March 2004 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

root passwort, sound
by Dominic Lukwata 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

Hi all, we autoinstall Suse 9.0. It work better and better but there still some problems: 1. we have not succeeded to set a root passowrd per autoinstall. 2. The sound module makes post installation after the first log in and the Master volume ist at zero. We use the onboard sound on the motherboard ASUS P4P800 Delux Hier ist the sound section in the controll file <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"> <listentry> <Master config:type="integer">75</Master> </listentry> </volume_settings> </sound> Does any one has any hint how to fix these? Thanks Dominic

3 3

custom kernel
by Benjamin P Myers 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

Hi, I'm having a little trouble getting autoyast to install the desired kernel. I've compiled and packaged 'k_smp_vanilla' and 'k_deflt_vanilla' and would like to install them instead of the stock stuff, but it installs k_smp instead. I'm using autoyast2-2.6.41-3 on SuSE 8.1. Here's the section from my config: <software> <base>Minimal</base> <kernel>k_smp_vanilla</kernel> <packages config:type="list"> <package>compat</package> <package>apt</package> <package>cfengine</package> <package>xntp</package> </packages> </software> I'd like to avoid using a chroot script to do this, if possible. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Ben

4 5

Disable console during installation?
by Jan-Marc Pilawa 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

Hello List, the graphical installation is a fine thing because my users can see what is going on and see the advertisements ;-) But how is it possible, that they can't use the open consoles? (/dev/tty2 f.e.) I don't like that they can read .Reh in /lib/YaST2 ;-) Best Regards Jan Pilawa. -- + Kontakt ----------------------------------------------------+ + Systembetreuung Rechenzentrum TU Braunschweig + + Hans-Sommer-Str. 65, D-38092 Braunschweig + + Tel: +49 531 391-5548 Mail: j.pilawa(a)tu-bs.de ______________+

2 1

Feature request list
by Frank Steiner 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

Hi Anas, following is a list of feature request (yes, a lot :-)) that we missed during installing a very heterogenous network of 60 hosts with SuSE 9.0. Maybe some of them can make into the next version :-) 1) One cannot specify the disk option for lilo.conf. This is very bad if you have a host with scsi and ide disks and want to boot from the scsi disk. 2) You cannot take over the paket selection that is saved from yast2 as selection file for autoyast. They are incompatible and must be edited manually. Main difference seem to be the version numbers in the file saved from yast2, while autoyast only uses the paket names without versions. Maybe one can add an option in yast2 to save paket selection for autoyast. Usually when you get a new SuSE version, you edit the paket selection on a test host with yast2, save it, and then want to insert it into your autoyast files... 3) It would be nice if you could include special kernel packages to be used outside of the general package repository, just like you could in autoyast1. That's because we often change the kernel to be used to the latest release from SuSE, but we would like to keep our install source unchanged, i.e., keep the 1:1 copy from the DVD as install source and just add a special kernel in some other directory. This was nice how it was done in autoyast1/ 4) Something like this would be nice in rules.xml: <karch> <operator>or</operator> <match>k_deflt</match> <match_type>exact</match_type> </karch> <karch> <operator>or</operator> <match>k_athlon</match> <match_type>exact</match_type> </karch> <result>...</result> for e.g. selection the same kernel package for k_deflt and k_athlon architectures. But it is not possible, because one cannot specify <karch> twice with "or". 5) Please bring back that fstab-search feature :-) It was one of the most powerful things autoyast1 could do. Now I have to create a partition profile for each host from the existing fstab (we have about 20 different partition configurations) and add all of them info the rules file. To tell autoyast "leave everything as it was if you find a fstab and just format / and /boot" was a great feature... 6) I would like to specify a rule without condition in rules.xml. Reason is to add a general profile from which all hosts start, and then add extension by testing certain conditions. But for a starting profile, no condition is needed. This would also make it easier to keep the profiles small. You could have a profile file containing all the scripts, one for all the network stuff, and then just add a few profiles in rules.xml without condititions. Sth. like - add general profile - add scripts profile - add network profile - now start to add some stuff conditionally... 7) The script feature again: It would be very nice if you could find a way to allow external scripts to be called directly from autoyast. This would help, because now you write post-install scripts, test them, edit them, then insert all the code into an xml file. Now, sth. goes wrong, you test again, and now the danger is that the script code in the xml file and the external script get inconsistent easily. Autoyast1 user to have that $I- Variable, pointing to the install source, so we just had created a SCRIPTS subdirectory unter the suse dir from the install source, and called all the scripts from there. Would it be difficult to add such a reference variable/tag in autoyast2, too? So that you can do anything on the install source, like call the scripts? 8) When using several profiles in rules.xml, it would be nice if you could specify in every profile (or with every tag) what should be merged and what should be overwritten. Sometimes you might want to redefine the whole <network> section, sometimes you might only want to add a second interface. So, e.g. sth. like <networking> <redefine> <dns> ... </dns> </redefine> <add> <interfaces config:type="list"> <interface> .. </interface> </interfaces> </add> </networking> should overwrite *all* dns specications used before, but *add* the interface specifications to all the interface stuff defined before. This would be very powerful, but I guess it would be hard to implement... 9) An easy way to add general includes would be nice. The entity include mechanism does not work in rules.xml. As we have to specify about 40 partition rules (depending on the IP and the type), we would like to use a separate file for this and include it to keep rules.xml small. 10) It would be nice if the value matched in a <match> tag in rules.xml could be referenced in the result section. Then one could e.g. match the IP in the match tag and use "profile-$ip.xml" as result. So with one rule you could add a special profile for each host by just adding a file "profile-xxx.xxx.xx.xxx.xml" in the profile subdir. 11) A match variable for hostname would be nice. It is available from dhcp, so it would be nice if you could match it. Yes, I know, a long list :-)) However, it is not that we don't like AY2 here at all ;-) It resolved many of the problems that we had with AY1 and we really like the new features. However, some of features above would greatly enhance it :-) cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: -4054 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *

