Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (50 mails)

[Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tompkins, Joel wrote:
>  
> Hi! I'm a newbie to this list. I am trying this list because I have
> received no response from Novell's own forum for installing SLES10.  I
> have a SLES9 server we use for Autoyast NFS network installs of SLES9
> servers. I am trying to set it up with a SLES10 build in the same
> manner. Everything looks good as far as copying files from the CD isos
> up to the installation source directory, and the directories look good
> and mount ok via NFS, but when I try to install via NFS using the boot
> from a SLES10 DVD, it reaches a point where it stops with a list of the
> packages we put in the XML profile and says it can't find the packages.
> After hitting enter, then it says it can't find the patterns. I can see
> the packages in Suse/i586 and the patterns files in Suse/setup/descr.
> Both of these places are pointed to in the content file. The path given
> for the installation source directory is correct. The install server
> syslog reports repeated authentication for mounts and unmounts for the
> nfs with no errors. Can someone help me with what I am missing here? Can
> it somehow be not finding the path or dropping the path? TIA!
>   
I apologize for not having the answer, but I'm curious - you bought SLES
but you don't have support from Novell? This seems like the sort of
question tailor made for a call to their support staff. The few times
I've picked up the phone to call them, they've been pretty helpful.

Joe

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