April 2004 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Automatische Größe bei logischen Laufwerken?
by Hartmut.Dunker＠finanzit.com 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Hello, i want to create logical volumes with AutoYast2. The last volume should use the remaining place of the Volume group. Is this possible? How is the Syntax for this? I wasn't able to find a reference including the syntax with possible parameters and values. Is there any one avalable? I tried following: <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/cciss/c0d0</device> <reuse>all</reuse> <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize> <partitions config:type="list"> [...] <partition> <size>max</size> <lvm_group>datavg</lvm_group> </partition> </partitions> </drive> </partitioning> <lvm config:type="list"> <lvm_group> <lvm_name>datavg</lvm_name> <pesize>4M</pesize> <logical_volumes config:type="list"> [...] <lv> <lv_name>datalv</lv_name> <lv_size>max</lv_size> <lv_fs>ext3</lv_fs> <lv_mount>/data</lv_mount> </lv> </logical_volumes> </lvm_group> </lvm> When reaching datalv AutoYast2 stops with an error message - it seams AutoYast2 don't like the value max for lv_size... Regards Hartmut Dunker

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Antwort: [suse-autoinstall] Automatische=?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=F6=DFe_bei_logischen_Laufwerken=3F?=
by Hartmut.Dunker＠finanzit.com 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Hello, i didn't remember that this is an english mailinglist. Sorry. I opened a new thread in english. Regards Hartmut Dunker

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Suse 9.0: Help for Autoyast via FTP server
by Support Idea-Net Consulting & Web Solutions 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

Hi, I'm begin to describe my network/server configuration: ******************** server configuration ******************** ip: 192.168.2.10 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.2.1 ftp user: hotspot pass: xxx directory on ftp server: /_ |- profiles/_ | |_ default (autoinst.xml renamed in default for multiple | profiles) |_ suse/_ |- boot/ |- docu/ |- dosutils/ |- media.1/ |- suse/ |_ unsorted/ ************************ linux.config on boot.iso ************************ I wrote in to linuxrc.config on boot.iso this following parameters: KernelPCMCIA: 1 UseUSBSCSI: 1 Product: SuSE Linux Display: Color InstMode: ftp Server: 192.168.2.10 Serverdir: suse Netdevice: eth0 Insmod: 3c59x Username: hotspot Password: xxx HostIp: 192.168.2.254 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.2.1 AutoYast: ftp://192.168.2.10/profiles/ and after I have burned the cd ********** My problem ********** I boot the client with my cd bootable, yast2 starting, load the network configuration from linuxrc.config and log on the ftp server with my user "hotspot". Read the profile ("default" file), run the yast2 GUI interface and configure the language selection. Via Ethereal I sow that's works fine, but in the second step named "Installation Setting" of yast2 GUI, the autoyast prompt me a windows where are the message: "Profile for this machine could not be founde o retrieved. Please make sure you have specified the correct location on the command line" Any idea? I have renamed the default file in autoinst.xml and changed in the linuxrc.config the parameter, but I receive always the same error. Thank you Luca Lafranchi

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AutoInstall on small memory systems
by Lee Mayes 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

I'm using some old hardware (and vmware instances) to verify some SuSE 9.0 autoinstalls. Some only have 128MB of RAM. While I wouldn't attempt to run any production services on these boxes, they're a good test of my final scripts and processes. I've run across a problem in the way the rpm's are installed using a network (http) source. By pushing a virtual console during the actual install, it appears that the rpm command is caching the rpm to be installed in / (the ramfs) vs. the mounted hardrive. So basically, this limits the size of an rpm that can be installed from a network source to roughly Physical Ram - ( kernel + cramfs installer ram footprint), which works out to roughly 52MB on a 128M system. With less than 128M there are other concerns, so that's my bare minimum for testing installs. Is there a switch I can pass AutoYaST2 somewhere to have it use the installing system's mounted /var/tmp vs. the ramfs? There are some pretty big RPM's out there, like OpenOffice (who's integration I need to test :^). Thanks, I realize this is a corner case most people would never hit on modern hardware (HTTP install + 128M RAM). Lee

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RE: [suse-autoinstall] Saving packages...
by Ness, Todd 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Thank you that is a thought, I was hoping that there was a install flag that tells the installer to keep the rpm when installing. Much like redcarpet has for not clearing the cache. -----Original Message----- From: Lenz, Fabian [mailto:Fabian.Lenz@telekom.de] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 6:44 AM To: todd.ness(a)eds.com; suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com Subject: AW: [suse-autoinstall] Saving packages... Hello! You can mount the installmedium an copy the rpm´s on the disk with a preinstall-script. Fabian Lenz Azb Fachinformatiker für Systemintegration Deutsche Telekom AG Telekom Training BBi Koblenz Hausadresse: Blücherstr. 6-8, 56073 Koblenz Postanschrift: Postfach 9100, 56065 Koblenz Telefon (mobil): +49 (160) 3565851 E-Mail: mailto:Fabian.Lenz@telekom.de Intranet: http://ttc.telekom.de/ -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Ness, Todd [mailto:todd.ness@eds.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. April 2004 14:33 An: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com Betreff: [suse-autoinstall] Saving packages... Is there a way to save the rpms that are being installed during autoinstall to the local disk? For example: If I save every rpm I install and I save a special initrd and autoinst.xml saved on the machine I could have a re-install option on the boot menu that a user could re-image his machine if he broke it too badly and could not get remote support. Todd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help(a)suse.com

