August 2002 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

No user interrupt during automatic installation
by Kugelberg, Thorsten 07 Aug '02

07 Aug '02

Hallo, I am planning to install an Iternet Cafe workstation on SuSE 8.0 via the = yast2 autoinstall. The only thing I do not like is, that the user could abort the installati= on and that the shell on tty 3,5 and 6 are open.=20 Is there a way to dissallow this interaction?! I think there was such an option with the autoinstall from SuSE 7.2... Regards Thorsten

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How can I configure additional packages
by Jibin Huang 06 Aug '02

06 Aug '02

Hi, all: I want to install the xntp via autoyast. And it should be configuriert in the file /etc/ntp.conf after the Installation.By the way the file /etc/cups/client.conf should also be configured. Could somebody help me ? Is it possible, that I set the /etc/ntp.conf and /etc/cups/client.conf via post-scripts ? Regrads Jibin

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general questions from a beginner
by Ashley 06 Aug '02

06 Aug '02

Hello, Can I use AutoYaST2 to install SuSE 7.2? If so, do I need to update all the YaST packages as well as getting yast2-config-autoinst? Can I use just a boot floppy to start AutoYaST2 for an nfs install, or must I boot from CD? -- -ashley One of these days I'm going to completely organize my life.

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SuSe 8.0 distribution
by Kenneth Asbury 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

I purchased SuSe 6.4 a couple of years ago and have decided to upgrade to 8.0. The full 8.0 distribution was downloaded but I can't seem to find any information regarding how to create installation CD's. I was able to burn a bootable 8.0 startup CD but the install from FTP fails. While I am able to load the network module for my DLink NIC, I can't seem to get IP working. Anyway, how can I create installation CD's? Thanks. --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better

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Partitioning again ...
by Marcel Ritter 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

Hi again! I'd like to get some further information on the <use> and <reuse> statements (partitioning/drive). According to the documentation it is possible to (re)use certain partitions for installation. But there's no example of how to do it. I tried several forms but none worked (This should reuse partitions 2 and 3) <reuse>2 3</reuse> or <reuse>2,3</reuse> Both did not work. Can someone tell me how to do this??? Ciao, Marcel ---- Marcel Ritter Linux Betreuer Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen ---- Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] [HELP] Can not find installation source
by Peeter Russak 01 Aug '02

01 Aug '02

Hi Anas, I entered your line exactly into boot command line but still autoyast reports the same error: Please insert CD 1. Could not mount the source medium. mount:/dev/hdb already mounted or /var/adm/mount busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/hdb is already mounted on /var/adm/mount Does anyone else have had better luck? Can anyone explain by what rule does boot parameters appear in boot commandline? There's some command line parameters for every boot option in isolinux.cfg but only 'Installation - Safe settings' parameters show up on bottom line when selected. It would be good to be able to look every option's parameters and edit if needed. For some guys who still have problems with setup not recognizing their CD as valid install source. I had same problem yesterday and appeared that the problem was with using bs= parameter for dd when extracting iso from CD. Doing just a simple dd < /dev/cdrom > plaa.iso cured everything. So the good command sequence is: dd < /dev/cdrom > suse1.iso mkdir susedir mount -o loop suse1.iso susedir mkdir mydir cp -a susedir/* mydir/ umount susedir cp ~/autoinst.xml mydir/ mkisofs -r -T -J -pad -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \ -b suse/images/boot/isolinux.bin -c suse/images/boot.catalog \ -A SuSE-Linux-Professional-INT-i386-8.0.0#0 -V SU8000.001 -o myinstall.iso mydir Now if anybody could explain me how to make this CD boot, read configuration file and install all from same CD I would be saved from offering floppies to customer. Please:) -- Peeter On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Anas Nashif wrote: > > i'm trying to prepare a custom cd. what is the correct path description for the > > installation source on cd? > > > > maybe... > > > > install=file:// > > Try this: > put the control file in the root of the CD image and name it > autoinst.xml > and add the following to isolinux.cfg > > autoyast=default instmode=cd usedhcp=0 > > Anas

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