January 2005 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Hard drive percentage and control file
by suse_list 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

Hi Is there any way to setup the control files in SUSE 9.2 Professional so that one can use percentages in the partition table?. Also i setup a control file manually after reading the autoyast manual posted on suseś website, but for some odd reason it doesn´t want to load it giving me the error that it can´t load the file. If i use a config file generateded by yast it works fine. What i am trying to do is have a control file that can select between multiple different profiles and then load those profiles. Any suggestions? here is what i have for the control file sofar: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE autoinstall SYSTEM "/usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/rules.dtd"> <autoinstall xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns"> <rules config:type="list"> <rule> <totaldisk> <match>80000-100000</match> <match_type>range</match_type> </totaldisk> <result> <profile>software_80GB.xml</profile> <continue config:type=¨boolean¨>false</continue> </result> </rule> <rule> <disksize> <match>/dev/hda 120000</match> <match_type>greater</match_type> </disksize> <result> <profile>software_120GB.xml</profile> <continue config:type=¨boolean¨>false</continue> </result> </rule> </rules> Please let me know Thanks S.

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AW:[suse-autoinstall] Installation Problems with SLES9 on AMD64 boxes
by p.slabiak＠linux-services.org 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

>I'm trying to auto install SLES9 on a x86_64 box. The same procedure works >on a x86 box but fails on the x86_64 box. The only difference between the >two is the installation location on isolinux.cfg. > >Here are the problems: > >1. At startup the installer says "You are trying to install 32 bit OS >on a 64 bit > machine". I've to press "Continue" to move to the next. I've >copied the files > (initrd, linux...) from the x86_64 loader CD, so I'm not sure why >I'm getting the > error. You must use the correct cd set for amd64 ;=)) > >2. After the config file is retrieved YAST proceeds and gets stuck on the > Software installation part. The error message is "Could not set base > installation: Minimal". What have you done with info.txt ? Move your info.txt to _info.txt and touch info.txt.This file must me there ! > >Here's the config entry > ><software> > <addons config:type="list"> > <addon>Base-System</addon> > <addon>YaST2</addon> > </addons> > <base>Minimal</base> > </software> > >Thanks >Andy > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe(a)suse.com >For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help(a)suse.com -- Linux Services Pawel Slabiak Systemingenieur mailto: p.slabiak(a)linux-services.org http://www.linux-services.org Linux Services - Dienste rund um Linux

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] Autoinstall AMD64 with SLES9
by cozypaul＠web.de 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

Anas Nashif <nashif(a)suse.de> schrieb am 14.01.05 05:23:14: > > Well, it seems the network device is not configured correctly. look on > the 3rd console and see if linuxrc complains and make sure you load the > right network module. > > Anas Thanks for your answer ;=).This steps i've already done before i wrote this mail. I also have made my on cd only with initrd, kernel, isolinux.cfg and isolinux.bin. It doesn't work ! :=(( Maybe bug in initrd 64Bit ...? Cozy Paul > > cozypaul(a)web.de wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I'm trying to install SLES9 on SunFire V40z with 4 CPU's and 8 GB RAM > > ;=)) (cool machine...). So far, so good. I 've some problems when i > > want to install vi network. I've boot from cd and put some parameters > > which i know from 32 Bit maschines. insmod=tg3 (for bcm5700) > > hostip=192.168.3.2/24 gateway=192.168.3.254 > > install=http://192.168.1.10/sles9a > > autoyast=http://192.168.1.10/install/amd.xml. The problem is that my > > client could not find this server, but when i use yast manually to > > find this server it works ! I really don't understand what's going > > on. Thank you very much for any advice... > > > > Greets > > > > Cozy Paul > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help(a)suse.com > __________________________________________________________ Mit WEB.DE FreePhone mit hoechster Qualitaet ab 0 Ct./Min. weltweit telefonieren! http://freephone.web.de/?mc=021201

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] Does AY support scsidev?
by Frank Steiner 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

