July 2002 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[HELP] Can not find installation source.
by Felix Guettler 08 Jul '02

08 Jul '02

Hi *, i am already running a Redhat KickStart server, but im not very familiar with SuSE AutoYast or ALICE. Actually i got a problem with the Bootmanagement i guess. The system start up read the info file but can't find a source to install from. That is what i have already done: - I set up a NFS service and i am exporting SuSE 8.0 FTP Version (mirroring ftp.suse.com) The NFS Server is called "linuxsrv". - I created a bootdisk (default) and added the "info" file and the "autoinst.xml" to the root directory of the floppy. - I created a modules disk (default). Then i replaced the initrd with a new one (including 3c90x.o and aic7xxx.o). - The autoinst.xml file was created with the yast2 mod and checked with tidy. That is what happen: - After loading the kernel and modules from the disk the setup stops with a message that says that the is no valid installation source. I double check the nfs-server and it is possible to do a nfs-installtion on the target system with the manual setup from the bootdisk. Here is my info file ... i found example info-files with different syntax in the www and i am not sure if this one is correct. I already tried to use "<variable>: <value>" and "<variable>=<value>". <code> IP: 192.168.0.100 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.0.1 Server: 192.168.0.244 Serverdir: /home/ftp/pub/LinuxInstall/suse8.0_i386 Nameserver: 192.168.0.10 Netdevice: eth0 insmod aic7xxx insmod 3c90x autoyast=default install=nfs://192.168.0.244/home/ftp/pub/LinuxInstall/suse8.0_i386 </code> Would be nice if you could help me ... if you need further info please drop me a line (mailto:guettler@fokus.gmd.de). Thank you, Felix. Excuse my basic level english. _________________________________________________________________________ Felix V. Güttler Fraunhofer FOKUS - VST

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Update break konqueror.
by Jussi Jaaskelainen 08 Jul '02

08 Jul '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I just made yast2 online update (Suse 8.0 professional) and after that when I0 try to start konqueror I get next error message two times: There was an error loading the module About-Page for Konqueror. The diagnostics is: /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeprint.so.4: undefined symbol:=20 addColumn__9KListViewRC7QStringi I had that same problem on other machine too, there I just installed KDE3 again (loosing fix-patches ofcourse) to gain functionality... - -- Jussi Jääskeläinen, Audio Riders Oy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPSmBPyCdxta+jYblEQIHMwCg64uYEj3Qh+VHQE+TAEw8i25IcLQAoIqA 4aoFuoRmecJwAscwdezfTIqX =Ztw+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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How to create an iso file
by Marc Peter 08 Jul '02

08 Jul '02

hi, at the moment im playing with suse80 and autoyast. i've done everything th assistend told me and now... how can i create an iso image file as like alice with make_inst_cd? thx marc -- ************************************************* 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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fully automatically installation
by Frank Pascher 08 Jul '02

08 Jul '02

Hi, at the moment our installserver is running quite good. What I don't like is going to every machine as soon a reinstall is necessary. So what do I plan to do: I want every client to start up and check whether he needs to be installed or not (best including wake up on lan). Ok this is the main aim and want to realise it step by step. Thinking of the following: There is one bootp/tftp, dhcp and/or PXE Server running. And for sure the installserver itself. My problem is now. What do I need PXE or only dhcp and tftp. And how to set it up. The first aim would be to get a full networkinstall without any boot media. Thanks in advanced for all your suggestions. cheers frank +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie | | Abt.1 (wissenschaftliche DV) | | | | Frank Pascher | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Auf dem Huegel 69 Tel.: +49 (228) 525 359 | | 53121 Bonn Fax.: +49 (228) 535 229 | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Email: mailto:fpascher@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de | | WWW: http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de | | PGP Fingerprint: 13D1 8C86 57B3 2850 F158 4879 E5F3 7E20 | +----------------------------------------------------------+

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YaST2 not starting from inst-sys
by ralonso＠lis.state.oh.us 07 Jul '02

07 Jul '02

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? Interesting (and perhaps useful) facts: Both machines were booted from the same disk (SuSE 8 CD1) Both use the same info file for linuxrc The new machine uses RAID and SCSI Thanks, Robert

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Need help for and already mounted problem, appears when yast2 try to mount sourc
by Hugo ZM 06 Jul '02

06 Jul '02

Im a newbie here.... can someone help Im trying to install suse 8 on my pc... i have partitioned my HD in this way... NTFS partition of 40Gb Fat32 6Gb...(here i downloaded the ftp suse version) Unallocated 24Gb... I start my installation .. and all look nice.. but after yast2.. make my partition ..send me a messages ..that the images is already mounted or something like that... and interrupt my installation... After reading.. i find out that i need to do some changes in yast2.. but i dont know what changes.. and how to do it.... Please i need some help _________________________________________________________________ MSN Fotos: la forma más fácil de compartir e imprimir fotos. http://photos.msn.es/support/worldwide.aspx

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Suse installation Question
by Carlos Fangmeier 05 Jul '02

