Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (86 mails)

[Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@xxxxxxx>]

Sorry for the late reply, I'm just back from vacation.

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Bernhard Duebi wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:17, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Bernhard Duebi wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello everybody,
> > > 
> > > I try to create a custom CD for SLES9 x86_64.
> > > With Yast CD Creator I setup the hierarchy needed to install Linux. Then
> > > I put Enterprise Agents into a separate directory. These get installed
> > > by the postinstall script. Then I compiled everything with mkisofs.
> > > I can boot from the CD, there's a popup complaining that I try to
> > > install 32bit software on a 64bit hardware.
> > > In the Yast log file I can see that yast is doing some magic to avoid
> > > this messages. Is somebody willing to share this magic with me ?
> > 
> > http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-autoinstall/2005-Apr/0029.html
> 
> sounds great, does it mean that I can create a CD which contains both
> archs and the installer decides which packages to install ?

Yes. But only with SL >= 9.2 (not SLES9).

> If yes, is there a howto somewhere ?

Not that I'm aware of. But on our 'normal' DVD it works this way: the
bootloader appends '64' to the kernel and initrd names on 64-bit machines
(if bit 4 is set in 'notice' in isolinux.cfg). You must ensure that initrd64
points to a 64-bit installation system (linuxrc.config has an entry in our
initrd64 setting it to 'root64').

I think that's about all the black magic.


Steffen