3 6

grub menu.lst without entry for floppy
by Jan-Marc Pilawa 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

Hello List, as I understood autoinstall: it tries to find all "valid" bootable devices and adds them to grubs menu. My question: Is it possible to disable the apperance of the "Floppy chainloader" without explicit partitioning and configuration of the bootloder? I have several Machines with a dual-boot configuration and I won't loose the flexibility of "auto-everything ;-)" in autoinstall. Best Regards Jan Pilawa. -- + Kontakt ----------------------------------------------------+ + Systembetreuung Rechenzentrum TU Braunschweig + + Hans-Sommer-Str. 65, D-38092 Braunschweig + + Tel: +49 531 391-5548 Mail: j.pilawa(a)tu-bs.de ______________+

1 0

Re: [suse-autoinstall] Static IP problem
by Jeff Crow 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Leen, Thanks for the help. That did the trick! Jeff >>> Leendert Meyer <leen.meyer(a)home.nl> 3/25/2004 5:55:38 PM >>> On Thursday 25 March 2004 21:39, Jeff Crow wrote: > First a bit of background information. I am auto-installing SuSE Linux > (multiple versions, SLES 8, 9.0, etc.) vi HTTP. During the autoinstall > process I am using DHCP, ie when the machine first boots up it gets > assigned an address. However, during install I assign the machine a > static ip address, which is set up in the configuration file. > > Now the problem. After the sucessful completion of installation when I > log into the machine, the network interface is not configured with the > static IP address, but with a dynamic one. That's the IP# the install process gets. It is a dynamic IP#. > I can see this through ifconfig. If I reboot the machine, then the > static IP address gets bound to the NIC and everything is fine. Yes. Interface goes down, pc reboots, interface requests IP#... > I do have the 'Reboot after Installation' set to true ( <reboot > config:type="boolean">true</reboot> ). I do not think that's neccessary. Run a script at a convenient point that does a ifdown/ifup sequence: ifdown interface eth0 ifup interface eth0 Hmmm... now I think of it... as the system boots up /for the first time/, it goes through all the init-scripts, right? If so, perhaps a simple "ifdown interface eth0" before initial booting would be sufficient. Cheers, Leen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help(a)suse.com

