Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (86 mails)

[Matthias.Eble@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Uwe Gansert <ug@xxxxxxx> schrieb am 20.05.2005 15:42:48:

> Is that machine a 9.3 too? I would suggest to start with an empty 
profile and 
> then configure all you need (partitioning, software, network, root 
password) 
> from scratch. Then you have a better overview on what you have 
configured in 
> the profile.

My aim is to clone this 9.3 machine. Starting with an empty profile looks
kinda hard to me since I need to use LVM. Yast tells me:

"For LVM and RAID setup, consult the documentation and add the 
configuration to
an existing control file."

Is the documentation mentioned the one located in /usr/share/doc/packages?


> 
> > With DTD:
> >
> > /tmp/YaST2-15489-tNCLVw/valid.xml:12: element device_map: validity 
error :
> > No declaration for attribute type of element device_map
> >       <device_map config:type="list">
> >                                     ^
> > What was wrong?
> 
> I don't know. It might help to see the profile.xml. Can you post it?
> 
Where should it be located?


> thank you, that's a bug. I fixed that and you can download new RPMs from 
here:
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ug/RPMs/9.3/autoyast/
> 

> >  - created a dummy partition maually without the crypt option being
> > checked:
> > <partition>
> >             <crypt>twofish256</crypt>   ... I don't know the 
internals,
> > perhaps I'm wrong, but.. maybe you can tell me
> 
> I'm not sure if I undrestand your question right but the <crpyt> tagdoes 
not 
> meant that the partition is encrypted. So it can always be there anddoes 
not 
> hurt. It's just an information IF the partition is encrypted.
Ok, you got me. It looked diffusing to me ;)

> 
> >  - Configuring my partition setup after generating a reference file 
isn't
> > possible. The left bar tells me sth
> > about a table to the right. Unfortunately there is no table to the 
right -
> > there is no problem, when start with an empty setup.
> 
> that's another bug (but that one I already knew) and it's fixed too in 
the 
> RPMs above.
Thank you.

> 
> > Is there a way to tell yast to create a xml file on installation time,
> > like kickstart?
> 
> I don't know kickstart but wouldn't that be the "reference profile" from 
the 
> autoyast UI?
That's right. Older RedHat installations (I think fedora still do) 
generated a kickstart
file after installation. The machine can then be cloned using this file 
easily.


thank you.
I'm going to try now..