Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (87 mails)

["Ness, Todd" <todd.ness@xxxxxxx>]

Try putting an "info" file in your initrd on your custom disk. 

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From: Jorge Alvarado [mailto:jalvarado@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 7:44 AM
To: Rich; opensuse-autoinstall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [SPAM] - Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] invoking auto-install -
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Rich,  I will change the default to harddisk in the isolinux.cfg.
thanks.

When using the 1st suse install DVD/CD, the install works ok.  The
install server can be reached and the autoyat profile is read/parsed and
processed ok.

I want to kick off the install from the boot cd. 
I created this boot cd, using this iso:
SUSE-Linux-10.1-GM-x86_64-mini.iso.

But, I don't seem to have this boot cd correct, since it doesn't
recognize the install and autoyast
directives in the isolinux.cfg file. I would expect the install to
proceed without any manual
intervention.  Seems like I'm missing something here?

thanks,
Jorge

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich [mailto:rich@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:21 AM
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Jorge Alvarado wrote:
> I've got a bootable cd, whereby I've updated isolinux.cfg.  But the
suse installer seems
> to be going for a manual install.
> 
> The iso image was created via;
> mkisofs -r -T -J -pad -c boot/x86_64/loader/boot.cat -b
boot/x86_64/loader/isolinux.bin -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4
-boot-info-table -o ../suse10.iso .
> 
> The isolinux.cfg is as follows;
> isolinux.cfg:
> default autoyast

i'd suggest against this. there will be a reboot during installation 
(upto opensuse 10.2 after the first cd, from that at the end, if i am 
not mistaken) - and you'll land in an endless loop unless you manually 
choose hdd entry at the reboot.
also, could be nasty to leave this cd in the tray accidentally...

> display         boot.msg
> prompt          1
> timeout         15
> 
> # auto install
> label autoyast
>   kernel linux
>   append install=http://192.168.0.76/install/SE10-1
autoyast=http://192.168.0.76/autoy/SuSE10autoy.xml initrd=initrd
> 
> # hard disk
> label harddisk
>   kernel linux
>   append SLX=0x202 showopts
> 
> 
> The box will boot up, seems to establish dhcp ok.  But then the
linuxrc Main Menu pops up, with
> "Start Installation or System".  Looks like install and autoyast
directives were ignored.
> 
> When proceed thru a manual network install, after the "Enter the
directory on the server",
> the field is pre-populated with "/install/SE10-1", so looks like it
got it from the isolinux.cfg.
> But after this, get a 404 not found error.

well, check server logs to verify what is requested and not found;
how did you create the installation source ? is it correct ?
check that you can access autoinstall profile from the machine manually

> what am I missing? Any help appreciated?
> thanks.
-- 
  Rich
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