1 0

autoinst
by Manuel.Laesser＠telekurs.com 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Hello today I tried to create my first CD using autoyasts option "Create ISO Image" in Media Management Section. After selecting the desired xml-file it gathers all rpms....so far so good. After this the iso image will be created. After 99% the status bar doesn't move anymore and I have to click on cancel (...hmmm....), but the iso image will be created and I can mount it with "-o loop....". I copy the mounted iso image to a directory, add some directories where my scripts and additional software resides and also delete some files I don't want to have on the CD (autorun.sh, COPYRIGHT, COPYING.tex....) I then create a new iso image with sles8:/usr/local/SuSE/current # mkisofs -V SU -J -R -o /home/tklsa/suse_TK_260304.iso -b boot/loader/isolinux.bin -no-emul-boo -boot-load-size 4 /home/tklsa/suse_260304ul-boo -boot-load-size 4 /home/tklsa/suse_260304 My new iso image with will be created. If I insert it into the server and boot the system I've got the following error message: ISOLINUX 1.62 0x3db44759 isolinux: Image checksum error, sorry Boot failed: press a key to retry... I didn't try to burn the iso image created by autoyast to a CD and boot the system with it. I don't know if the CD doesn't boot anymore because I added/deleted files from the original iso image and created a new one. Does anyone have some experiences with the same process? I'm using SLES8 and autoyast2-2.6.44-7 Thank you very much for your help. Mit freundlichen Grüssen, Manuel Laesser ----------------------------------------------------------- Telekurs Services Hardturmstrasse 201, 8005 Zürich Phone : +41 1 279 44 24 Fax : +41 1 279 34 44 mailto : manuel.laesser(a)telekurs.com -----------------------------------------------------------

1 1

[suse-autoinstall] inability to update
by Alexander A Klimenko 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

Every time I try to connect to various centers to update I get the following error message: Patch: xf86tools-44811 I am connected to the Internet via a Motorola CyberSurfr Wav cable modem through noos.fr. My browser works fine and I have no problem with mail. If anyone can help me here, I'd be much obliged. Alexander A Klimenko --

1 0

[suse-autoinstall] inability to update
by Alexander A Klimenko 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

1 0

Static IP problem
by Jeff Crow 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

First a bit of background information. I am auto-installing SuSE Linux (multiple versions, SLES 8, 9.0, etc.) vi HTTP. During the autoinstall process I am using DHCP, ie when the machine first boots up it gets assigned an address. However, during install I assign the machine a static ip address, which is set up in the configuration file. Now the problem. After the sucessful completion of installation when I log into the machine, the network interface is not configured with the static IP address, but with a dynamic one. I can see this through ifconfig. If I reboot the machine, then the static IP address gets bound to the NIC and everything is fine. I do have the 'Reboot after Installation' set to true ( <reboot config:type="boolean">true</reboot> ). Does anyone have an idea why this is happening and what I can do to resolve this so that the machine has the correct static IP address after installation? Thank you very much, Jeff Crow

2 1

Re: [suse-autoinstall] Newbie help wanted for installing java on suse 9
by Andy W. Barclay 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

Hi Frederic, This is the wrong forum for this question, but I'm sure I saw an answer to your question on the linuxquestions.org website. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=161929&h… Frederic Durodie wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a bit new to linux and to SuSE (home user) and I try to install > java by > executing the file 'j2re-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin' which I downloaded from > www.java.com. I have now a directory /usr/local/java/j2re1.4.2_04. How > do I > get from there to java working under Konqueror ? Also in the end I > want to > run LimeWire. > > Thanks up front for all help, > Kind regards, > Frederic >

1 0

Newbie help wanted for installing java on suse 9
by Frederic Durodie 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

Hi, I'm a bit new to linux and to SuSE (home user) and I try to install java by executing the file 'j2re-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin' which I downloaded from www.java.com. I have now a directory /usr/local/java/j2re1.4.2_04. How do I get from there to java working under Konqueror ? Also in the end I want to run LimeWire. Thanks up front for all help, Kind regards, Frederic

