Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (47 mails)

["Hougaard" <flhou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

.. another dumb question... when I've made my autoyast file I used a
VMWare machine - and the final result is to be used on both physical
hardware and virtual machines - will the section below mess up my day,
and make a bootloader that be kind of messy on physical hardware???

<bootloader>
    <device_map config:type="list">
      <device_map_entry>
        <firmware>fd0</firmware>
        <linux>/dev/fd0</linux>
      </device_map_entry>
      <device_map_entry>
        <firmware>hd0</firmware>
        <linux>/dev/sda</linux>
      </device_map_entry>
    </device_map>
    <global>
      <activate>true</activate>
      <boot_boot>true</boot_boot>
      <default>SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1</default>
      <gfxmenu>/boot/message</gfxmenu>
      <lines_cache_id>3</lines_cache_id>
      <timeout config:type="integer">8</timeout>
    </global>
    <initrd_modules config:type="list">
      <initrd_module>
        <module>piix</module>
      </initrd_module>
      <initrd_module>
        <module>mptspi</module>
      </initrd_module>
      <initrd_module>
        <module>ide-generic</module>
      </initrd_module>
      <initrd_module>
        <module>processor</module>
      </initrd_module>
      <initrd_module>
        <module>thermal</module>
      </initrd_module>
      <initrd_module>
        <module>fan</module>
      </initrd_module>
      <initrd_module>
        <module>jbd</module>
      </initrd_module>
      <initrd_module>
        <module>ext3</module>
      </initrd_module>
      <initrd_module>
        <module>dm_mod</module>
      </initrd_module>
      <initrd_module>
        <module>edd</module>
      </initrd_module>
    </initrd_modules>
    <loader_type>grub</loader_type>
    <sections config:type="list">
      <section>
        <append>resume=/dev/system/swap splash=silent
showopts</append>
        <image>/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.46-0.12-default</image>
        <initial>1</initial>
        <initrd>/boot/initrd-2.6.16.46-0.12-default</initrd>
        <kernel>/boot/vmlinuz</kernel>
        <lines_cache_id>0</lines_cache_id>
        <name>SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1</name>
        <original_name>linux</original_name>
        <root>/dev/system/system</root>
        <type>image</type>
      </section>
      <section>
        <blockoffset>1</blockoffset>
        <chainloader>/dev/fd0</chainloader>
        <lines_cache_id>1</lines_cache_id>
        <name>Floppy</name>
        <noverifyroot>true</noverifyroot>
        <original_name>floppy</original_name>
        <type>other</type>
      </section>
      <section>
        <append>showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp
noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3</append>
        <image>/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.46-0.12-default</image>
        <initrd>/boot/initrd-2.6.16.46-0.12-default</initrd>
        <kernel>/boot/vmlinuz</kernel>
        <lines_cache_id>2</lines_cache_id>
        <name>Failsafe -- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1</name>
        <original_name>failsafe</original_name>
        <root>/dev/system/system</root>
        <type>image</type>
      </section>
    </sections>
  </bootloader>

> > > Uwe Gansert <ug@xxxxxxx> 19. november 2007 16:48:41 >>>
On Montag, 19. November 2007, Hougaard wrote:

>   - if I use the "<file>/tmp/answer_hostname</file>", what is the
format
> of the answer file?? just an empty text file with the answer or?

it's a textfile with only the string of the answer. In case of a
boolean 
it's "true" or "false" (without quotes), in case of textentries it's
the 
exact string that was entered by the user.

>   - what about the value to be exchanged? should it be empty, or will
any
> predefined value be exchanged with the one asked for?

does not matter. Empty or not, it will be replaced.

>   - Will it be possible to answer serveral "paths" with the same
> question?? eg. below

unfortunately not. That's a design bug I did there. I'll fix that in
the 
future somehow without breaking compatibilty

>       <ask>
>      <path>arkmanager,dbpassword</path>
>      <path>ca_mgm,password</path>
>      <question>Type Password</question>
>      <stage>initial</stage>
>      <default>Type in your password here</default>
>      </ask>
>
>       or is there, a more clever solution to such a question?

with 10.3 you could change the profile via script but with OES2 there
is no 
really clever solution other than write a script and do the changes to
the 
system by yourself with it.

>   - How about the password... is it possible to get this read from
an
> clear text string? (I'm installing OES2, and there are several
passwords
> and some are written in clear text, and some ain't)

if you need the password in an encrypted way, then you have to <ask>
the 
user to enter it encrypted (*haha* - good one) or you encrypt it via
script 
and write it to the correct position in the system.

-- 
ciao, Uwe Gansert

Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
Business: http://www.suse.de/~ug 
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