Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (70 mails)

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

On 12/8/06, Uwe Gansert <ug@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

It does all belong to root.

> > 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.

Turns out it wasn't failing to get a DHCP lease, it got one just fine.
The error message was misleading and/or useless.  The problem was
that there's apparently no DNS resolution at this stage of the
installation (or any?), and I was specifying the hostname of the
server that hosted autoyast.xml & the install tree.  So when the
installer couldn't resolve the name of the server to an IP, it just
bombed out with that cryptic error message.  I should note that the
autoyast FAQ refers to autoyast=http://myserver/myconfig.xml which
leads one to believe that not using the IP address of the server in
the URL is acceptable.  Once I changed it to the IP, the installation
proceeded much further.

Now it gets all the way through installing all the packages (once I
updated all the pattern names *sigh*), and then fails at 'Install boot
manager' with the error:
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 3036: /etc/fstab: No such file or directory
No '/' mountpoint specififed in /etc/fstab

I've attached the autoyast.xml that I'm using.  I've uploaded the y2log here:
http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/y2log.bz2

thanks.


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L. Friedman                                    netllama@xxxxxxxxx
LlamaLand                       http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE profile SYSTEM "/usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/profile.dtd">
<profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns"; xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns";>
  <install>
    <general>
      <clock>
        <timezone>US/Pacific</timezone>
      </clock>
      <keyboard>
        <keymap>english-us</keymap>
      </keyboard>
      <language>en_US</language>
      <mouse>
        <id>20_imps2</id>
      </mouse>
      <mode>
        <confirm config:type="boolean">false</confirm>
        <forceboot config:type="boolean">false</forceboot>
        <reboot config:type="boolean">true</reboot>
      </mode>
      <signature-handling>
        <accept_unsigned_file config:type="boolean">true</accept_unsigned_file>
        <accept_file_without_checksum config:type="boolean">true</accept_file_without_checksum>
        <accept_verification_failed config:type="boolean">true</accept_verification_failed>
        <accept_unknown_gpg_key config:type="boolean">true</accept_unknown_gpg_key>
      </signature-handling>
    </general>
    <software>
      <patterns config:type="list">
        <pattern>devel_basis</pattern>
	<pattern>devel_kernel</pattern>
	<pattern>devel_rpm_build</pattern>
        <pattern>gnome</pattern>
	<pattern>gnome_xgl</pattern>
        <pattern>default</pattern>
        <pattern>kde</pattern>
	<pattern>lamp_server</pattern>
        <pattern>x11</pattern>
	<pattern>base-32bit</pattern>
      </patterns>
    </software>
    <partitioning config:type="list">
      <drive>
        <use>all</use>
        <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize>
        <partitions config:type="list">
          <partition>
            <mount>/boot</mount>
            <size>75mb</size>
            <filesystem  config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <mount>swap</mount>
            <size>1012mb</size>
            <filesystem  config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <mount>/</mount>
            <size>max</size>
            <filesystem  config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
          </partition>
        </partitions>
     </drive>
     </partitioning>
  </install>
  <configure>
   <users config:type="list">
      <user>
         <username>root</username>
         <user_password>oNFiRT6b3pTRA</user_password>
         <encrypted config:type="boolean">true</encrypted>
         <forename/>
         <surname/>
      </user>
    </users>
    <networking>
      <dns>
        <dhcp_hostname config:type="boolean">true</dhcp_hostname>
        <dhcp_resolv config:type="boolean">true</dhcp_resolv>
        <domain>local</domain>
        <hostname>linux</hostname>
      </dns>
      <interfaces config:type="list">
        <interface>
          <bootproto>dhcp</bootproto>
          <device>eth0</device>        
          <startmode>onboot</startmode>
        </interface>
      </interfaces>
    </networking>
    <scripts>
      <post-scripts config:type="list">
        <script>
          <filename>final</filename>
          <interpreter>perl</interpreter>
          <source>
          </source>
        </script>
        <script>
          <filename>final-user</filename>
          <interpreter>shell</interpreter>
          <source>
          </source>
        </script>
      </post-scripts>
    </scripts>
  </configure>
</profile>