Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (50 mails)

[MAR <michelandre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Markus!

1)- add the following in the <general> section (see below)
2)- comment out
    <!--      <hostname>here-is-the-hostame</hostname> -->
    in the <dns> sub-section of the <networking> section
3)- adjust, like below, the <interfaces> sub-section of the <networking> 
section

The autoinstallation will stop in the beginning, display a small windows 
asking you the hostname, then ask you the IP and MASK for both NIC (if 
you have 2 NICs, else take take out the <ask> for the second one). It 
will then continue the autoinstallation.

*This way you can use the same autoinst.xml for both members of the cluster.
*
For more details see: autoyast_full-doc.pdf at 
http://www.suse.de/~ug/autoyast_doc/CreateProfile.Ask.html

Hoping I understood your question and that it will help you:

Michel-André
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<!-- HOSTNAME AND IP ADDRESSES IN THE GENERAL SECTION -->

   <general>
       <ask-list config:type="list">
           <ask>
               <title>HOST NAME</title>
               <path>networking,dns,hostname</path>
               <question>Enter Hostname</question>
               <stage>initial</stage>
               <default>h22min15</default>
               <help>Enter the name of this server. The name this host 
will be known as.</help>
           </ask>

           <ask>
               <title>IP address of eth0</title>
               <path>networking,interfaces,0,ipaddr</path>
               <question>Enter IP Address of eth0 i.e First Network 
Interface Card</question>
               <stage>initial</stage>
               <default>192.168.1.202</default>
               <help>Enter the IP address of the first NIC.</help>
           </ask>

           <ask>
                <title>MASK of eth0 (EN)</title>
               <path>networking,interfaces,0,netmask</path>
               <question>Enter the MASK of eth0 i.e First Network 
Interface Card</question>
               <stage>initial</stage>
               <default>255.255.255.0</default>
               <help>Enter the mask of the first NIC.</help>
           </ask>

           <ask>
               <title>IP address of eth1</title>
               <path>networking,interfaces,1,ipaddr</path>
               <question>Enter IP Address of eth1 i.e Second Network 
Interface Card</question>
               <stage>initial</stage>
               <default>10.0.0.2</default>
               <help>Enter the IP address of the second NIC.</help>
           </ask>

           <ask>
               <title>MASK of eth1</title>
               <path>networking,interfaces,1,netmask</path>
               <question>Enter the MASK of eth1 i.e Second Network 
Interface Card</question>
               <stage>initial</stage>
               <default>255.255.255.0</default>
               <help>Enter the mask of the second NIC.</help>
           </ask>

       </ask-list>
<!--
...
...
-->
   </general>
<!--
...
...
-->


<!-- ************************************************************-->

<!-- NETWORKING SECTION -->

   <networking>
       <interfaces config:type="list">
           <interface>
               <bootproto>static</bootproto>
               <device>eth0</device>
               <startmode>auto</startmode>
               <usercontrol>no</usercontrol>
           </interface>
           <interface>
               <bootproto>static</bootproto>
               <device>eth1</device>
               <startmode>auto</startmode>
               <usercontrol>no</usercontrol>
           </interface>
       </interfaces>

<!--
...
...
   <dns>
     <dhcp_hostname config:type="boolean">false</dhcp_hostname>
     <dhcp_resolv config:type="boolean">true</dhcp_resolv>
     <domain>micronator.org</domain>
<!-- COMMENT THE FOLLOWING LINE -->
<!--      <hostname>here-is-the-hostame</hostname> -->
     <nameservers config:type="list">
       <nameserver>192.168.1.1</nameserver>
     </nameservers>
     <searchlist config:type="list">
       <search>micronator.org</search>
     </searchlist>
   </dns>
...
...
-->

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Markus Baertschi a écrit :
> I'm working on the installation for a new linux cluster. All nodes are
> identical except for hostname and IP.
>
> Today some scripts generate an individual autoinst.xml and pxe config
> file pointing to the autoinst.xml for each node. These files are the
> same except for the (static) hostname and IP address. We want to keep
> static addresses.
>
> I can reduce the 2 config files per node to two single files if I have
> a simple way to assign  the correct hostname and static IP address
> during installation. We have dhcp set up to assign a fixed IP for each
> node.
>
> It looks like during post-install I can access the IP address in the
> hostname. (the hostname command returns the ip address). I suppose I
> can set the ip address using yast command line tools (yast lan edit
> id=0 ip=myip), but there seems to be no way to set the hostname using
> the command line. Can I just write the hostname into /etc/HOSTNAME ?
>
> Is there a good reason I should remain with the individual pxe and
> autoinstall.xml files per node ?
>
> Markus
>   
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