Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (23 mails)

[Jim Michaud <jim.michaud@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the custom user scripts section of the Autoyast documentation, it
says that the pre-install scripts run "(Before partitioning and package
installation but after the hardware detection)"


However I believe for suse 10.3 this is incorrect. Can anyone confirm that?

I was having a problem with an 10.3 install that I traced back to be
with an incorrect MBR from a previous install, so I put the following
line in the pre-install script in order to wipe out the MBR.

test -b /dev/sda && dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1

I realize this also wipes out the partition table, but I was assuming
this was done before partitioning, so the install process would write
the new partition table.  But I get an error part way through the
install complaining the disk has no partitioning (which I did confirm).

So is this a difference in 10.3 or do I need some other syntax in the
autoyast xml file


---snippet from autoyast xml file ---

      <pre-scripts config:type="list">
        <script>
          <debug config:type="boolean">true</debug>
          <filename>pre-install.sh</filename>
          <interpreter>shell</interpreter>
          <location>http://10.0.0.20/sys/pre-install.sh</location>
        </script>
      </pre-scripts>

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Jim Michaud
SiCortex
IT Director
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