1 0

/boot & ext3, grub, swap
by Manuel.Laesser＠telekurs.com 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

Hello I've got three questions 1. If I create a own filesystem for /boot It's always ext2 even if got ext3 specified in the autoinst.xml Workaround: Use tune2fs -j .... after Installation (post script) 2. Even I've got a autoinst.xml from Karl-Walter Grabbe which should install grub instead of lilo, I still have lilo installed after the unattendand installation. Below an extract of the bootloader section from Karl-Walter <bootloader> <loader_type>grub</loader_type> <specific> <activate config:type="boolean">true</activate> <grub_conf> <addr>0x8000</addr> <device>(null)</device> <discswitch config:type="boolean">true</discswitch> <menu>/boot/grub/menu.lst</menu> <s2prefix>--stage2=/boot/grub/stage2</s2prefix> <stage1>/boot/grub/stage1</stage1> <stage2>/boot/grub/stage2</stage2> </grub_conf> <repl_mbr config:type="boolean">false</repl_mbr> </specific> </bootloader> Some people told me to use a post script again to remove lilo and install and configure grub. But when I do this by hand I'll receive the following error messages: ************************** grub> root (hd0,0) Error 21: Selected disk does not exist grub> install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 0xgrub> install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 / grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 0x8grub> install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 0x8grub> .... Error 12: Invalid device requested grub> quit ************************** 3. If I use LVM in my xml file the swap partition will be created but I don't have any entry in /etc/fstab. Therefore a swap partition will never be activated. After I put the statement in /etc/fstab, made a mkswap /dev/systemvg/swap and swapon -a the swap partition is available. Unfortunately only for a short period of time because after about 10 minutes I receive a Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/hda5 (deleted) partition 248968 2044 42 if I execute swapon -s. What does this "deleted" mean? Has this got a bad impact on my installation? Thank you very much for your help. Mit freundlichen Grüssen, Manuel Laesser ----------------------------------------------------------- Telekurs Services Hardturmstrasse 201, 8005 Zürich Phone : +41 1 279 44 24 Fax : +41 1 279 34 44 mailto : manuel.laesser(a)telekurs.com -----------------------------------------------------------

2 1

SLES9beta1 suspended-data signature
by Dustin Kirkland 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Hi- I'm porting my SuSE Autoinstallation scripts to SLES9beta1. The installation seems to work fine until the first reboot. This causes the following error: resuming from /dev/hda5 Resuming from device hda5 Kernel panic: Resume Machine: Unable to find suspended-data signature ( - misspelled? Suggestions? Dustin

2 1

Partitioning question
by Daniel Groscost 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Hello, I am trying to configure autoyast2 (autoinst.xml) to automatically use the partitions that I have created (but not formatted yet) with a pre-install script. This will be used for mass staging purposes. I intend to have three primary partitions: /dev/hda is the device. /dev/hda1 will mount to /boot - approx 100MB. Needs to be formatted reiser. /dev/hda2 will mount to / - MAX SIZE (total size minus swap size). Needs to be formatted reiser. /dev/hda3 will be swap (memory*2). Format swap. I'm calculating the hard drive figures inside of the pre-install script so I just need autoyast to just accept the drive configuration the way it is, format the partitions, and go on with the install. I've read through the advanced partitioning but each time I attempt to run through an install I get a response in autoyast saying ERROR: No proposal. Is there an easier way of accomplishing this? Below is the partitioning section of my autoinst.xml: <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <filesystem>reiser</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>/boot</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">83</partition_id> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <filesystem>reiser</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>/</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">83</partition_id> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>swap</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">82</partition_id> </partition> </partitions> </drive> </partitioning> Any help is appreciated. Thanks, > Daniel J. Groscost MCSA Windows Server 2003 > Systems Engineer > > Datavantage Corporation a wholly-owned subsidiary of MICROS Systems, Inc. > 6573 Cochran Rd., Suite L > Cleveland, OH 44139 > Tel: (440)498/4419 x265 > Fax: (440)498/4430 > Email: dgroscost(a)datavantagecorp.com > Web: http://www.datavantagecorp.com >

