May 2003 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Include a .tar.gz file into an autoinstall file
by Fabiano Felix 23 May '03

23 May '03

Hi All, I want to make an autoinstall file with the following components: a normal installation with customized packages selections and partitions. At the end, I want to umcompress a tar.gz file and run a shell script (to change some files/permissions). It's possible, or I will have to insert file for file into control file? Regards, Fabiano Felix

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problem configuring sound
by Eric Heydrick 23 May '03

23 May '03

I'm having a problem configuring sound on 8.2. Here is the sound section of my config: <sound> <autoinstall config:type="boolean">true</autoinstall> <modules_conf config:type="list"> <module_conf> <alias>snd-card-0</alias> <model>82801DB-ICH4, Intel</model> <module>snd-intel8x0</module> <options> <snd_ac97_clock>0</snd_ac97_clock> <snd_enable>1</snd_enable> <snd_index>0</snd_index> </options> <unique_key>uniq.virtual</unique_key> </module_conf> </modules_conf> <volume_settings config:type="list"> <volume_entry> <Master config:type="integer">75</Master> </volume_entry> </volume_settings> </sound> And here is what I get in y2log: 2003-05-22 18:55:23 <1> linux(982) [YCP] clients/autoinst_configure.ycp:98 current resource: sound 2003-05-22 18:55:23 <1> linux(982) [YCP] clients/autoinst_configure.ycp:111 Writ ing configuration for sound 2003-05-22 18:55:23 <1> linux(982) [YCP] clients/autoinst_configure.ycp:132 Call ing auto client with: $["autoinstall":true, "modules_conf":[$["alias":"snd-card- 0", "model":"82801DB-ICH4, Intel", "module":"snd-intel8x0", "options":$["snd_ac9 7_clock":"0", "snd_enable":"1", "snd_index":"0"], "unique_key":"uniq.virtual"]], "volume_settings":[$["Master":75]]] 2003-05-22 18:55:23 <1> linux(982) [Interpreter] modules/Call.ycp:22 Calling YCP function module clients/sound_auto.ycp 2003-05-22 18:55:23 <1> linux(982) [YCP] clients/sound_auto.ycp(Call::Function):31 ---------------------------------------- 2003-05-22 18:55:23 <1> linux(982) [YCP] clients/sound_auto.ycp(Call::Function):32 Sound auto started 2003-05-22 18:55:23 <1> linux(982) [Interpreter] clients/sound_auto.ycp:34 Loading YCP module Sound 2003-05-22 18:55:23 <1> linux(982) [YCP] clients/sound_auto.ycp(Call::Function): 93 Sound auto finished 2003-05-22 18:55:23 <1> linux(982) [YCP] clients/sound_auto.ycp(Call::Function): 94 ---------------------------------------- 2003-05-22 18:55:23 <1> linux(982) [Interpreter] modules/Call.ycp:22 Calling YCP function module clients/sound_auto.ycp 2003-05-22 18:55:23 <1> linux(982) [YCP] clients/sound_auto.ycp(Call::Function): 31 ---------------------------------------- 2003-05-22 18:55:23 <1> linux(982) [YCP] clients/sound_auto.ycp(Call::Function): 32 Sound auto started 2003-05-22 18:55:23 <3> linux(982) [Interpreter] clients/sound_auto.ycp:82 actual arguments don't match definition for 'Write' Expected Write(block _unused, block _unused2) Seen Sound::Write () Am I missing something? Thanks. -Eric

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users not created
by Pablo Gomez 22 May '03

22 May '03

Hello again I am using a SuSE 7.3 as server but installing a 8.2 via network. This is the <user> section the .xml contains: <users config:type="list"> <user> <encrypted config:type="boolean">true</encrypted> <user_password>z9GVieH7YNmSE</user_password> <username>root</username> </user> <user> <encrypted config:type="boolean">false</encrypted> <user_password>clh</user_password> <username>clh</username> </user> <user> <encrypted config:type="boolean">false</encrypted> <user_password>pgomez</user_password> <username>pgomez</username> <uid>1000</uid> </user> </users> root is succesfully created, but 'clh' and 'pgomez' aren't. I tried to supply encrypted passwords both for 'pgomez' and 'clh' users without luck. Any clue? thanks in advance.

