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[opensuse-autoinstall] Problem using autoinstall since OpenSuSE 10.3
- From: Rainer Krienke <krienke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:12:59 +0200
- Message-id: <200806201313.03077.krienke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hello,
I am using autoyast to setup out linux installations of suse11.0, suse10.3 as
well as SELS10. Because we have to install all of these systems there is an
autoyast.xml file for each of the linux systems to be installed. The
installation source are all in out local network, so I simply take the
correct installation CD and then start the installation. To ease this process
I set up a SLP server that offeres me the choice which linux system (10.3,
11.0, ..) I want to install and selects the correct installation source as
well as the correct autoyast file via http:// URLs for each of both.
Up to suse10.3 this used to work fine and was a comfortable solution to get
different systems installed easily. However since 10.3 and unfortunately
still in 11.0 there is a problem with SLP when I want to specify both an
installtion source as well as an autoyast file URL. Please see my bug report
here:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332064.
The bug has not been fixed and I am looking for a better way to get things
done. The problem is that the installation system cannot evaluate the data
provided by the SLP server if there are two parameters provided by SLP
(installation source as well as autoyastfile URL) instead of only the
installation media URL.
So my problem is how can I mostly automatically start an autoyast installation
with the autoyast file reachable via http: when using SLP?
A very basic (non SLP) solution is to boot from CD and manually provide the
installtion media URL (install=) as well as the autoyast URL (autoyast=) on
the commandline, but this is of course very uncomfortable and error prone
because you have to type long URL strings. Is there a better way or is the
only way to fix the bug mentioned above.
Thanks
Rainer
--
Rainer Krienke, Uni Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, A22, Universitaetsstrasse 1
56070 Koblenz, http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke, Tel: +49261287 1312
PGP: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html,Fax: +49261287 1001312
I am using autoyast to setup out linux installations of suse11.0, suse10.3 as
well as SELS10. Because we have to install all of these systems there is an
autoyast.xml file for each of the linux systems to be installed. The
installation source are all in out local network, so I simply take the
correct installation CD and then start the installation. To ease this process
I set up a SLP server that offeres me the choice which linux system (10.3,
11.0, ..) I want to install and selects the correct installation source as
well as the correct autoyast file via http:// URLs for each of both.
Up to suse10.3 this used to work fine and was a comfortable solution to get
different systems installed easily. However since 10.3 and unfortunately
still in 11.0 there is a problem with SLP when I want to specify both an
installtion source as well as an autoyast file URL. Please see my bug report
here:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332064.
The bug has not been fixed and I am looking for a better way to get things
done. The problem is that the installation system cannot evaluate the data
provided by the SLP server if there are two parameters provided by SLP
(installation source as well as autoyastfile URL) instead of only the
installation media URL.
So my problem is how can I mostly automatically start an autoyast installation
with the autoyast file reachable via http: when using SLP?
A very basic (non SLP) solution is to boot from CD and manually provide the
installtion media URL (install=) as well as the autoyast URL (autoyast=) on
the commandline, but this is of course very uncomfortable and error prone
because you have to type long URL strings. Is there a better way or is the
only way to fix the bug mentioned above.
Thanks
Rainer
--
Rainer Krienke, Uni Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, A22, Universitaetsstrasse 1
56070 Koblenz, http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke, Tel: +49261287 1312
PGP: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html,Fax: +49261287 1001312
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