1 0

Does automatic control file ffind work for NFS?
by "Müller, Folkhard" 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Hi everybody, I use autoyast2-2.8.14-20 and try to install Suse 9.0 to a couple of Workstations I use the grubfloppy from Anas's Website to boot the system to be installed. This is my menus.lst for the grubfloopy ---snip title autoinstall-bootp bootp tftpserver 172.18.127.43 root (nd) kernel (nd)/opt/ignite/linux install=nfs://172.18.127.126/.home/install/suse9.0/DVD1 autoyast=nfs://172.18.127.126/var/lib/autoinstall/repository initrd (nd)/opt/ignite/initrd --snap on 172.18.127.126 the installation server ll /var/lib/autoinstall/repository drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 272 Mar 23 09:33 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 128 Nov 14 2005 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 390 Mar 22 18:07 AC127F57 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 390 Mar 22 17:53 AC127F8C drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 Mar 22 17:47 classes lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 22 18:07 hatti -> AC127F57 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Sep 24 20:44 rules drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Sep 24 20:44 templates AC127F57 is HEX for 172.18.127.87 which is the TCP/IP of the client booted with the grubfloppy. ->My test system boots stage2 successfull ->Loads the kernel and initrd via tftp from the tftpserver 172.18.127.43. ->starts thekernel ->starts linuxrc 1.5 ->starts yast2 for automated install mounts the installation source But yast2 does not find the controlfile for autoyast The control file is available as: see above. The system to be installed ends up in a yast2 mask where the server and mountpoint of the controllfile is displayed as told to yast2 by the autoyast= statement to the kernel. (this shows the 'control file repository' is known!) If I extend the repository path by AC127F57 and hit enter the installation rolls on as expected. This shows that NFS works for 172.18.127.126/var/lib/autoinstall/repository. It seems as if the autochoose feature of the control file fails for a reson I cannot see! The /var/log/message file on the Installation server (172.18.127.126) shows, that no trial to mount /var/lib/autoinstall/repository is done,however, /.home/install/suse9.0/DVD1 is mounted succesfully. Only after I extend the repository path by the control file's name the nfs mount is done as seen in messages on the installation server. Does anybody can help ? -- Dipl. Phys. F.Mueller EPCOS AG Surface Acoustic Wave Components Division SAW RD EDA IS P.O. Box 80 17 09 Phone: ++49 89 636 23316 D-81617 Munich Fax: ++49 89 636 27304 Germany mailto: Folkhard.Mueller(a)epcos.com Web: http://www.epcos.com

2 2

Causing a partition to _not_ be mounted?
by Anton Altaparmakov 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Hi, We are using autoyast2-2.8.14-68 (SUSE 9.0) to automatically install machines over the network. The machines have an existing NTFS partition which we do not want to touch. autoyast removes the other partitions and creates them as Linux ones. This all works fine. However, after the system is installed the NTFS partition is found in /etc/fstab like so: /dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=iso8859-1 0 0 But we don't want to have this in /etc/fstab! Is it possible to not create the fstab entry for this partition? If yes, how could this be done? If you want to see our autoinst.xml, I have made it available here: http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/linux/autoinst.xml Thanks a lot in advance! Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

