July 2002 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

yast2 update problem
by Thomas Hadig 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

Dear all, I am just trying ot update my old 7.1 system to 8.0. I bought the 7.1 DVD and am trying to upgrade via ftp/boot disk. I manage to get the update running and get all of my 620 or so packages updated. Then the system tried the first boot and I shortly see a screen with a few error messages (looks like missing shared libraries for/of qt or so) which is immediately followed with an error message that the upgrade failed. Does anyone know what this is about and/or how to fix it ? For information: I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop, for details see: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~hadig/projects/dell/dell.html By the way: I have another problem: After loading the PCMCIA modules, my floppy drive is dead which makes loading of the network drivers impossible. Solution to this is to NOT insert the modules3 disk when asked for but choose "Back" and then load the network modules by hand from disk modules3. Hope that helps. Ciao Thomas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Hadig MS 62, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park CA 94025, USA hadig(a)slac.stanford.edu Tel.: +1 650 926 2810 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~hadig/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates ? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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live eval 8.0 on a IBM 760xl..
by William F. Day 13 Jul '02

13 Jul '02

I am trying to get this to run on my wifes 760xl laptop. it doesnot suppert booting form the cdrom so I of course used rawrite to create a boot disk from bootdisk in the suse/disks/ directory when I restart laptop the suse logo comes up and I get: Could not fine ramdisk: initrd Pres a key to reboot. I found initrd on the live eval cd under suse/images/boot/, but am unsure on how to go about creating the bootdisk so I can boot the cdrom. If this works and she likes it I may be able to pull one more wincomp off my network. Any suggestions, pointers greatly appreciated and TIA, Bill Day Linux 2.2.20-1tr i586 1:10pm up 21:53, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.373 / Virus Database: 208 - Release Date: 7/1/02

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Some Question to Autoyast2
by Alexander.Gehrig＠RSD.rohde-schwarz.com 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

Hi All I have some questions to autoyast2, perhaps there is one on this list, who could help me. I want to install linux on several different systems. How could i solve the following problem: 1.) There a differnce between IDE and SCSI, ist it possible to have one controlfile, that handles both plattforms (fdsik, fromat, lilo, and so on)? 2.) There are also different NIC's on this system. I defined no module in the controlfile and it will work , but after installation every user will be ask to install an new NIC, thats allready installed <interfaces config:type="list" > <interface> <BOOTPROTO>dhcp</BOOTPROTO> <STARTMODE>onboot</STARTMODE> <UNIQUE></UNIQUE> <device>eth0</device> <module></module> <options></options> </interface> </interfaces> 3.) Is there a way to autoprobe the graphical interface ( hardewareinterface and resolution)? 4.) After installing by using autoyast2 i get the KDM-Login frist time, secondtime i get the consolen-Login 5.) When i try to install an extented package-list i allways get a failure about some packages, that was not found - Is there a solution for this Problem? <software> <addons config:type="list" /> <base>my-list</base> </software> the list 'my-list' is in the same directory as the default one 6.) Is there a way to include an automatic sound autoprobe by installing and only there is a problem the user could change it manually after installation? Thanks for help! bye Alexander Gehrig

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AW: [suse-autoinstall] Autoinstall, multiple NICs, DSL-Problem af ter YAST-Setup, SuSE 8.0... solved
by Beckmann, Sebastian 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