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Antwort: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Boot HddImage
by Alexander.Gehrig＠RSD.rohde-schwarz.com 22 May '03

22 May '03

hi Thanks for answer... We will build the image by using ghost ( support for ext2fs ). So we are able to recreate the image on the most partitions. The networkboot is not possible because we have many different systems with different hardware on different locations. The lastes systems supports booting form network, but we have many older systems, that do not support this function. So we have to create a possibillity to initialize a autoinstall without this hardware. At the moment we need 3 disks to start the autoinstall and 1 disk to prepare the computer for installing operatingsystems.Linux will be the second os beside a windows os. Our preparedisk creates all needed partitions, so autoyast only format the partions, that was marked for linux. Do you know a possibillity to copy a Image of SuSE CD1 on a harddisk image and boot from it? Do you know any possiblity to build a very small suse installation instead of the first? Installation: 1. prepare hdd 2. copy linux image to partition ( the parttition is >4GB ) 3. boot from this linux 4. start autoinstall ( Installserver NFS ) The autoinstall should format the partions with small linux. Any ideas? Any discriptions? thanks! bye Alexander |--------+-----------------------> | | Thomas Mack | | | <mack(a)ips.cs.| | | tu-bs.de> | | | | | | 22.05.2003 | | | 09:53 | | | | |--------+-----------------------> >----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | An: Alexander Gehrig/RSD@RSD | | Kopie: | | Thema: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Boot HddImage | >----------------------------------------------------------------------------| >Hi All, > >I want to create a diskless installation for our os installroutine. > Normally, you would use network booting for this - it works without problems... >How can i create a small basic linux installation on a partition so i am able to >clone this partition. When you do this, your hardware will have to be very much identical on every machine. You could try to create this small installation with dhcp network (so you don't have different network settings on every machine) and automatic startup of autoinstallation after boot. SuSE might not be the ideal system for this, as you will need rather much space even for a minimal installation I think. >After this on each System i want to install i copy this image on a ready >prepartitioned hdd. Don't know, if dd will help here, but you could give it a try. There are tools for creating (and restoring) disk images, don't really know, what the name was for the free gnu tool, something like gnupart. Norton ghost can do this as well, and there are many more. The gnu tool should be sufficient. >Now i am able to boot from this partition an load all needed modules and start >the autoinstall. Don't really understand, why you don't autoinstall right from the beginning. You need boot proms on the network cards of each PC, and the mainboard needs support for booting from the network. You can normally resolve the first problem by buying boot proms if not yet installed (we payed about 6,- Euro each), but if the mainboards do not support booting from the network, then... :( Success, Thomas Mack TU Braunschweig, Abt. Informationssysteme

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Network installation of SuSE 8.2 (GRUB, PXE, Ramdisk) - pointers to information needed
by Ralph Seichter 22 May '03

22 May '03

I need to do custom installations of SuSE Linux 8.2 on industry box computers without Floppy or CDROM, using only the PXE network boot support provided by the BIOS and GRUB. The toughest part seems to be to get the initial ramdisk (initrd) populated and running, and I can't seem to find enough valid information on this subject. I have adapted /sbin/mk_initrd, but I'm probably doing something wrong there. I am not quite sure if this mailing list is the right place to ask for help regarding ramdisk usage. If it is not, please point me to the right list. Thank you. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Yours sincerely Dipl. Inform. Ralph Seichter

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Boot HddImage
by Alexander.Gehrig＠RSD.rohde-schwarz.com 22 May '03

22 May '03

Hi All, I want to create a diskless installation for our os installroutine. How can i create a small basic linux installation on a partition so i am able to clone this partition. After this on each System i want to install i copy this image on a ready prepartitioned hdd. Now i am able to boot from this partition an load all needed modules and start the autoinstall. While autoinstall the partitions will be only formated and Linux will be installed. Is there any discription to do things like that? thanks a lot! bye Alexander

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Keeping Partitons
by Urs Haberthuer 21 May '03

