Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (56 mails)

[Kai Dusek <kai.dusek@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

We're trying to setup an SLES9 SP3 system on a z/VM guest with autoyast. 
We would like to pre-defined an autoinst.xml file.

It looks like the <dasd>...</dasd> section is mandatory since autoyast 
does not get the dasd hardware settings "on the fly". Unfortunately we 
don't know the mdisk id a priori, so that we currently are modifying the 
autoinst.xml file manually for every system with a different mdisk id.

Replacing the autoinst.xml file with a new one during the pre-installation 
step (as described in the SLES documentation) does not work since hardware 
detection is done before pre-installation. Simply omiting the 
<dasd>...</dasd> section did not work since yast stops working after 
hardware detection since it does not detect any disk to install the system 
on. I tried to add a dasd= (resp. DASD=) parameter to the parmfile but it 
doesn't help detecting the disks.

Does anybody know what we could do to omit that <dasd>...</dasd> section 
from the autoinst.xml file? Can we specify the mdisk id in that section 
with a placeholder? Or has it really to be hardcoded in the autoinst.xml 
file?

[...]
    <dasd>
      <devices config:type="list">
        <listentry>
          <channel_id>0.0.0150</channel_id>
          <diag config:type="boolean">false</diag>
          <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
        </listentry>
      </devices>
    </dasd>
[...]


Mit freundlichen Gruessen/Kind regards

          Kai Dusek