Anas Nashif wrote > yes, it should. Are you having any issues? Ok, now we tried it and it doesn't work :-) The system is a IBM pSeries on which we already installed SLES9(ppc) via autoyast, but with giving <device>/dev/sda</device> in the profile. That worked fine. To test if works in general with our pSeries and SLES9, we put <device>/dev/scsi/sdh0-0c0i8l0</device> in the profile. But then autoyast tells us "The specified device is not available on the system" (or similar, our message is in german), when it fetches and reads the profiles from the nfs server. We got the scsi device path from looking at /dev/scsi/ and running "scsidev -s" when the host was running with sles9 and from. The path is correct, because we can mount the partitions on this disk with dev/scsi/sdh0-0c0i8l0p1 -p4. But checking the console output, I don't see any message that the installer started sth. like scsidev before starting yast, so I wonder how autoyast should know about /dev/scsi/..? 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: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *

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import a yast generated rpm list
by Reimar Bauer 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear all is there an easy way to include a list of rpm packages to the xml scripts for autoyast. The list of packages was creaqted by yast2. It starts with: ## YaST-PackageImEx 1.0-0 Or is there a chance to adjust an installation afterwards by such a file. cheers Reimar Bauer - -- Reimar Bauer Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-I) Forschungszentrum Juelich email: R.Bauer(a)fz-juelich.de - ------------------------------------------------------------------- ~ a IDL library at ForschungsZentrum Juelich ~ http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-i/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro.html =================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB5oDu5aOc3Q9hk/kRAmhgAJ41SllRk55XUq0ww15NsRPY8QJUEQCgpFqU T9pjLXmWrQWbTIRhYlIXYlA= =fd3O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Autoinstall AMD64 with SLES9
by cozypaul＠web.de 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

Hi everybody, I'm trying to install SLES9 on SunFire V40z with 4 CPU's and 8 GB RAM ;=)) (cool machine...). So far, so good. I 've some problems when i want to install vi network. I've boot from cd and put some parameters which i know from 32 Bit maschines. insmod=tg3 (for bcm5700) hostip=192.168.3.2/24 gateway=192.168.3.254 install=http://192.168.1.10/sles9a autoyast=http://192.168.1.10/install/amd.xml. The problem is that my client could not find this server, but when i use yast manually to find this server it works ! I really don't understand what's going on. Thank you very much for any advice... Greets Cozy Paul ______________________________________________________________ Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS! Jetzt bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://f.web.de/?mc=021193

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sles 9.0 and create_package_descr
by Pierre Allix 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

Hello, I tried to create an installation source with some binary rpm packages (they are binary from the update). I use create_package_descr (I even tried with genIS_PLAINCACHE and with nothing too) and then add the local directory in YaST. When there is a lot of packages (>30) I see "no db path found" and when I try to install a package YaST (and yast cd-creator) segfaults. Thanks for your help, Pierre

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RE: [suse-autoinstall] LV on MD
by Suffin, Charles 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

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RE: [suse-autoinstall] What Linux to use?
by Suffin, Charles 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

John, Our default kernel at Stratus doesn't work on our SATA-based hardware either. I think that the kernel has to be built with SATA support enabled, but I'm not actually sure. Your question might be better answered on the kernel mail list, as I don't think it's actually an installation issue. (I could be totally wrong though! :) ) -- Charlie -----Original Message----- From: John [mailto:j_and_d@telkomsa.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 1:09 PM To: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-autoinstall] What Linux to use? SYSTEM AMD64 mobo Giigabyte GA-K8N ram 1Gb 400 Mhz DDR hdd 2 x 80Gb Maxtor SATA 0 x IDE hdd what version of Linux will install on above system? Linux 9.1 pe gives message that kernal UNABLE to install on SATA hdd please advise this hopefull beginner thankyou John -- 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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What Linux to use?
by John 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

SYSTEM AMD64 mobo Giigabyte GA-K8N ram 1Gb 400 Mhz DDR hdd 2 x 80Gb Maxtor SATA 0 x IDE hdd what version of Linux will install on above system? Linux 9.1 pe gives message that kernal UNABLE to install on SATA hdd please advise this hopefull beginner thankyou John

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