Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (70 mails)

["Lonni J Friedman" <netllama@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/7/06, Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/7/06, Uwe Gansert <ug@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 19:20, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > > I have to ask.  Why is autoyast
> > > being reinvented from scratch with every single release?  Every single
> > > release has non-trivial changes which lead to non-ending pain &
> >
> > Since 10.0 (and that was the release I took over autoyast) there was just
> > one incompatibility (selections -> patterns).
> > Everything else should be still compatible. The change from DTD to RNG is no
> > icompatibility. It does not matter for your profile if RNG files are used
> > or DTD files are used to check the syntax.
> >
> > > suffering.  Is it too much to expect that a working autoyast.xml from
> > > one release continue to work, or at least not fail fatally, in the
> > > next release?
> >
> > no, it's not.
> > If you detect such an incompatibility that is not documented by me, feel
> > free to open a bugreport or ask here on the list.
> > I don't know a lot about autoyast in the pre 10.0 time but I try to keep
> > compatibility as high as possible.
> > I'm sorry if you had compatibility issues in the past but for the future,
> > let me know if you have such problems. And let me know as soon as you
> > discover such a problem please.
>
> I just went to setup 10.2 using the autoyast file that works for
> SLED10, and it blew up with bad/invalid patterns.  Amongst other
> things, basis-devel seems to have been renamed devel_basis, and
> kernel-devel was renamed devel_kernel.
>
> This is the stuff i'm referring to.  I shouldn't have to update the
> pattern names every time there's a new release.

Sadly, there are more problems.  After fixing my autoyast.xml file,
now the installation bombs out much earlier (which admittedly suggests
that I did something wrong).  Now I just got prompted to "Make sure
that CD number 1i s in your drive".  On Alt-F3, I see a bunch of
modules getting insmodded, and then:
Looking for a openSUSE CD...
disk: trying to mount /dev/hda
disk: /dev/hda: not a openSUSE install medium
Automatic setup not possible

I've got an info and autoyast.xml files inside the initrd.  Thinking
perhaps that support had changed such that yast now assumes that the
install 'media' is always going to be in the same place as the
autoyast.xml file, I tried putting the autoyast.xml file on the web
server where the SuSE-10.2 installation tree is located.  I added
autoyast=http:/server/path/to/autoyast.xml to the append line on my
pxeboot server, and now I get a completely different failure.  The
installer attempts to get a dhcp lease, and fails nearly
instantaneously (it waits perhaps 2 seconds at most):
Looking for anetwork server...
Trying to activate eth0
Setting up localhost..done
Sending DHCP request to eth0... no/incomplete answer.
Automatic setup not possible

At which point I get dumped to the manual installation dialogue, where
I have no problems getting a dhcp lease and performing the
installation over the network without any problems.

Something is broken somewhere.  It might be user error, but the fact
that just dropping in an autoyast.xml from an older version doesn't
work seems like a pretty huge regression.


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