Here are the 3 questions they have (for sles10 version):
1) After yast completes installation (i.e., post- install), the fstab is created.
the fstab is created immediately after the (/) partition is formated and mounted and before the first RPM gets installed and not during post- install. Post- install would be too late (a lot too late actually because post- install in autoyast terms means after the first reboot).
OK, so the scenario is the user has selected his software pkgs and tells yast "make it so". Yast formats the target partition, creates the File system and creates the /etc/fstab? Is this correct?
What yast module makes this call?
libstorage as part of yast2- storage is doing that Thomas Fehr can tell you more about that
Cool.
2) How does yast determine what the source partition to mount is?
I dont understand the question What is the "source partition"?
The source partition (or the source of the installation maybe a better term) in this case is the partition that contains the distribution.
3) bootloader_finish.ycp breaks the install at the end.
in which way? Logs? Error message?
I looked at the bootloader code a couple of weeks ago. I'm not a yast expert, but I think yast wants to install the mbr and stuff like that to get the machine ready to boot without CD assistance.
They got the install to work by commenting out everything in bootload_finish.ycp. What does this file do?
Stefan Fent and Olaf Dabrunz can tell you more.
OK. BTW, you guys have to see this thing run. While sles9 is runnning, the system upgrades itself to sles10. Of course you need a partition that's not being used for it to work. ---- Roberto Angelino Dedicated Partner Engineer (310) 529-3527 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org