1 0

Error saving bootloader configuration
by Kfir Lavi 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Hi all, I'm trying to install SLES 8.0 for AMD64. Before the end of the installation i get this error: "An error occurred during saving bootloader configuration". In the end of the email i have included the bootloader section from linuxrc file. Important: I'm using pxe install. It works perfect with SUSE 9.0 AMD64 installation on the same computer, but with SLES 8.0 the installation didn't got DHCP after the kernel finished loading, and no manual config helped (module for nic installed good). I have seen that SUSE 9.0 have installer ver 1.5 and SLES 8.0 have ver 1.4, so i used the linux and initrd files from the SUSE 9.0 dvd. Now the installation works good, part of this boot loader issue. <snip>linuxrc<snip> <bootloader> <loader_device>/dev/hda</loader_device> <loader_type>grub</loader_type> <location>mbr</location> <specific> <activate config:type="boolean">false</activate> <device_map config:type="list"> <device_map_entry config:type="list"> <device>(hd0)</device> <device>/dev/hda</device> </device_map_entry> </device_map> <global config:type="list"> <listentry> <changed config:type="boolean">true</changed> <key>__intern__</key> <value> <changed_opts config:type="list"> <listentry>__location</listentry> </changed_opts> </value> </listentry> </global> <grub_conf> <addr>0x8000</addr> <device>(null)</device> <discswitch config:type="boolean">true</discswitch> <menu>/boot/grub/menu.lst</menu> <prefix>--stage2=/boot/grub/stage2</prefix> <stage1>/boot/grub/stage1</stage1> <stage2>/boot/grub/stage2</stage2> </grub_conf> <repl_mbr config:type="boolean">false</repl_mbr> <sections config:type="list"/> </specific> <write_settings/> </bootloader>

1 0

Creating ISO-Images from multiple sources
by Otto Bommer 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

Hi, I am using AutoYast from SuSE Professional 9.0 to install PC's with some standard configuration (Minimal+X11) plus additional specific .rpm's and configuration files. This works pretty well when I do the installation over the net: My current procedure: - Installation of SuSE9.0 over the net with bootp, tftp, PXELINUX with an AutoYast-Configuration - The AutoYast-Packet-Selection is based on 2 Installation-Sources 1. SuSE 9.0 dir:///store/SuSE/i386/9.0 2. nfs://InstallationServer//store/RPMS - Update of installed system with YOU 1st question/problem: When I want to create an ISO-Image based on this configuration AutoYast doesn't find the second installation source ;-( 2nd question/problem: I would like to include the updated rpm-packages from the YOU-Server into the installation procedure, so I wouldn't have to run YOU after the installation procedure. Is it possible to do this? Thanks in advance Otto Bommer

1 0

Building patch RPM updates .patch.rpm files
by IT Staff 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

Hello We are trying to build SuSE-compatible patch RPM updates (.patch.rpm files) in order to maintain quicker our home made RPM packages on our servers via the yast online_update utility. Is it possible to create such .patch.rpm files and what is the procedure ? Thanks in advance Kind regards

1 0

Newbies Installing 9.0
by suse＠mniceguy.privasend.com 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

I've got a computer store guy who's doing an upgrade on my computer. He knows practically nothing about Linux but wants to learn. I've used Mandrake 8 & RHL 9, but only know a little, graphical basic stuff. Goal is dual-boot WinXP and SUSE 9.0 Personal, which I bought at retail in a box. Is there anything we/he need to know/do other than insert the disc after he installs XP and assume/hope YAST will prompt...? Should we check compatibility, do other stuff first, panic about something else??? I *really* appreciate your help. -M!

3 2

if conditions in XML-File
by Manuel.Laesser＠telekurs.com 21 Mar '04

21 Mar '04

Hello is it possible to have "if-else conditions" statements in the autoinst.xml file. I would like to create a swap partition which is two times larger then available memory but neverlarger then 2GB. How could I solve this issue with autoyast? Does anyone has a good idea? Sorry for asking so many questions but you already helped me a lot! Thank you so much! Regards Manuel Mit freundlichen Grüssen, Manuel Laesser ----------------------------------------------------------- Telekurs Services Hardturmstrasse 201, 8005 Zürich Phone : +41 1 279 44 24 Fax : +41 1 279 34 44 mailto : manuel.laesser(a)telekurs.com -----------------------------------------------------------

