Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (47 mails)

[Ivan De Masi <it-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Uwe,

Uwe Gansert schrieb:
> On Wednesday 15 April 2009 17:25:33 Ivan De Masi wrote:
>
> > I created a basic xml-file for installing opensuse 11.1 and I'm
> > installing from DVD.
> >
> > My add-on section (at the top of the xml file!?) looks like this:
> >
> > <add-on>
> >     <add_on_products config:type="list">
> >       <listentry>
> >         <media_url>http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1</media_url>
> >         <product></product>
> >         <product_dir></product_dir>
> >       </listentry>
> >       <listentry>
> >
> > Right at the beginning I get error messages that the repositorys can't
> > be added.
>
> autoyast tries to add those repositories before it starts to feed the package 
> resolver. That makes sense, since some packages might be only available via 
> add-on.
> If you do a DVD installation without network, then you should not add add-ons 
> that require a network connection. You should add them then via script at the 
> end of the installation ("zypper sa ..." or so).

That's strange, because I tell autoyast to fetch it's autoyast.xml from
a (internal) webserver and it works (only when I say vnc=1, but this is
another point...).
So a basic network connection is availabel, but I didn't set a gateway -
maybe that's the point?!

> > The y2log at this time says something like "can't resolve
> > download.opensuse.org".
>
> right. You have no network - adding the add-on fails then
>
> > Is the add-on definition too early in this file (I didn't touch the
> > sequence created by autoyast UI) so that it is a problem with dns?
>
> the order of the sections in the XML file is not important for autoyast. A 
> section on top or at the end of the profile is the same for autoyast.

OK.

> > Subsequent the
> >
> > <do_online_update config:type="boolean">true</do_online_update> command
> >
> > is ignored (I put this line at the end of the <software> section).
>
> there is a bug in the online_update client :(

Hmm.


> > Also
> >
> > <suse_register>
> >     <do_registration config:type="boolean">true</do_registration>
> >     <register_regularly config:type="boolean">true</register_regularly>
> >     <submit_hwdata config:type="boolean">true</submit_hwdata>
> >     <submit_optional config:type="boolean">false</submit_optional>
> > </suse_register>
> >
> > is not processed.
>
> do you have a /root/.suse_register.log?

Im not sure, I'll check it.

> Maybe there is something in there what went wrong.
> You dont see an online update source with "zypper ls"?

I'll check this too an report.

Thanks!

Rgeards,
Ivan


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