August 2003 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [suse-autoinstall] partition problems with AutoYast / boot pr oblems with Intel onboard pro/100 VE
by Kurt Kronschnabl 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Berge, Harry ten schrieb: > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Kurt Kronschnabl [mailto:k.kronschnabl@ica-intercom-akademie.de] >>Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:31 PM >>To: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com >>Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] partition problems with >>AutoYast / boot >>pr oblems with Intel onboard pro/100 VE >> >> >> >>chapter 4.10, page 29 :-) > >>Succes! > >Perfect! The script is part of autoinst.xml All clear! > Perhaps you know another miracle: Where should I put the "textmode=1" command for yast2 to avoid long X11 startup times? The manual (yes, I read this section! :=)) explains to put it on the yast2 command line. But I have no access to the command line. Regards, Kurt > >

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] partition problems with AutoYast / boot pr oblems with Intel onboard pro/100 VE
by Kurt Kronschnabl 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

> > >>Yes you have. Using the command line of isolinux (the boot image of the SuSE >>dvd/cd.). All parameters that are not used by isolinux/linuxrc are given to >>yast. > >So I don't know if you are using a customised dvd or cd, but ifso you can >put 'textmode=1' into the isolinux.cfg file that is located in /boot/loader >on the dvd/cd. >Regards Harry For the cd-boot Methode it's good to know. Perhaps I'll switch later from Floppy to CD Booting. But now I load the kernel via floppy tftp grub and the rest will be loaded via nfs. The nfs "share" is a directory in which I have copied in all the 5 Suse 8.2 CDs. >As far I understood linuxrc will be used only when a CD based install Methode is used. Or can it "activated" using the floppy methode as well? > Regards, Kurt

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I'm new on this list
by Michael Binder 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Hi, I'm new on this list. I'm blind - so I think autoyast is the best way for me to install linux. I'm looking for a simple example xml-stream for a SuSE 8.2 to install it on a i386 Hardware. A friend (he is also blind) gave me an example but it doesn't run with SuSE 8.2 but it runs with SuSE 8.1. please send me a xml stream that runs on your system. thanks. Michael

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] partition problems with AutoYast / boot pr oblems with Intel onboard pro/100 VE
by Kurt Kronschnabl 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Berge, Harry ten schrieb: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Kurt Kronschnabl [mailto:k.kronschnabl@ica-intercom-akademie.de] >>Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:19 PM >>To: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com >>Subject: [suse-autoinstall] partition problems with AutoYast / boot pr >>oblems with Intel onboard pro/100 VE >> >> >> >>Do you have the documentation from AutoYast? It is clearly described with >>some examples. I don't have 'real-life' examples, but they are in the >>manual. > Yes, I have it, but not yet discovered this section. I'll have a closer look right now, thanks a lot! > >Hope this will get you started! Sure, it will! Regards, Kurt > >

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partition problems with AutoYast / boot pr oblems with Intel onboard pro/100 VE
by Kurt Kronschnabl 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

>Message-ID: <8C6ADF4772B7D511A3E40008C7BB878A014E55DB(a)chopin.hitt.nl> >From: "Berge, Harry ten" <berge(a)hitt.nl> >Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:47:32 +0200 >Subject: RE: [suse-autoinstall] partition problems with AutoYast / boot pr oblems with Intel onboard pro/100 VE >Maybe I have an answer to your first question: > > >AFAIK the autoinstaller will create new partitions at the END of the disk. > You mention that you have already 2 partitions at the end of the disk.... > A possible solution is to do the partitioning yourself in a script and leave >the disk untouched by the autoinstaller. > >Regards Harry Hi Harry, I am Kurt, a Team member together with Ralf. You are right, our existing partitons are at the END! I thought at the end they are sure enough for creating new ones through autoyast. :=) Could you please give me a hint where I can place and call the mentioned selfmade script inside the autoyast process? Regards, Kurt

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problem loading initrd....
by damien.selles＠eu.effem.com 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Hi all, I m trying to perform yast autoinstallation via nfs .. but booting on a SINGLE floppy... (mandatory requierments) What should I add to the bootdisk so that it would be able to get it initial ramdisk via nfs? Is there a way to get initrd from the network? If not, has anybody ever succeed in stripping initrd down to 350 ko and add it to the bootdisk? Has anybody ever experienced performing autoinstallation with only one floppy and the network? moreover, despite different readings i had, i m not sure to be clear on the interactions between the initrd ramdisk and the root ramdisk could anybody give me some explanations? Thanks in advance, --------------------------------------------------------------- Damien Selles

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] boot partition beyond 1024 cylinders
by Thomas Mack 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

>Hi, >Do you have install/mode/confirm set to true by any chance! This check >is only in confirmation mode, it should not happen if it is set to false. > Well, I have set install/general/mode/confirm to false - is there a difference to install/mode/confirm? Thomas Mack TU Braunschweig, Abt. Informationssysteme

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boot partition beyond 1024 cylinders
by Thomas Mack 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Hi! When trying to keep an existing Windows partition on hda1, we encounter a message to be manually clicked away that the boot partition is beyond cylinder 1024 ("so it cannot boot", but that is not a problem). So we cannot really autoinstall these machines so far: is there any solution to it available? <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/hda</device> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <mount>swap</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">130</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <size>2gb</size> </partition> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem> <mount>/</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr> <size>max</size> </partition> </partitions> <use>2,3,4,5,6,7</use> </drive> </partitioning> Thomas Mack TU Braunschweig, Abt. Informationssysteme

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autoyast supported for ppc64?
by Joachim Jordan 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Hello, i'm trying to set up a autoyast installation for pBlades and i get some problems. First question: Is yaboot supported in autoyast? It is supported in the normal Yast2 of the ppc64 distribution... Second question: How to i enforce that a partitions is a primary partition? In the documentation it says it should be possible by using partition_id, but i did not found any hint which value to use. 130? 5?, 131 seems to be logical drive... I also get a problem with partitioning if there are some partitions from a previous run... Best regards, Joachim Jordan Linux IT Architect, EMEA Linux Center of Competence IBM Laboratories, Dept.3300, Schoenaicherstr.220, D 71032 Boeblingen, Germany Sametime/e-mail: jordanj(a)de.ibm.com, Phone: +49-7031-16-4407; Fax: +49-7031-16-3232

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partition problems with AutoYast / boot problems with Intel onboard pro/100 VE
by Ralf.Pichler＠t-online.de 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Hello Ansa, I am new on the AutoYast mailinglist and today i want to contact you with following problem: goal is to autoinstall SUSE 8.2 in a 3GB primary ext2 partition for "/" and 300 MB for an additonal 300MB swap (as primary) keeping the already existing logical 300 MB swap and 2500MB ext2 at the end of the harddisk. I use a grub bootfloppy with the image from your website. It loads the kernel via tftp and makes the rest via nfs. Yast2 starts and reads the autoinst.xml. Result: No space left on Harddisk. I made the section "region_entry config" by hand based on a start autoinst from yast2. To create the two additional partitions with parted is no problem, but yast2 has problems to do this. What could be the reason? My second problem is when booting with a compiled grub bootloader from floppy on a second PC. Here I build grub from the spec file with the option "--enable-eepro100" for supporting an Intel 82801 BD PRO/100 VE onboard network card. When booting with this floppy, the module EEPRO100 can't be loaded. Did I enable the correct network device in the spec file or which is the right one? With regards and thanks for your affords, Ralf Pichler -- ________________________________ Ralf Pichler Gräfelfinger Straße 151 81375 München phone: +49-89-74 02 93 45 mobil: +49-170-90 80 44 3 email: ralf.pichler(a)t-online.de

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