Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (102 mails)

[Lars Stavholm <stava@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Maarten Hilgenga wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> as a systemadministrator for a research group at a university,I'd like 
> to use autoyast to install version 9.3 on all the computers. While 
> trying my autoyast file on a test system, I get this error while 
> partitioning:
>
>
> "Error while configuring partitions. Try again."
>
> When I look at the partitioning after this, it looks like yast is 
> determining it's own partitioning scheme, since it partitions a swap 
> partition first and then a / partition.
>
> my configuration file looks like this (for partitioning):

It should look slightly different...

> <partitioning>
>       <drive>
>         <device>/dev/hda</device>
>         <partitions>

          <partitions config:type="list">

>           <partition>
>             <mount>/</mount>
>             <size>3gb</size>
>           </partition>
>           <partition>
>             <mount>swap</mount>
>             <size>auto</size>
>           </partition>
>         </partitions>
>         <use>all</use>
>       </drive>
>     </partitioning>

In order to catch these kind of errors early on,
you could use...

% xmllint --nooout --valid autoinst.xml

R
/LarS

> after checking y2log I found the following error:
>
> 2005-07-01 07:24:22 <3> linux(2771) [Interpreter] 
> clients/inst_autosetup.ycp:118 Can't convert value 
> '$["drive":$["device":"/dev/hda", 
> "partitions":$["partition":$["mount":"swap", "size":"auto"]], 
> "use":"all"]]' to type 'list'
> 2005-07-01 07:24:22 <3> linux(2771) [Interpreter] 
> clients/inst_autosetup.ycp:118 Parameter eval failed (/* any -> list 
> */Profile::Flat["partitioning"]:[])
> 2005-07-01 07:24:22 <1> linux(2771) [YCP] AutoinstStorage.ycp:300 Target 
> map: $["/dev/hda":$["bios_id":"0x80", "bus":"IDE", "cyl_count":13328, 
> "cyl_size":483328, "label":"msdos", "max_logical":63, "max_primary":4, 
> "model":"MPD3064AT", "name":"1. IDE,    5.9 GB, /dev/hda, 
> FUJITSU-MPD3064AT", "partitions":[], "scrpath":."hda", 
> "unique":"l_yX.aATOdNRb6qD"]]
> 2005-07-01 07:24:22 <1> linux(2771) [YCP] AutoinstStorage.ycp:306 disk 
> with bios_id 0x80: /dev/hda
> 2005-07-01 07:24:22 <1> linux(2771) [YCP] AutoinstStorage.ycp:311 mbr 
> disk: /dev/hda
> 2005-07-01 07:24:22 <1> linux(2771) [YCP] AutoinstStorage.ycp:164 
> processed autoyast partition plan: $[]
>
> TIA,
>
> Maarten Hilgenga