x11'.
>
> I'll keep your text in mind. Do the scripts execute in the order I
> enter them in autoyast? If so, I may need to re-order things.

Yes, and I would only run things in post scripts and not in chroot scripts.

Anas
> --Jon Robison
>
> -----Original Message----- From:	Anas Nashif [mailto:nashif@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent:	Tue 9/30/2003 8:13 PM To:	Robison, Jonathon (M.) Cc:
> suse-autoinstall@xxxxxxxx Subject:	Re: [suse-autoinstall] Scripting
> troubles
>
> Robison, Jonathon (M.) wrote:
>
> > Strangely enough, /var/adm/autoinstall has nothing but empty 
> > directories in it, with the exception of
> > ./cache/installedSystem.xml
>
>
> Script name has to be without any additional path information, only a
>  file name, and nothing else.
>
> You scripts wont work, as you are executing some gui stuff in a
> script. I have made a small test and it can work if you change the
> virtual terminal, for example, this would work:
>
> /bin/chvt 3 exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3 exec /sbin/yast2 proxy 
> /bin/chvt 1
>
>
> This would bring up the proxy configuration in text mode on the 3rd 
> terminal. This can be used with other yast2 modules I guess..
>
>
>
> Anas
>
>
>
>
> > --Jon Robison
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 10:44, damien.selles@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Did you check the logs generated by your chroot scripts?
> >
> > after the installation you should be able to access them here -> 
> > /var/adm/autoinstall/logs/
> >
> > and another question: why do you use /tmp/ in your filename? Maybe 
> > you should try without the /tmp/ before the filename.
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > Damien Selles
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Robison, Jonathon (M.)" <jrobiso2@xxxxxxxx> ford.com
> >
> > 30/09/2003 15:29
> >
> >
> > To: 	suse-autoinstall@xxxxxxxx cc:
> >
> >
> > Subject: 	[suse-autoinstall] Scripting troubles
> >
> >
> > I have added a number of scripts to my xml file, and yet they never
> >  get executed. I have tried pre, chroot, and post.
> >
> > These scripts are rather important, as they are intended to run
> > parts of yast2 after the install and help the user set up printing,
> > etc. and most especially, set suid on /usr/bin/smbmnt (otherwise
> > users cannot mount their windows shares themselves).
> >
> > Is there some known problem with the scripting? I've attached my
> > XML file just in case.