On Tuesday 29 August 2006 09:40, Peter Ludikovsky wrote:
While the used linuxrc.config & info files should tell AutoYaST to use a static IP address (using VMwares emulated AMD PCnet32 card) it always tries to fetch information from a DHCP server, which is not present, or skips this step all together without BOOTP fallback. This is a major problem since the autoinstall directives should be fetched by HTTP.
are we talking about SLES10? I just tried it in vmware and for me it works fine with hostip=1.2.3.4 netmask=255.255.0.0 insmod=pcnet32 autoyast=http://... install=cd no DHCP request is sent then. You can try to add netsetup=-dhcp but I did not need it
As soon as the installation proceeds past this it stops short at partitioning. I already tried using fresh disks (remember, still in VMware) and disks that had all required partitions written but to no avail. Is this a general problem with VMware or did I find a glitch?
your partitioning is very complex. I suggest you to start with sda only and then add drive by drive, partition by partition until it fails.
I would really like to be able to continue my test within VMware since I don't want to stress out the hardware now and have it break too soon.
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