Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (59 mails)

[<chrroe@xxxxxx>]

Here is a little round-up about my issues:

Problem Nr. 1:
aaa_base-9-29.46.i586.rpm produces a 2595 bytes log /etc/sysconfig/kernel file 
with nothing but null-
bytes in it.

Solution for Nr.1:
In our PXE-Environment we are using for the "kernel" and "initrd" files that 
ones from SLES9 without any 
SP. During an AutoYast installation "SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 
installation program v1.6.36" is 
displayed.

I made some tests with the versions from the SLES9 SP3 CDs. There it says 
"v1.6.53", and works like a 
charm: Even when no hostname is provided in my eth_default_dhcp.xml the file 
/etc/sysconfig/kernel gets 
created with almost perfect content (BusLogic apperas twice in INITRD_MODULES=).
Hopefully merely copying the correct file in our production-systems is enough 
in order to get a neat 
environment.




Problem Nr.2:
After installation of postfix-2.1.1-1.17.i586.rpm with AutoYast the file 
/etc/postfix/main.cf contains a 
line with myhostname = .testdomain.com instead of myhostname = 
testhost.testdomain.com.
With this mistake postfix is unstartable.

Workaround for Nr.2:
Either call SuSEconfig.postfix when hostname is available.

  or

call "postconf myhostname=`hostname -f`" when hostname is available.

(I tend to the second one, perhaps in a kind of post-postinstallation script)


Using dhcpcd (like Stefan suggested) I made the following experiences:
During first AutoYast stage it is possible to call the following in the alt+F2 
shell:

/ # hostname
linux
/ # /lbin/dhcpcd -k
/ # /lbin/dhcpcd -D
/ # hostname
testhost

But with the solution for Nr.1 this seems to be not neccesary anymore.

During the second AutoYast stage you can use similar commands.
But then errors are thrown:

linux:/ # hostname
linux
linux:/ # dhcpdcd -k
****  dhcpcd: not running
linux:/ # dhcpcd -D
linux:/ # ERROR: Interface eth0 is not configured for dhcp. So don't use '-o 
dhcp'.
linux:/ # hostname
linux

Later, when the second stage has finished and the installed system is 
completing the boot process, 
recieving the IP address fails at all:

   eth0     (DHCP) . . . . . no IP address yet... backgrounding
   eth0                            interface could not be set up

When I don't use any commands in the 2nd stage, booting works correctly!

Well, as a conclusion I think I found acceptable work-arounds, but this makes 
me not 100% happy. 
Nevertheless I learned some new things about (SUSE) Linux while my 
investigations ;-). Thanks for your 
participation.

Bye
Christoph
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