Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (192 mails)

[Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

we are running autoyast for SLES9 on IBM pSeries. We install
over the network with bootp. Things went fine, until we added
SP1 the way Anas described it in the mails from last week.
But now installation fails because it can't find the core9
sources.

First I created the new "install" image from the SP1 directory
with mkzimage_cmdline for booting with dhcp/bootp.

Then I set up the NFS directory. It looks like:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           10 Jan 11 14:21 boot -> sles9/boot
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Jan 11 14:21 content -> sles9/content
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Jan 11 14:21 control.xml -> sles9/control.xml
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root          360 Jan 11 11:56 core9
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           22 Feb  4 09:17 driverupdate ->
sles9-SP1/driverupdate
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 Feb  4 09:17 linux -> sles9-SP1/linux
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Jan 11 14:21 media.1 -> sles9/media.1
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root          312 Jan 11 12:36 sdk9
drwxr-xr-x   12 root     root         1160 Jan 11 12:36 sles9
drwxr-xr-x   13 root     root         1496 Feb  4 09:16 sles9-SP1
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          104 Feb  4 09:12 yast

The contents of the sles9/, core9/ and sdk9/ directories have not changed,
we just added the sles9-SP1 directory and copied the CDs. Instead of
creating subdirs CD{?} there we just put all CD contents into the
subdirs which worked fine all the time. I.e., core9/ looks like

babbage 9/SuSE# ls core9
.  ..  ARCHIVES.gz  ChangeLog  INDEX.gz  content  directory.yast  ls-lR.gz  media.1
media.2  media.3  media.4  media.5  suse

We adjusted order and instorder:

/sles9-SP1      /sles9-SP1
/sles9          /sles9
/core9          /core9
/sdk9           /sdk9

/sles9-SP1
/sles9
/core9
/sdk9


Now, when I start the installation, everything goes fine and yast starts
installing the packages. here is a screenshot:
  http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/aysles9.jpg
on which you can see that it found all 4 install sources. But after a
few packages from the SP1, it says it can't find the packet "sles_admin_de"
on the installation source, then some more packages, and when I click "
ignore", it complains it can't find the core version 9 CD.
The differing numbers that are shown are from the media.1/media files
from the sles9/ and the core9/ subdir. When I manually add the core9/
subdir in the error window, that it continues to install and flip
flops between installing packages from core9 and SP1 etc. But initially
it seems to be unable to find the core9 sources in the core9/ subdir.

This problem did not occur before we added SP1, so it must be caused
by it somehow. Just like the additional SP1 dir make yast forget that
the core sources are in a subdir, so it is just considering the link
media.1 in the main dir instead of looking at core9/media.1...

Any ideas how to fix this?
cu,
Frank

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