Hi again, I just discovered that there is a problem in the SuSE 8.0 network-/ dsl-setup which screws the order in which the networkdevices are initialized in the bootprocess. Good thing is that there is a patch which fixes this problem. http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/thallma_dsl_80.html Thanks to everyone for all the help and good advice Sebastian -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Sebastian.Beckmann(a)t-online.de [mailto:Sebastian.Beckmann@t-online.de] Gesendet: Freitag, 5. Juli 2002 13:57 An: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com Betreff: [suse-autoinstall] Autoinstall, multiple NICs, DSL-Problem after YAST-Setup, SuSE 8.0 Hi all, I want to install a DSL-Router with multiple NICs. The Softwareinsatllation via Autoyast works real nice. But now comes my problem: When I set up the DSL-configuration via YAST everything is working pretty fine at first, but after the next reboot neither DSL or the rest of my NICs are working proberly. It seems that the complete network-setup is messed up. I tried every ethernetcable on each NIC and discovered that the interfaces changed somehow. The routes are still ok but somehow all networkdevices switched place. Before reboot: eth0: 3com-card eth1: 3com card eth2: realtek card after reboot: eth0: realtek card (WHY?) eth1: 3com card eth2: 3com card I've noticed that after setting up a fresh system and running YAST, YAST does not recognise the allready working NICs and proposes to set them up again, this time as eth3 till eth5. Am I doing something wrong while installing the system via Autoyast? Here is my snippet from the autoinst.xml -----8<----- <interfaces config:type="list"> <interface> <BOOTPROTO>static</BOOTPROTO> <BROADCAST>192.168.1.255</BROADCAST> <IPADDR>192.168.1.10</IPADDR> <NETMASK>255.255.255.0</NETMASK> <NETWORK>192.168.1.0</NETWORK> <STARTMODE>onboot</STARTMODE> <UNIQUE/> <device>eth0</device> <module>3c59x</module> <options/> </interface> <interface> <BOOTPROTO>static</BOOTPROTO> <BROADCAST>192.168.2.255</BROADCAST> <IPADDR>192.168.2.10</IPADDR> <NETMASK>255.255.255.0</NETMASK> <NETWORK>192.168.2.0</NETWORK> <STARTMODE>onboot</STARTMODE> <UNIQUE/> <device>eth1</device> <module>3c59x</module> <options/> </interface> <interface> <BOOTPROTO>static</BOOTPROTO> <BROADCAST>192.168.3.255</BROADCAST> <IPADDR>192.168.3.10</IPADDR> <NETMASK>255.255.255.0</NETMASK> <NETWORK>192.168.3.0</NETWORK> <STARTMODE>onboot</STARTMODE> <UNIQUE/> <device>eth2</device> <module>8139too</module> <options/> </interface> </interfaces> -----8<----- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Sebastian Beckmann -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help(a)suse.com

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RE: SuSE mailinglist [suse-autoinstall] Autoinstall, multiple NICs.htm
by Simon Thornton 10 Jul '02

10 Jul '02

SuSE mailinglist: [suse-autoinstall] Autoinstall, multiple NICsHi Sebastien, > Before reboot: > eth0: 3com-card > eth1: 3com card > eth2: realtek card > after reboot: > eth0: realtek card (WHY?) > eth1: 3com card > eth2: 3com card The interfaces are defined based on the order in which the modules are loaded, if the realtek module is loaded before the 3com module, then you will get the affect you observed. During auto-install it probes for the cards in a certain order, this may not be reflected in the final config. I had ths problem and resolved it by settting the variable INITRD_MODULES in /etc/rc.config with the modules listed in the order I wanted them loaded. e.g.: INITRD_MODULES="pcnet32 eepro100" Then run 'mk_initrd' to generate the initial ramdisk containing these modules. Check that the /etc/lilo.conf (or whatever boot loader you use) loads the initrd generated above. e.g.: In /etc/lilo.conf, the entry would read: image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/xxx label = linux initrd=/boot/initrd After reboot, the modules are loaded in the order specified. This method makes sure that modules are loaded before the root partition boots. If you use LVM are as module and want to boot from an LVM partition then you also need to include 'lvm' in the INITRD_MODULES list. Rgds, Simon

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Re: Update break konqueror.
by Jussi Jaaskelainen 10 Jul '02

10 Jul '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 July 2002 15:10, Jussi Jaaskelainen wrote: > There was an error loading the module About-Page for Konqueror. > The diagnostics is: > /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeprint.so.4: undefined symbol: > addColumn__9KListViewRC7QStringi So there is nobody else who had same problems?!? ;-( - - -- Jussi Jääskeläinen, Audio Riders Oy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPSvFiiCdxta+jYblEQJrPwCfdqLdIahcL7sG3G44cBHDMtwO4sQAoO3r DBfUsIoX5mI5i2xnCFeAc8ws =DD+A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Autoinstall, multiple NICs, DSL-Problem after YAST-Setup, SuSE 8.0
by Sebastian.Beckmann＠t-online.de 10 Jul '02

