January 2012 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

linuxrc - netdevice=<hwaddress>
by John Willis 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Does anyone know if any of the SLES releases 9 or 10 support passing the linuxrc option netdevice=<hardware mac address> ? I noticed Red Hat has had this for sometime and it seems totally missing in SuSE which seems really odd. I'm still scratching my head if we really are still passing only by kernel interface name. I read in the change log for linuxrc-1.8.6-3 a change that "sounds" like this feature. * Mon Mar 14 2005 - snwint(a)suse.de - s390: fix segfault in net_list_s390_devs() - extra root image was sometimes not used - allow netdevices to be specified by hwaddress But it looks like linuxrc-1.8.6-3 is only available in SuSE Professional 9.3. "any" commentary would be sincerely appreciated the feature also seems to be fairly minor since any delimiter seperating the octets in the hwaddr string could be used to identify the difference between an interface name and interface hw address if i could figure out a generic method of overriding the linuxrc with a custom script and daisy chain it back into linuxrc after setting up the interface name, I would.. and have a slight idea on how to do that.. but i'd rather find out i'm just missing something and the feature is already there Thanks!

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[opensuse-autoinstall] autoyast with multiple LVM Volume Groups
by big beer 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

Hello, I'm trying to have autoyast setup some LVM volume groups. I can get things setup with a single volume group, but if try to add 2 volume groups I seem to be running into some issue. I'm using the following xml inside the partitioning section to setup the PVs and add to the volume groups. . . . <drive> <device>/dev/sdb</device> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <lvm_group>firstvg</lvm_group> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>max</size> </partition> </partitions> <use>all</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/sdc</device> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <lvm_group>secondvg</lvm_group> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>max</size> </partition> </partitions> <use>all</use> </drive> . . . The problem is that both disks are configured as PVs in the same VG. Both sdb and sdc will be added to firstvg and secondvg will not exist. Am I trying this wrong or am I hitting some sort of bug? thanks -- bigbeer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] 12.1, autoyast and systemd
by 686f6c6d 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Hi, here's the problems I ran into. They all seem to be related to systemd, but I did not want to hijack the other thread, although this one might solve the other problem, too. 1. The final kexec/reboot is not executed. Both <final_reboot config:type="boolean">false</final_reboot>, meaning kexec will be used, and <final_reboot config:type="boolean">true</final_reboot> have no effect at all[0]. This also means that... 2. Init-Services (<runlevel>) defined in autoyast are not started/stopped, so, f.e., no ssh keys are generated. (This also results in a lot of subsequent errors in our setup.) To fix this, just include: <software> <remove-packages config:type="list"> <package>systemd-sysvinit</package> </remove-packages> </software> This way, sysvinit-init will be installed and used. When can we expect autoyast to support systemd? [0]: Once you do a manual reboot (if you happen to have access other than ssh to the machine), the machine will do the autoyast kexec/reboot after that. -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen Christopher 'm4z' Holm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] Setting up printers with autoyast
by Patrick Begou 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

I'm a new to autoyast (2 weeks). I've setup an install procedure for my hosts but I still fail to setup properly the printer. I have a "lpadmin" and a "lpoptions" commands working when run as root after the final reboot. I've setup a post-scripts to do this automaticaly but it always fail with: "lpadmin: Unable to connect to server: Connection refused" Even if my post-script requires network and start cupsd. <post-scripts config:type="list"> <script> <debug config:type="boolean">true</debug> <filename>imprimantes</filename> <network_needed config:type="boolean">true</network_needed> <notification>Please wait while setting up printers ...</notification> <interpreter>shell</interpreter> <source><![CDATA[ #!/bin/sh service cups start lpadmin -p laser5M -m manufacturer-PPDs/hplip/hp-laserjet_4050_series-ps.ppd.gz -u allow:all -L "Salle A116" -v socket://batA1-most1.hmg.inpg.fr.:9100 -E lpoptions -d laser5M -o PageSize=A4 -o HPOption_Duplexer=True -o InstalledMemory=36MB -o HPOption_Tray3=True -o HPOption_Disk=HardDisk -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble ]]> </source> </script> </post-scripts> Any suggestion is welcome. Patrick -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner(a)opensuse.org

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