Your first problem: on the first cd, in the directory /boot/loader/ is the isolinux.cfg (SuSE 9.0).
default linux
# hard disk
label harddisk
kernel linux
append SLX=0x202 showopts
# install
label linux
kernel linux
append initrd=initrd ramdisk_size=65536 splash=silent showopts acpi=off <----------- add this!
Your third problem: in /suse/setup/descr/ is the file packages!
=Ver: 2.0
##----------------------------------------
=Pkg: 3ddiag 0.703 159 i586
+Req:
/bin/sh
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
/bin/sh
ld-linux.so.2
libc.so.6
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libhd.so.7
rpmlib(PayloadIsBzip2) <= 3.0.5-1
-Req:
+Prq:
/bin/sh
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadIsBzip2) <= 3.0.5-1
-Prq:
+Prv:
3ddiag = 0.703-159
-Prv:
=Grp: System/Base
=Lic: GPL
=Src: 3ddiag 0.703 159 src
=Tim: 1064411185
=Loc: 1 3ddiag-0.703-159.i586.rpm <---------------------- Loc: 1 means the package is on CD 1!
=Siz: 27266 50861 change all Loc : X to Loc: 1 if you have all
+Aut: packages on one cd!
Stefan Dirsch
-Aut:
##----------------------------------------
=Pkg: BASS 20030801 50 i586
+Req:
scummvm
timidity
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Von: steven.cardinal@adheris.com [mailto:steven.cardinal@adheris.com]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. Januar 2004 16:10
An: suse-autoinstall@suse.com
Betreff: [suse-autoinstall] Problems customizing an install CD
I'm new to both SuSE and Autoyast. I've read through the autoinstall docs on
the Suse site and find that I don't seem to know enough about autoyast in
the first place to figure out what they are telling me. Here's what I've
done and the problems I am having:
I created a directory /SUSE9 and copied (cp -a /mnt/* /SUSE9/) all 5 CDs
into this directory. I setup Yast to use this as a repository (I already
used Yast update to patch this machine, so my yast utilities should be the
latest available). I found that, using the GUI to select my source
directory, if it appends a trailing / to the path (/SUSE9/) - it is not seen
as a valid source. Finally figured that out and got autoyast to see the
directory as well.
I created a config for a server I am building. I used the Minimal+X11
selection plus added dhcp and bind. I setup some user accounts, etc.
Everything seemed fine (the disks on this compaq dl360 show as /dev/ida/c0d0
so I had to hand-edit my config file afterwards). I then chose to build an
ISO based on this config. It said it found all the necessary files and
created an iso file, which I burned to media.
First problem I had was that the compaq seems to have acpi issues, so I had
to boot the cd with "linux acpi=off". Is there a way to configure autoyast
to add those parameters by default? This CD will be used to rebuild the
system should it die for some reason (hard drive crash or something) - it
would be easier to hand off to my support people if they had very few ways
of generating problems ;-)
Second, I had an error installing grub (in the config file I told it to use
the MBR and to replace what is there) The error was 'File not found'. I
chose to reconfigure and retry and it worked ok - not sure if this is a
problem with this particular machine or in my config. Any ideas?
Next, it rebooted and went to install packages, but it suddenly couldn't
find most of my packages and started prompting me for CD2. Shouldn't the
'Create ISO' setup the necessary paths in the iso image so that it works? Is
there something I have to configure elsewhere?
Once I get past this I'll hack away at adding extra packages (samba3, etc).
I haven't had any luck getting autoyast to recognize my custom .sel file (it
can't open any of my CD-provided .sel files either, so I don't understand
how it works)
Also, autoupdate pulls down patch.rpm files. Is there a way to apply these
to my source directory so that my final build cd is patched already?
Thanks
Steve
Oh, is there any plan to make the mailing list archives searchable?
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