10 Jul '02

Hi all, I want to install a DSL-Router with multiple NICs. The Softwareinsatllation via Autoyast works real nice. But now comes my problem: When I set up the DSL-configuration via YAST everything is working pretty fine at first, but after the next reboot neither DSL or the rest of my NICs are working proberly. It seems that the complete network-setup is messed up. I tried every ethernetcable on each NIC and discovered that the interfaces changed somehow. The routes are still ok but somehow all networkdevices switched place. Before reboot: eth0: 3com-card eth1: 3com card eth2: realtek card after reboot: eth0: realtek card (WHY?) eth1: 3com card eth2: 3com card I've noticed that after setting up a fresh system and running YAST, YAST does not recognise the allready working NICs and proposes to set them up again, this time as eth3 till eth5. Am I doing something wrong while installing the system via Autoyast? Here is my snippet from the autoinst.xml -----8<----- <interfaces config:type="list"> <interface> <BOOTPROTO>static</BOOTPROTO> <BROADCAST>192.168.1.255</BROADCAST> <IPADDR>192.168.1.10</IPADDR> <NETMASK>255.255.255.0</NETMASK> <NETWORK>192.168.1.0</NETWORK> <STARTMODE>onboot</STARTMODE> <UNIQUE/> <device>eth0</device> <module>3c59x</module> <options/> </interface> <interface> <BOOTPROTO>static</BOOTPROTO> <BROADCAST>192.168.2.255</BROADCAST> <IPADDR>192.168.2.10</IPADDR> <NETMASK>255.255.255.0</NETMASK> <NETWORK>192.168.2.0</NETWORK> <STARTMODE>onboot</STARTMODE> <UNIQUE/> <device>eth1</device> <module>3c59x</module> <options/> </interface> <interface> <BOOTPROTO>static</BOOTPROTO> <BROADCAST>192.168.3.255</BROADCAST> <IPADDR>192.168.3.10</IPADDR> <NETMASK>255.255.255.0</NETMASK> <NETWORK>192.168.3.0</NETWORK> <STARTMODE>onboot</STARTMODE> <UNIQUE/> <device>eth2</device> <module>8139too</module> <options/> </interface> </interfaces> -----8<----- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Sebastian Beckmann

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RE: [suse-autoinstall] YaST2 not starting from inst-sys
by ralonso＠lis.state.oh.us 10 Jul '02

10 Jul '02

It turns out the problem I was having had nothing to do with SCSI or RAID. What happened was that my partitioning scheme was something along the lines of this: sda5: 512M sda6: 512M swap sda7: 2048M sda8: max <--- here's the problem sda9: 2048M The way I was using 'max' was that it allots the remaining space to its partition after ALL other partitions have been accounted for. Apparently, what actually happens is that it allots the remaining space taking into account only those partitions that have already been defined. This means that if you specify a 'max' partition it must always be last. Because all the space had already been allotted, YaST complained that the partition table was invalid. I think it'd be beneficial to allow a 'max' partition to be anywhere in the partitioning order. I imagine it'd probably be pretty easy to implement in code. I'd do it myself but I haven't seen any source code for this project. Thanks, Robert > -----Original Message----- > From: Volkmar Glauche [mailto:glauche@uke.uni-hamburg.de] > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 4:06 AM > To: Robert Alonso > Cc: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com > Subject: RE: [suse-autoinstall] YaST2 not starting from inst-sys > > > On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 ralonso(a)lis.state.oh.us wrote: > > > Thanks Volkmar. I tried replacing the root image using > mkcramfs and I was > > successful to a certain degree. Now my problem is that I'm > unable to > > partition the hard drive. YaST2 complains that the hard > drive's partition > > table is unsupported. I've seen this error before and it > was due to YaST > > trying to create all partitions as primary. See > > http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/bugs.html#AEN60. > That's why I wanted > > to use the inst-sys directory, so that I could use the > updated package. > > Using the updated package has worked before on a standard > IDE hard drive, > > but now I'm using two SCSI drives with RAID support and > can't get the > > auto-partitioning to work. > > Which RAID support do you use? If you want to create lvm volume groups > from partitions on both drives, this will not work with even > the newest > available autoinstall module. I have got such a configuration on all > workstations (15+) in our department and I am still waiting with the > update until SuSE releases a working patch to the autoinstall > module. I > hope such a patch will be made available for 8.0 before the > 8.1 release > is shipped. > > > Has anyone had any success using autoyast with this type of > configuration? > > Any hints? > > Volkmar > > -- > Volkmar Glauche > > Department of Neurology E-Mail > glauche(a)uke.uni-hamburg.de > UKE Hamburg WWW http://glauche.home.pages.de/ > Martinistr. 52 Phone 49(0)40-42803-5781 > 20246 Hamburg Fax 49(0)40-42803-9955 > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help(a)suse.com >

