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Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] Re: [suse-autoinstall] SuSE 10.2 problems
  • From: Uwe Gansert <ug@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 09:13:19 +0100
  • Message-id: <200612080913.20010.ug@xxxxxxx>
On Friday 08 December 2006 00:18, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

> 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".

okay but then autoyast did not even start. The installation fails before one
line of autoyast code has been executed now.

> I've got an info and autoyast.xml files inside the initrd.

did you change any ownerships in the initrd? It's important that it all
still belongs to root.

> 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,

that's not the case

> 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

that's strange but of course not an autoyast failure.

> 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.

autoyast was not even able to read the profile. Autoyast was not executed.

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ciao, Uwe Gansert

Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany
Business: http://www.suse.de/~ug
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