Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (70 mails)

[Rich <rich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Laden wrote:
>  > Andrew Laden wrote:
> > > Heya all
> > >
> > > Since I cant seem to get the <location> option to work, and since in
> > i can get <location> working just fine, using 
> > http://<ip>/path it kinda "just worked" for me :)
>
> At least one other person responded that they didn't work. Maybe it is
> isolated to a particular network card or config? I don't know. These two
> errors lead me to think it's a network issue. (I did also try http, with
> the same lack of success.)
>
> 2006-12-12 14:54:10 <3> linux(3497) [bash]
> ShellCommand.cc(shellcommand):73 mount server reported tcp not
> available, falling back to udp
> 2006-12-12 14:54:10 <3> linux(3497) [bash]
> ShellCommand.cc(shellcommand):73 mount: RPC: Remote system error -
> Network is unreachable

hmm. what was the error in the http case ?
you could print out network information in init script (using <source>),
at least to see whether network card has the driver loaded and ip
address assigned.

are you using dhcp or static ip address ?

...
> > i have an init script which nicely downloads required files, 
> > and it works fine.
>
> Check the release notes for Changes between sles10 and sp1
> http://www.suse.com/~ug/autoyast_changes_SLES10SP1.html
> [bug] init-script does not require network now

hmm. does this mean my setup will break with sp1 ? :)
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 Rich
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