January 2004 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Suse and Nagios
by Browett, Darren 07 Jan '04

07 Jan '04

I am planning on using the nagios that comes with SLES 8.0, and have noticed that is an older version (1.04) then what is currently available (I think 1.1). How do I go about upgrading the Suse version ? Or should I simply create an entire new installation (/usr/local/nagios ) using the packages from Nagios. ? Not sure if this is the correct list for this question, if it isn't can somebody direct me to the correct one. Thanks Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------- Darren Browett P.Eng This message was transmitted Data Administrator using 100% recycled electrons Information and Communication Technology City of Coquitlam P:(604)927 - 3614 E:dbrowett@coquitlam.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------

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Can't load configs into autoyast
by Paul Byrne 07 Jan '04

07 Jan '04

Hi, I'm having a problem with autoyast in Suse 9.0 pro. Once I've built a configuration and saved it I can't load it back into autoyast. The load operation seems to access the file but nothing appears in the tool. Is anyone else seeing this ? Rgds Paul

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how to copy installations?
by Ricardo Kleemann 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Hi, I have one server where I've installed SUSE 9.0 and a number of other things. How can I duplicate this installation to another server? Is there a way to boot from CD and then copy the installation over the network? Thanks Ricardo

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a few questions
by Tom Davidson 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Hi, I've got a few questions about configuring autoyast2 and the answers don't appear to be in the manuals on http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall: 1) Is it possible to configure the bootloader resource to not do anything to the bootloader? I have multiple entries of all sorts in my grub config and don't want SuSE to touch anything. In fact, I'm reinstalling SuSE a number of times and already have the required entries for it in the config. 2) How can I make the installation fully automatic? I don't want to be asked to confirm the settings and then confirm that I *really* want to do this... 3) Does autoinstalling generate a profile anywhere for the system that it just installed, like RedHat does with anaconda-ks.cfg? It would be nice to be able to install a system manually as desired and then use a generated profile to effectively clone it. I know that the YaST2 GUI can read the current machine into a profile, but it doesn't do a perfect job, and only lists shed loads of packages, rather than the install type (default,Minimal etc.). Apologies if these questions have already been asked on the list, but with it not being searchable (and the netsys.com engine being down) I couldn't find out easily. Cheers, Tom -- Tom Davidson Unix SysAdmin

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k_smp4G missing from created SUSE9.0 ISO image
by Magnus Hagebris 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

My created ISO image does only contain the k_deflt, k_athlon and k_smp kernels. Where is the k_smp4G kernel? Is this a bug in the autoinstall iso creation? I created a patched source tree;the description files look good and properly includes the k_smp4G kernel. It just doesn't get added to the ISO. During install YaST complains about not finding the k_smp4G kernel on the cd... Install works perfectly fine on systems not using the k_smp4G kernel. Any work-around for this? Or tips... Thanks, Magnus

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No Kernel installed
by Martin Möser 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Hi List, since we build our custom-CD's (SLES8) with SP3, there will be no kernel installed by autoyast. As a result, all modules are missing, and /boot is almost empty, no boot-image or initrd in there. So the network interfaces don't work and the reboot fails because of the missing vmlinuz. We use a machine with two processors and therefore we need an smp-kernel installed which worked fine BEFORE we put the SP3-Packages into the repository. The needed kernel was detected and installed automatically. Any ideas? Regards, Martin Möser -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

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SuSE 9.0 PXE boot problem
by Harald.Milz＠computacenter.com 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

Hi, since my notebook's CD-ROM drive is dying slowly I tried to install SuSE Linux 9.0 Prof. from my existing PXE/DHCP/TFTP server which already has working configs for 8.0 and 8.2: label 8.0 kernel kernel-8.0 append initrd=initrd-8.0 acpi=off apm=off install="nfs://192.168.20.1/pub/suse/SuSE-8.0" label 8.2 kernel kernel-8.2 append initrd=initrd-8.2 acpi=off apm=off install="nfs://192.168.20.1/pub/suse/SuSE-8.2" As usual, copied boot/loader/linux and boot/loader/initrd to /tftpboot and added a config entry to pxelinux.cfg/default: label 9.0 kernel kernel-9.0 append initrd=initrd-9.0 ramdisk_size=65536 showopts ide=nodma acpi=off apm=off install="nfs://192.168.20.1/pub/suse/SuSE-9.0" which, apart from some additional options taken from the CD isolinux.cfg file, are identical to the ones above. The additional options don't change any of the descibed behaviour, which is: - notebook boots via pxelinux just fine, I get my text menu, enter 9.0 - kernel unpacks, and ... - the screen is an 80x25 chaos of ASCII characters with various attributes, like blink, etc. Machine stops. Nothing happens. It looks as if the kernel was unpacked into the EGA video memory region at segment b800. Any clue what happens? Mit freundlichen Gruessen - Best regards Harald Milz Senior Consultant CC CompuNet AG & Co. oHG A part of Computacenter plc Hoerselbergstrasse 7, 81677 Muenchen, Germany Phone: +49 (0)89 45712-161, Fax: -331, Mobile: +49 (0)173 3866604

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SLES 8 SP3 Bugs?
by Hans Kamm 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Hi, I think, there are some bugs with the SLES SP3 installer. e. g. some packages get always installed (SuSEFirewall, providers, jfsutils, rsh, rsync...) I' ve set <base></base> and no addons. I don't want to delete the packages after isntallation. I think without sax2 you can't do a automated installation with a minimal X-system. The ntp-server will get no entry in the /etc/ntp.conf. The entry under /etc/sysconfig/xntp exists. <ntp_servers config:type="list"> <ntp_server>ntp-server</ntp_server> </ntp_servers> How to eject CD-Rom before reboot? Hans _________________________________________________________________ Schützen Sie Ihren Posteingang vor unerwünschten E-Mails. http://www.msn.de/antispam/prevention/junkmailfilter Jetzt Hotmail-Junk-Filter aktivieren!

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