Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (36 mails)

[Dan Stromberg <dstromberglists@xxxxxxxxx>]

When I try to autoyast a system with openSUSE 10.3 from an openSUSE 10.2
install server, using an old kernel that was for openSUSE 10.2, it's not
automatic. Instead, I get a menu system, and the menu system doesn't
install - it just says "Loading installation system" and then goes right
back to the earlier menu.

If I alt-F3, I see:
Loading image
"ftp10-2/openSUSE-10.3-community-edition/CD1//boot/x86_64/root"...
/download/image0: unknown fs type
mount: /download/image0: No such file or directory


So looking at the 10.2 install server, and comparing the
CD1/boot/x86_64/root files for 10.2 and 10.3, I see the following
difference:

# file ~ftp/ftp10-2/ftp10-2/CD1/boot/x86_64/root
/srv/ftp/ftp10-2/ftp10-2/CD1/boot/x86_64/root: Linux Compressed ROM File System data, little endian size 74162176 version #2 sorted_dirs CRC 0xaeeee8a4, edition 0, 44848 blocks, 7088 files
suse-boot-install-root:/srv/ftp/ftp10-2/openSUSE-10.3-community-edition/CD1/boot/x86_64 x86_64-suse-linux 30908 - above cmd done 2007 Fri Oct 05 05:12 PM

# file ~ftp/ftp10-2/openSUSE-10.3-community-edition/CD1/boot/x86_64/root
/srv/ftp/ftp10-2/openSUSE-10.3-community-edition/CD1/boot/x86_64/root: Squashfs filesystem, little endian, version 3.0, 0 bytes, 7942 inodes, blocksize: 65536 bytes, created: Wed Sep 26 13:20:07 2007
suse-boot-install-root:/srv/ftp/ftp10-2/openSUSE-10.3-community-edition/CD1/boot/x86_64 x86_64-suse-linux 30908 - above cmd done 2007 Fri Oct 05 05:13 PM


It appears that the "root" filesystem format has changed in 10.3, and the
install environment of 10.2 doesn't support that new fiklesystem format.

If I set up a system with squashfs, can I just convert root to ext2 or
somethiung to get this 10.2 install server and kernel to install 10.3
systems - and if that works, will there likely be other issues waiting to
be discovered? Or do we need to upgrade our install server?

Or could I just upgrade the kernel that's used for the install to
something from 10.3, including a squashfs?  I tried building my own
kernel with squashfs in it, but that's giving me "invalid module format"
on some insmod's.

Thanks!


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