05 Jul '02

I downloaded the complete directory of Suse to my HD. I try to install it, all went great, until after the formatingo of the target partition. It try to mount the source partition, who was already mounted (when it load the Root file), and give me a error......../dev/hdaX already mounted at ........ I try to do the installation from all my HD, but all my trys end in the same. I guess it is a bug of the Yast2, what can I do to solve this problem? Carlos Fangmeier H. Santiago Chile

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Partitioning/LVM
by Georg Wallner 05 Jul '02

05 Jul '02

Hello, i tryed to autoinstall two physical volumes, one on /dev/sda4 and one on /dev/sdb, with the same volume_group system. But it won't work. Following my partition section. The error message where "vgcreate -A n -s 4096k system /dev/system vgcreate -- ERROR can't create a new physical volumes on /dev/sda4". Listing: <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/sda</device> <reuse>all</reuse> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs> <crypt_key/> <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap </filesystem> <filesystem_id config:type="integer">130</filesystem_id> <format config:type="boolean">true </format> <mount/> <size>256M</size> <type>Linux swap</type> </partition> <partition> <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs> <crypt_key/> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem> <filesystem_id config:type="integer">131</filesystem_id> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>/boot</mount> <size>15M</size> <type>Linux native</type> </partition> <partition> <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs> <crypt_key/> <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiserfs</filesystem> <filesystem_id config:type="integer">131</filesystem_id> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>/</mount> <size>5GB</size> <type>Linux native</type> </partition> <partition> <size>max</size> <filesystem-id config:type="integer">142</filesystem-id> <lvm_group>system </lvm_group> </partition> </partitions> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/sdb</device> <reuse>all</reuse> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <size>max</size> <lvm_group>system </lvm_group> <filesystem-id config:type="integer">142</filesystem-id> </partition> </partitions> </drive> </partitioning> <lvm config:type="list"> <lvm_group> <lvm_name>system </lvm_name> <pesize>4M</pesize> <logical_volumes config:type="list"> <lv> <lv_name>backuplv</lv_name> <lv_size>max </lv_size> <lv_fs>reiser</lv_fs> <lv_mount>/backup</lv_mount> </lv> </logical_volumes> </lvm_group> </lvm> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Georg Wallner

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Kind of a complicated install problem need help with
by eric.linux＠t-online.de 05 Jul '02

05 Jul '02

After a week of frustration I've finally got Suse 8.0 installed but..... Using LILO I can boot Suse but when I try to boot Windows it hangs with "Loading Windows". I've looked on the Suse web site and found a reference to that. The reference said the Lilo config was wrong and to do fdisk -l to get the right Windows boot drive. Thing is my lilo.conf was set up correctly. Hardware: MSI K7T266 Pro2 Series motherboard w/integrated Promise RAID Maxtor Ultra-133 PCI IDE card No hd's connected to mb ide 1 or 2. Two hds form RAID 1 on the mb, and two are connected to the PCI IDE controller card as master drives. The RAID drive is my Windows installation. The motherboard allows you to choose which physical hd to boot from. When I set it to boot from a hd connected to the Ultra 133 Lilo starts and I can boot linux but not windows. When I set the mb boot to the RAID, Lilo bombs out. If I take the floppy out bypassing Lilo, Windows boots ok. When I set the mb to boot RAID, Linux installs but the only way I can get it to boot is through the DVD. I installed Suse 8.0 by setting my mb to boot hda, first hd on the PCI IDE. Not knowing this I installed Windows with the mb booting from RAID. Drive C on the raid is the only primary bootable partition. Suse was installed in an extended linux partition on a hd connected to the PCI IDE card. Here's my lilo.conf file. I commented out booting from hda6 and set it to boot from floppy. I also ran lilo to update the configuration. # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Jul 5 12:38:19 2002 #boot = /dev/hda6 boot = /dev/fd0 change-rules reset read-only menu-scheme = Wg:kw:Wg:Wg lba32 prompt timeout = 80 message = /boot/message image = /boot/vmlinuz label = linux initrd = /boot/initrd root = /dev/hda6 vga = 791 image = /boot/vmlinuz.suse label = failsafe append = "ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off" initrd = /boot/initrd.suse optional root = /dev/hda6 vga = 791 other = /dev/ataraid/d0p1 label = windows image = /boot/memtest.bin label = memtest86 #end of lilo.conf fdisk -l shows /dev/ataraid/d0p1 as the boot device which is my Drive C in Windows. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/ataraid/d0p1 * 1 128 1028128+ b Win95FAT32 But then I get some error messages I think: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/ataraid/d0p1p1 ? 120513 235786 925929529+ 68 Unkown Then it tells me the Partition table entries are not in disk order and unable to read /dev/ataraid/d0p2 and stops. hda is the first hd on the PCI IDE controller card. hdc is the 2nd. I can mount Windows Drive C. Haven't tried any other drives. I'm under the assumption that the RAID is working on the mb and no additional modules etc need to be set up in Linux. Is this a false assumption? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!! I dread the idea of having to change CMOS settings everytime I need to switch OSs. Thanks! Eric

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Autoinstall, multiple NICs, DSL-Problem after YAST-Setup, SuSE 8. 0
by Beckmann, Sebastian 05 Jul '02

05 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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