Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (101 mails)

["jaiber john" <jaiber.john@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I'm working on a software that lets user install SLES9 and the drivers
required on a machine automatically. It does this by collecting essential
user inputs and creating the autoyast.xml. This xml file is copied to a
hard-disk location along with the vmlinux and initrd from CD1 to the
hard-disk which is then made bootable by installing LILO (with kernel and
initrd lines pointing to the files copied above). The linuxrc.config is
modified within the initrd to set installation source as CD, etc. The
following lines were added to linuxrc.config before re-creating the initrd:
-------------------------------------------------------
AutoYast: file:///autoyast.xml
Exec: modprobe ext3
InstMode: cd
-------------------------------------------------------
On re-boot from hard-disk, it'd request SLES9 CD1,2,3,... and the OS would
get installed. The drivers would get installed through post-install scripts.
This techinique worked well for SLES9 but not with SP2.

If I do the same with SP2 (i.e, copying the kernel, initrd from SP2 CD1 to
hard-disk), on reboot, it requests for core SLES9 CD1 and then on, only
SLES9 installation proceeds, the SP2 cds were not asked and hence they dont
get installed.

Are there any provision in linuxrc.config or info file to direct autoyast to
install SP2 and hence request specifically for SP2 CD1 on reboot?

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Thanks
<Jaiber John>