1 0

Installing Linux
by Florian Schödel 20 Mar '04

20 Mar '04

Hi together, I want to install SuSE Linux 9.0 on my "targa visionary" notebook "xp-210". There ist just a problem: When the message "Analysiere Festplatte" ("analysing hard disks...") appears on the screen it doesn't complete the action. After 5 minutes I break up by pressing the power button because ctrl-alt-del doesn't work anymore. There is a toshiba hard drive I want to install linux on. The first partition contains w i n x p. If I select "Safe settings" from the boot screen, which appears when I start from the CD, the system will be frozen on detecting the pcmcia devices. Is this a known problem with this notebook or could I change any configuration? The hard drive was detected as a udma 5 drive by the bios. Thanks for your help Florian

1 0

Autoinstall and Network Installation prompting for CD rom
by RANGI, JAI 19 Mar '04

19 Mar '04

Hi I am trying to build Beowulf Type of cluster using Suse 9.0 64 bit processor. I installed all the softwares and have done all the configuration on one node, from there I made the exact copy of that node using autoyast tool. As we want all the nodes of the same type and all the nodes have same hardware architecture. Copy the autoinst.xml file /tftpboot/suse9.0/autoinst.xml-nodename (sd* in our case). Copy the installation DVD into /tftpboot/suse9.0 directory. Which is also NFS partition. Copy pxelinx.0 (LATEST, I know there is problem with pxelinux.0 that came with suse 9.0) in /tftpboot/suse9.0 Copy Linux and initrd from /tftpboot/suse9.0/boot/loader to /tftpboot/suse9.0/ Create default file in /tftpboot/suse9.0/pxelinux.cfg/C0A8016C (For IP 192.168.1.108 and same for other nodes) Here is what the default file (C0A8016C) looks like default Linux label Linux kernel linux append init=/linuxrc load_ramdisk=1 initrd=initrd root=/dev/ram insmod=bcm5700 netdevice=eth0 insmod=mptbase autoyast=nfs://192.168.1.1/autoinst.xml-sd6 install=nfs://192.168.1.1/ Now I boot the client machine using pxe boot and it boots, it gets the IP address reads the configuration file C0A8016C and says Missing Parameter in Config File.. Missing Parameter in config File.. and start the installation BUT this is what I get after loading modules.... ////////////////////////// Looking for Suse Linux CD.. Checking device /dev/hdc Ok, That didn't work See if we can activate another storage device Insmod mptbase Opps That didn't work, no further storage device found, giving up... Automatic Setup not possible ........///////////////// And it ask for the installation CD. Seems like the network card is not configure and it have problem with communication with NSF server, even though Network card got the fixed IP from DHCP server... Also from here If I go manually and try to load modules for network card which is bcm5700 it fails... Any idea what I might be doing wrong.... I have read so much on the mailing list archive but could not find any solution.... Thank You Jai Rangi Unix System Administrator, Computing Services, South Dakota State University Brookings SD 57006. email: jai_rangi(a)sdstate.edu Ph: 605 688 4689 Fax: 6056884605 ------------------------------------------------------- In the world with no fences, why would you need Gates ? - Linux -------------------------------------------------------

1 0

autoinstall with LVM, GRUB, SWAP
by Manuel.Laesser＠telekurs.com 19 Mar '04

19 Mar '04

Hello, I've got the following questions. 1. Is there a possibility in the autoinst.mxl to deselect lilo explicit so it won't be installed. I can't find a lilo statement in my package section but the rpm still will be installed. I got a hint from a friend. He told me that I should deselct lilo explicit in the autoinstall.xml. Is there a way to do this? Could this be a valuable way of having GRUB instead of LILO. If I understood Anas statement, then it's not possible to have GRUB if LVM is used with an autoinstall. Is there any workaround? Can I migrate from LILO to GRUB using a post installation script? 2. If you use LVM and create a logical volume for /, /home, /usr and swap the swap partition isn't activated and there is no entry in /etc/fstab but the logical volume exists. After I put the entry in /etc/fstab and made a mkswap, swapon -a the swap space was available. 10 minutes later I checkd with swapon -s or cat /proc/swaps and it was saying that the swap space was deleted??!! Did anyone receive a similar message? Thank you very much for your answer. I'm a little bit depressed, because I still have no concept how I can carry out my degree dissertation.....and time is bloody short!! :-( Regards Manuel

1 0