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AW: [suse-autoinstall] Saving packages...
by Lenz, Fabian 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Hello! You can mount the installmedium an copy the rpm´s on the disk with a preinstall-script. Fabian Lenz Azb Fachinformatiker für Systemintegration Deutsche Telekom AG Telekom Training BBi Koblenz Hausadresse: Blücherstr. 6-8, 56073 Koblenz Postanschrift: Postfach 9100, 56065 Koblenz Telefon (mobil): +49 (160) 3565851 E-Mail: mailto:Fabian.Lenz@telekom.de Intranet: http://ttc.telekom.de/ -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Ness, Todd [mailto:todd.ness@eds.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. April 2004 14:33 An: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com Betreff: [suse-autoinstall] Saving packages... Is there a way to save the rpms that are being installed during autoinstall to the local disk? For example: If I save every rpm I install and I save a special initrd and autoinst.xml saved on the machine I could have a re-install option on the boot menu that a user could re-image his machine if he broke it too badly and could not get remote support. Todd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help(a)suse.com

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Saving packages...
by Ness, Todd 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Is there a way to save the rpms that are being installed during autoinstall to the local disk? For example: If I save every rpm I install and I save a special initrd and autoinst.xml saved on the machine I could have a re-install option on the boot menu that a user could re-image his machine if he broke it too badly and could not get remote support. Todd

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Suse 9.0 on Raid mirror - include external driver module
by Eveline Bernard 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Please help me install Suse 9 on a new Raid system! It is driving me MAD! I noticed several unsolved issues on this newsforum, about Raid, External modules. Please let some more experienced Linux crack dive into it and solve it, I'm a newbe on Linux. The Yast2 should ask for the external driver module, but it does not. Hèèlup! My system is Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard with Promise FasTrak 378 controller. I attached two Maxtor 80 GB SATA disks in Raid mirror configuration. The system has also an Adaptec 2940 SCSi controller, with Plextor CD-Writer and Iomega Zip 100 drive attached. And to the on-board USB 2.0 controller an multimedia card reader is attached. There is an Plextor DVD RW on the EIDE controller. I partitioned the Raid disks in 3 NTFS and 1 Ext3 partition. On one NTFS partition Windows 2000 is succesfully running. I want to install Suse 9.0 on an ext3 partition. I downloaded the file 1_ft3xssb19.zip file, containing the FasTrack S150 TX2plus driver for Suse 9.0 from Promise, since the FasTrak 378 OEM controller is the same, according to Promise. I unpacked it and put it on a floppy disk, as the manual says. I put the Suse 9.0 CD #1 in the CD drive, start the PC. The system boots from the CD, while I press the F3 key (as the manual says to do) The Suse Installation screen appears and I Enter on the option "Installation". @@@>The YASt2 should now ask for the floppy. But it does not!<@@@ It does not matter if I insert the floppy before or afterwards. The diskette is read for a second, when inserted. But the module seems not toe be loaded. I tried again with a diskette where the driver module is in the root - no result either. Yast2 does not find my Raid disks, whatever I try. (Error) So Yast givess no configuration proposal. I also tried left Alt key instead of F3 key. I also tried "Installation - safe settings" - no result I also installed "Installation" with ACPI = Off in the boot options - no result I also tried, after a no result installation effort, to click the button "cancel installation. A smaller Main menu window appears. I choose option "Start Installation / system" Then I push OK, select Installation, and Ok again, a menu appears: choose source medium. But choices are CD-Rom, Network, Hard disk When I choose Harddisk I can fill in several partitions. Not any of my choices had result: "error could not mount the specified partition" When I choose CD-Rom and have the F3 key pressed the same useless round starts, with one difference: there is a window asking "confirm driver activation" "Yast2 has detected the following device: Promise Technology Inc (Asustek Computer Inc) Driver module to load" and then there is a window with "pdcraid" I can click OK or cancel. Both to no result. On OK I get a similar window about usb storage and then another one about sbp2 protocol. What should I do wih these? Do I have to enter something? The whole thing drives me raving mad. Please help.. Eveline Bernard 'Denkster'

