Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (158 mails)

["Richard Hobbs" <richard.hobbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Ah... It's the partitioning!!

The Dell Servers ship with a 38MB utility partition and a 1.9GB FAT16
partition, and for some reason, AutoYast isn't wiping these partitions
first.

I thought the "<use>all</use>" section was the bit that said use the entire
disk?

Thanks,
Hobbs.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Gansert [mailto:ug@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 14 February 2006 10:55
> To: suse-autoinstall@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Simultaneous SuSE 10.0 
> Autoyast installs fail!
> 
> On Tuesday 14 February 2006 11:46, Richard Hobbs wrote:
> 
> > We have a total of 9 machines. On 7 of these machines, SuSE 
> 10.0 fails to
> > install using AutoYast. They all fail in the same way.
> >
> > In the middle of installing the package, and with 428 
> packages remaining,
> > it tries to install "emacs-21.3". It gets 56% of the way 
> through this
> > package, and then the machine hangs. On the other two servers, it
> > installs perfectly. All servers are exactly the same 
> hardware, apart from
> > one. Here is the list:
> 
> 2 Questions:
> 
> if you check the proposal dialog at the beginnig of the 
> installation (that's 
> where you can see the partitioning and so on), is autoyast doing the 
> correct partitioning there on the machines that fail?
> I'm asking that because it sounds a little bit like autoyast 
> has not created 
> a root partition on those machines and so the ramdisk is used 
> as root (you 
> might run out of memory then).
> 
> Can you do manual installations on the machines that fail 
> with autoyast?
> 
> -- 
> ciao, Uwe Gansert
> 
> Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team
> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany
> e-mail: uwe.gansert@xxxxxxx, Tel: +49-(0)911-74053-0,
> Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de      
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