July 2002 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Yast2 problem again
by Carlos Fangmeier 04 Jul '02

04 Jul '02

Hi Another mail around Yast2 installation. I didn´t achieve to change the installation media of my SuSe. Maybe is it a unknown bug from Yast2, or it is maybe a known bug, specailly there in the ftp version of Suse 8.0? Yesturday I did a litle reverse enginering to find out why I could not change de Install Media, I just put some extra Message in the Yast2 module, such as MediaUI.ycp and InstMedia.ycp . I find out that for some reason my HardDisk isn´t a valid Installation Device, as responds to the call to SCR::Read(...) in the MountMedia function from InstMedia.ycp . From which file did SCR::Read() read the configuration, I didn´t know the answer, maybe some of you. But there muts be the problem, no......... Carlos Fanfmeier

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Yast2 InstallMedia Panic
by Carlos Fangmeier 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

Hi again, yestarday I did have the problem to install suse from my hard, but I didn´t find any answer to my problem, so I decided to install it from a local ftp server........it was succefully..........great installation. I boot my brand new suse distro without any problem, but thenn I try to change the Install Media to my hard disk, but for my surprise there was the same error from the installation..........un able to mount the partition or media bla bla bla.......... Is there some bug in Yast2, that I should to know?, maybe is there a new version or a patch. Carlos Fangmeier H. Santiago Chile

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RE: [suse-autoinstall] extended partitions
by ralonso＠lis.state.oh.us 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

Is there any way to tell autoyast to do this automatically? From the explanation below, it seems that I have to manually run fdisk and create the extended partition before I attempt the autoinstall. What I'd like to do is specify the extended partition in the configuration file. Any ideas? Thanks, Robert -----Original Message----- From: Michael Benz [mailto:michael.benz@3WARE.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 3:08 PM To: Robert Alonso; suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com Subject: RE: [suse-autoinstall] extended partitions Robert, You need to create the partitions you want (i.e. /, /boot, swap, etc) then create a partition that contains the remainder of the drive space and convert it to an extended partition then create logical partitions in the extended space. I think 4 is the maximum number of primary partitions you can have. -michael

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extended partitions
by ralonso＠lis.state.oh.us 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

Hi all, I'm trying to configure a drive with 7 partitions, but when I start the autoinstall, fdisk fails apparantly because it tries to make all partitions primary. The only info I could find on this (http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/bugs.html#AEN60) says to upgrade to the latest version of the module, which I've done. However, I still don't see a way to mark a partition as extended. Has anyone had any success configuring a drive with more than 4 partitions without using LVM? Thanks, Robert

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