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] Suse 9.0 on Raid mirror - include external driver module
by Harald.Milz＠computacenter.com 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Is it just me or is this forum more and more used as a generic SuSE support list? 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 E-Mail : Harald.Milz(a)computacenter.com Visit us on the Internet: http://www.computacenter.com Visit our Online-Shop: http://www.compunet.de/connect This email is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not disclose or use the information contained in it. If you have received this mail in error, please tell us immediately by return email and delete the document. suse-autoinstall-return-1815-harald.milz=computacenter.com(a)suse.com on 14.04.2004 18:27:33 To: <suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com> cc: Subject: [suse-autoinstall] Suse 9.0 on Raid mirror - include external driver module -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please help me install Suse 9 on a new Raid system! It is driving me MAD! I noticed several unsolved issues on this newsforum, about Raid, External modules. Please let some more experienced Linux crack dive into it and solve it, I'm a newbe on Linux. The Yast2 should ask for the external driver module, but it does not. Hèèlup! My system is Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard with Promise FasTrak 378 controller. I attached two Maxtor 80 GB SATA disks in Raid mirror configuration. The system has also an Adaptec 2940 SCSi controller, with Plextor CD-Writer and Iomega Zip 100 drive attached. And to the on-board USB 2.0 controller an multimedia card reader is attached. There is an Plextor DVD RW on the EIDE controller. I partitioned the Raid disks in 3 NTFS and 1 Ext3 partition. On one NTFS partition Windows 2000 is succesfully running. I want to install Suse 9.0 on an ext3 partition. I downloaded the file 1_ft3xssb19.zip file, containing the FasTrack S150 TX2plus driver for Suse 9.0 from Promise, since the FasTrak 378 OEM controller is the same, according to Promise. I unpacked it and put it on a floppy disk, as the manual says. I put the Suse 9.0 CD #1 in the CD drive, start the PC. The system boots from the CD, while I press the F3 key (as the manual says to do) The Suse Installation screen appears and I Enter on the option "Installation". @@@>The YASt2 should now ask for the floppy. But it does not!<@@@ It does not matter if I insert the floppy before or afterwards. The diskette is read for a second, when inserted. But the module seems not toe be loaded. I tried again with a diskette where the driver module is in the root - no result either. Yast2 does not find my Raid disks, whatever I try. (Error) So Yast givess no configuration proposal. I also tried left Alt key instead of F3 key. I also tried "Installation - safe settings" - no result I also installed "Installation" with ACPI = Off in the boot options - no result I also tried, after a no result installation effort, to click the button "cancel installation. A smaller Main menu window appears. I choose option "Start Installation / system" Then I push OK, select Installation, and Ok again, a menu appears: choose source medium. But choices are CD-Rom, Network, Hard disk When I choose Harddisk I can fill in several partitions. Not any of my choices had result: "error could not mount the specified partition" When I choose CD-Rom and have the F3 key pressed the same useless round starts, with one difference: there is a window asking "confirm driver activation" "Yast2 has detected the following device: Promise Technology Inc (Asustek Computer Inc) Driver module to load" and then there is a window with "pdcraid" I can click OK or cancel. Both to no result. On OK I get a similar window about usb storage and then another one about sbp2 protocol. What should I do wih these? Do I have to enter something? The whole thing drives me raving mad. Please help.. Eveline Bernard 'Denkster'

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Excuse me. I accidentely reported a non-spam
by Eveline Bernard 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

I want to apologize. I accidentely reported a message as spam, which is not (see below). Can you correct this and please excuse me. thanks, Eveline Bernard The falsely reported message Return-Path: <suse-autoinstall-return-1817-ebernard=denkster.nl(a)suse.com> Received: from viruscheck1.xs4all.nl (viruscheck1.xs4all.nl [194.109.20.101]) by maildrop10.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i3EKUOCi011156 for <popde493(a)xs4all.nl>; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:30:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mxzilla7.xs4all.nl (mxzilla7.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.207]) by viruscheck1.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i3EKUNHR016343 for <popde493(a)viruscheck.xs4all.nl>; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:30:23 +0200 (CEST) X-XS4ALL-DNSBL-Checked: mxzilla7.xs4all.nl checked 195.135.221.131 against DNS blacklists X-XS4ALL-Pad: empty Received: from lists.suse.com (lists.suse.com [195.135.221.131]) by mxzilla7.xs4all.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i3EKUNAi084029 for <ebernard(a)denkster.nl>; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:30:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 5643 invoked by alias); 14 Apr 2004 20:30:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact suse-autoinstall-help(a)suse.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:suse-autoinstall@suse.com> List-Help: <mailto:suse-autoinstall-help@suse.com> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe-ebernard=denkster.nl@suse.com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:suse-autoinstall-subscribe@suse.com> X-Mailinglist: suse-autoinstall Delivered-To: mailing list suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com Received: (qmail 5633 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2004 20:30:20 -0000 Message-ID: <20040414202203.99773.qmail(a)web61301.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:22:03 -0700 (PDT) From: anna cheng <anna_cheng11(a)yahoo.com> To: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com MIME-Version: 1.0

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