Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (62 mails)

[Adam Hawks <awhawks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If I remove the root image from my boot CD linuxrc does ask for CD #1 of 
SLES, but it then fails reading my profile's which are on my CD.
I got the SLES 9 kernel, initrd, root and my profiles to correctly boot 
and ask for the SLES 9 CD #1 using the /yast/order file.
But I had to put it in the top folder of the CD instead of the product 
directory where my contents file was located.
I'm mostly there on the SLES 9 portion of the CD.
Now just to get the SLES 10 kernel, initrd, root and my profiles to boot 
and ask for SLES 10 CD #1 (currently looking at add on product method).


Thanks

Adam W. Hawks
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Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@xxxxxxx> 
03/26/2008 06:56 AM

To
Adam Hawks/Charlotte/IBM@IBMUS
cc
opensuse-autoinstall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject
Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] Custom autoInstall boot CD for multiple 
distributions (SLES 9 & SLES10)






On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Adam Hawks wrote:

> I changed the boot CD to have a SLES 9 and a SLES 10 kernel and initrd.
> And since root is in different locations on SLES 9 vs SLES 10  then 
> linuxrc loads the corresponding install system.
> YaST is correctly starting with the install system for the correct SLES 
> and reads the profiles without failing.
>
> I STILL have the problem that my CD doesn't request the SLES 9 or SLES 
> 10's CD #1 when initializing the software catalogs.
>
> With SLES 8 you had the SLES 8 CD #1 and the United Linux CD #1 and you 
> could boot from either one to install depending on whether you wanted 
SLES 
> or United Linux.
> My situation is like the SLES 8 model where I have my RPM's that need to 

> be installed on top of SLES 9, SLES 10 during the install.
> The only difference is I need to support both SLES 9 and SLES 10 as the 
> base product. 
>
> So I guess my basic problem is two fold.
> 1) How do you correctly layout a CD distribution with multiple products 
> (mine on top of SLES 9 and mine on top of  SLES 10)?
> 2) How do you create a boot CD that is an add-on to the existing SLES 
CD's 
> without remastering CD #1 of SLES?

Hm, I can't comment on the required layout for add-on CDs but if you 
remove the 'root' images from your CD, linuxrc assumes you have a special 
boot CD and will ask for CD1. Maybe that helps.


Steffen
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