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] Yast2 Autoinstall Custom CDs?...Documentation?
by Marc Peter 10 Jul '02

10 Jul '02

hi, i found this mail from may and my question, is there allready any documentation about creating a custom cd? ################################################################################ Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 17:14:48 +0200 From: Anas Nashif <nashif(a)suse.de> Message-ID: <20020502151448.GB18698(a)suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Yast2 Autoinstall Custom CDs? * Kevin Winner <krwinner(a)ix.netcom.com> [May 02. 2002 14:13]: > Will Yast2 autoinstall ever support creation of custom CDs to allow for adding > additional custom rpms like alice does now with make_inst_cd? > Yes. AutoYaST2 will have ALL those features that were available with alice and many more. Of course it is possible now but it has to be done manually. I will be adding some documentation on how this can be done shortly. Anas > Thanks, > Kevin any documentation -- ************************************************* Avitech Aviation Management Technologies GmbH Marc Peter Bahnhofplatz 1 D-88045 Friedrichshafen Phone: +49 7541/282-451 Fax: +49 7541/282-199 mailto:marc.peter@avitech.de *************************************************

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RE: [suse-autoinstall] YaST2 not starting from inst-sys
by ralonso＠lis.state.oh.us 09 Jul '02

09 Jul '02

Thanks Volkmar. I tried replacing the root image using mkcramfs and I was successful to a certain degree. Now my problem is that I'm unable to partition the hard drive. YaST2 complains that the hard drive's partition table is unsupported. I've seen this error before and it was due to YaST trying to create all partitions as primary. See http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/bugs.html#AEN60. That's why I wanted to use the inst-sys directory, so that I could use the updated package. Using the updated package has worked before on a standard IDE hard drive, but now I'm using two SCSI drives with RAID support and can't get the auto-partitioning to work. Has anyone had any success using autoyast with this type of configuration? Any hints? Thanks, Robert > -----Original Message----- > From: Volkmar Glauche [mailto:glauche@uke.uni-hamburg.de] > Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 11:11 AM > To: Robert Alonso > Cc: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] YaST2 not starting from inst-sys > > > On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 ralonso(a)lis.state.oh.us wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > For some reason, the root image (<path to suse > > installation>/suse/images/root) is still being read instead > of inst-sys > > (<path to suse installation>/suse/inst-sys). I needed the inst-sys > > directory so that I could run the updated version > yast2-module-autoinst. I > > did this according to the directions at > > http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/bugs.html#AEN110. > This worked > > successfully when I tested installation of my workstation. > YaST2 started > > from inst-sys. But now I'm trying to do the installation > onto another > > machine, and it keeps trying to read the the root image > instead of inst-sys. > > Any idea why the behavior differs between these two machines? > > I did not get the installation booting from the inst-sys > directory at all. > However, I did not find it very difficult to mkcramfs the updated > installation directory to create a new root image. So I replaced the > original image with the updated one and everything worked fine. > > Volkmar > > -- > Volkmar Glauche > > Department of Neurology E-Mail > glauche(a)uke.uni-hamburg.de > UKE Hamburg WWW http://glauche.home.pages.de/ > Martinistr. 52 Phone 49(0)40-42803-5781 > 20246 Hamburg Fax 49(0)40-42803-9955 > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help(a)suse.com >

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