21 May '03

Dear All, On /dev/hda, there are 5 partitions: /dev/hda5 /boot (32MB) /dev/hda6 swap (2.0GB) /dev/hda7 / (10.0GB) /dev/hda8 /install (10.0GB) /dev/hda9 /home (80.0GB) I would like to autoinstall SuSE 8.2 with KEEPING all partitons, format /dev/hda5,...,/dev/hda8 and not format /dev/hda9. I use the following .xml configuration file that is very similar to the one in the documentation: ... <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>/boot</mount> <partition_nr config:type="integer">5</partition_nr> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>swap</mount> <partition_nr config:type="integer">6</partition_nr> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>/</mount> <partition_nr config:type="integer">7</partition_nr> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>/install</mount> <partition_nr config:type="integer">8</partition_nr> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <mount>/home</mount> <partition_nr config:type="integer">9</partition_nr> </partition> </partitions> </drive> </partitioning> ... It does not work. I get the simple error message: No space left on /dev/hda. I tried several variations with no success. Does anybody know what to do? Any help is greatly appreciated. If you ever succeeded in keeping your partitions, I would be very interested in your .xml configuration file. Thanks a lot! Urs Haberthuer -- Urs Haberthuer Department of Biochemistry University of Zurich Winterthurerstrasse 190 CH - 8057 Zurich Phone: ++41 (0)1 635 55 92 Fax: ++41 (0)1 635 68 62 E-mail: atlantis(a)bioc.unizh.ch

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] problems when autoinstall several machine from network
by Li Nicolas 21 May '03

21 May '03

>See is your NFS and harddisk connections work as required. We met some >similar problem when we had multiple different SCSI SBus adapter in one >of our SUN Sparc servers in some kind of default configuration. > >I did not yet check the reinstall of the PCs, but I do expect the reinstall >to work correctly now, after we cleanud up the (rather rare and obscure) >SCSI problem issue. > >Thomas Mack >TU Braunschweig, Abt. Informationssysteme > There is no problem for the NFS and harddisk. Actually , for the machines that had problems, if repower them , they might autoinstall from the same server without a problem. I do not clear what cause the uncertain action and how to avoid it. Thanks Nicolas _________________________________________________________________ 享用世界上最大的电子邮件系统― MSN Hotmail。 http://www.hotmail.com

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first boot -> problems
by Pablo Gomez 21 May '03

21 May '03

Hello. I have just got the autoinstall system up and running, but am experiencing some problems. In order of not flooding the list with descriptions, I'll just speak of one of them. I am trying to install a fresh locally downloaded 8.2 distro in its ftp-site. While i get some ISOLINUX errors, the install process starts and ends as expected except: The root user account is created but others account are not. This is the .xml excerpt: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE profile SYSTEM "/usr/share/YaST2/include/autoinstall/profile.dtd"> <profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns"> <configure> <users config:type="list"> <user> <encrypted config:type="boolean">true</encrypted> <user_password>z9GVieH7YNmSE</user_password> <username>root</username> </user> <user> <encrypted config:type="boolean">false</encrypted> <user_password>clh</user_password> <username>clh</username> </user> <user> <encrypted config:type="boolean">false</encrypted> <user_password>pgomez</user_password> <username>pgomez</username> <uid>1000</uid> </user> </users> </profile> of course the real file is different. As root is succesfully created, I tried to supply encrypted passwords both for 'pgomez' and 'clh' users without luck. Any clue? Thanks in advance! PG

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problems when autoinstall several machine from network
by Li Nicolas 21 May '03

21 May '03

Hi, I setup a autoinstall server using dhcp, atftp, nfs for SLES8 . And it could work automatically. Recently, I met some problems when installing several machine concurrent. Sometimes, a machine will stop when retrieving or parsing control file. Sometimes, a machine will meet some package error. If I installed each machine alone , it could be installed automatically without any error. But in my situation, I really need install several machines concurrently. Could any modification to autoyast or nfs configuration make it better? Is there any performance data for the network autoinstallation? Any suggestions is welcome. Thank you Regards Nicolas _________________________________________________________________ 与联机的朋友进行交流，请使用 MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com/cn

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