Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (52 mails)

["Mike Diehn" <Mike.Diehn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dual NICs?   We have about thirty systems (all same model) that routinely 
switch their NIC numbering during that first reboot - NIC1 becomes NIC2, 2 
becomes 1.  I now cabel both NICs and enable PXE in the BIOS for both.  Weird, 
eh?

Mike Diehn
Sr. SysAdmin
mike.diehn@xxxxxxxxx
+1-603-727-5492 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre Girard [mailto:pierre.girard@xxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 10:12 AM
> To: opensuse-autoinstall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [opensuse-autoinstall] TR: opensuse 11 autoyast no 
> IP address after reboot (and other autoyast questions)
>
> Hello,
>                 We have an autoyast file we created and when 
> we boot with
> the DVD and type in the appropriate NFS paths to it and the 
> installation
> source (NFS as well) the system installs and then reboots 
> before doing some
> other tasks. However after that reboot the machine doesn't 
> get an IP address
> and we have to stop installation there.
>
> We know the dhcp server is working, otherwise it wouldn't 
> proceed to install
> in the first place. At first our autoyast didn't have a 
> network configured
> but even after we added one it does the same.
>
> Any hints on what could be wrong?
>
> We're also having problem with the NIS authentication and 
> root password.
> After starting the autoyast we make it stop at the 
> configuration screen and
> it shows that root password isn't set and the authentication 
> doesn't seem to
> be NIS. We configured those with yast but it just doesn't 
> seem to be used.
>
> I read that in opensuse 10.3 we could make a manual 
> installation and ask it
> to create an autoyast file, is it still possible to do that 
> with opensuse
> 11? I didn't find the option anywhere and most searches I do 
> return results
> for 10.3.
>
> Should i include the autoyast configuration file in here? I 
> tried in my
> previous message but it got rejected.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
>
>
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