October 2005 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [suse-autoinstall] AutoYaST generated partitioning plan with SL-10.0
by Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

Hey! That did it. My mistake, of course... I used the old xml snippets for ip-address and hostname configuration which were generated from a template of the old autoyast (from SuSE 9.1). Uwe Gansert schrieb: > On Wednesday 26 October 2005 15:33, you wrote: > > you have <configure> tags in your profile. > Please remove the <configure> and the </configure> tag. Thanks a lot! FDF -- Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs (IT-Services), DFN-CERT Services GmbH https://www.dfn-cert.de/, +49 40 808077-555 (Hotline)

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AutoYaST generated partitioning plan with SL-10.0
by Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

Hi! I've ported an old installation profile from SuSE 9.1 to SL-10.0 with "yast2 autoyast". Unfortunatly in the "Create partition plans" stage I get the error message "Error while configuring partitions. Try again.". The installation is started over pxe. The relevant of my config file is: <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/sda</device> <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <crypt>twofish256</crypt> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <fs_options> <opt_blocksize> <option_str>-b</option_str> <option_value>auto</option_value> </opt_blocksize> <opt_bytes_per_inode> <option_str>-I</option_str> <option_value>default</option_value> </opt_bytes_per_inode> <opt_inode_density> <option_str>-i</option_str> <option_value>auto</option_value> </opt_inode_density> <opt_raid> <option_str>-Rstride=</option_str> <option_value>none</option_value> </opt_raid> <opt_reserved_blocks> <option_str>-m</option_str> <option_value>auto</option_value> </opt_reserved_blocks> </fs_options> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>/boot</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>256M</size> </partition> <partition> <crypt>twofish256</crypt> <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>swap</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">130</partition_id> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>auto</size> </partition> <partition> <crypt>twofish256</crypt> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <fs_options> <opt_blocksize> <option_str>-b</option_str> <option_value>auto</option_value> </opt_blocksize> <opt_bytes_per_inode> <option_str>-I</option_str> <option_value>default</option_value> </opt_bytes_per_inode> <opt_inode_density> <option_str>-i</option_str> <option_value>auto</option_value> </opt_inode_density> <opt_raid> <option_str>-Rstride=</option_str> <option_value>none</option_value> </opt_raid> <opt_reserved_blocks> <option_str>-m</option_str> <option_value>auto</option_value> </opt_reserved_blocks> </fs_options> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>/</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>2G</size> </partition> <partition> <crypt>twofish256</crypt> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <fs_options> <opt_blocksize> <option_str>-b</option_str> <option_value>auto</option_value> </opt_blocksize> <opt_bytes_per_inode> <option_str>-I</option_str> <option_value>default</option_value> </opt_bytes_per_inode> <opt_inode_density> <option_str>-i</option_str> <option_value>auto</option_value> </opt_inode_density> <opt_raid> <option_str>-Rstride=</option_str> <option_value>none</option_value> </opt_raid> <opt_reserved_blocks> <option_str>-m</option_str> <opt_reserved_blocks> <option_str>-m</option_str> <option_value>auto</option_value> </opt_reserved_blocks> </fs_options> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>/usr</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <size>11G</size> </partition> <partition> <crypt>twofish256</crypt> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>/var</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <size>2G</size> </partition> <partition> <crypt>twofish256</crypt> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>/opt</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <size>4G</size> </partition> <partition> <crypt>twofish256</crypt> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>/tmp</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <size>1G</size> </partition> <partition> <crypt>twofish256</crypt> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <fstopt>noatime,noacl</fstopt> <label></label> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>/var/cache/afs</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby> <noauto config:type="boolean">false</noauto> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <size>4G</size> </partition> <partition> </partition> <partition> <crypt>twofish256</crypt> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>/scratch</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <size>max</size> </partition> </partitions> <use>all</use> </drive> </partitioning> I regenerated the partition plan from scratch with autoyast, however other parts of the config were imported to autoyast and then modified. The configuration worked for the SuSE 9.1 installations. I also saved the y2log file which is 182k large. Please tell me, what I can do to identify the problem! Kind regards FDF -- Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs (IT-Services), DFN-CERT Services GmbH https://www.dfn-cert.de/, +49 40 808077-555 (Hotline)

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control.xml / software tag
by mm＠gnulinux.de 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Hi, I am trying to modify a control.xml from a default installation CD. I have changed the software tag to something like: <selection_type config:type=”symbol”>fixed</selection_type> <base>Minimal</base> But it seems to be ignored. The installer just shows: ? (161.3 MB total) I have also tried to preselect another base category, which also is ignored. Any Ideas? Marcus PS: Perhaps I have to mention that I have removed the desktop_new module from the control file.

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Control file not found - must be an easy mistake
by Stefan Pfeiffer 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Hi! I tried an autoinstall with an autoinst.xml on a floppy and the Suse 10.0 (retail version) installation DVD, like outlined in the 7.3.2. section of the autoyast documentation "Auto-installing a Single System". When booting, the floppy gets accessed, but the logging console says "You must supply a control file", or something similar (I do not have the machine right here now where i can write mails). Yast also says that it cannot find a control file. I tried no special kernel paramater, but also "autoyast=default" und "autoyast=floppy" without success. The xml control file is named autoinst.xml and is placed in the root of the floppy. I must have overlooked a silly little detail... Thanks for any help... Regards, Stefan Pfeiffer -- # Dipl.-Phys. Stefan Pfeiffer # Abteilung Modellierung und Simulation # Fraunhofer Institut f. Lasertechnik # Steinbachstr. 15, D-52074 Aachen, Germany. # Tel: + 49 (241) 8906 153 , Fax: +49 (241) 8906 121 # EMail: pfeiffer(a)ilt.fhg.de, WWW: http://www.ilt.fhg.de/nld/

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boot partition for openpower systems
by Reynold L Demarco 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

I am trying to autoyast an IBM OpenPower 520 system. When I autoyast the system without creating a PReP boot partition, the autoyast won't complete without error. I get the following error when it tries to install the boot loader.... ERROR: boot = /dev/null is not a valid block device When I create a PRep boot partition using the following in my autoyast file.... <partition> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <partition_id config:type="integer">65</partition_id> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>24M</size> </partition> The autoyast completes fine and I get a bootable system. However, when I do an fdisk on the booted system, the PReP Boot partition starts and ends on cylinder 1 and I get a message stating that "Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary". So I have a couple of questions... -Do I need to create this PReP Boot partition? If so, what is the correct configuration so to not get the cylinder boundary error? -If I must have it, how do I mount it after the fact so I can modify bootloader settings? -Can this partition be a FAT16 partition, and if so how do I create this, I tried using partiton_id 5 and 6 and my autoyast fails. Any help appreciated.

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Yast Autoinstall
by Marvin H Green 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Hello, I already created my control file for the Auto install but I'm not sure where to go next. I would like to get things setup so that the control file would be read during installation and avoid use intervention. Any ideas of what/how to do this? Thank you, Marvin H Green Coop/Intern, z/VM System Test IBM - Endicott, NY 13760 Email: mhgreen(a)us.ibm.com Tel: (607) 429-5964 or T/L 620-5964

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] autoyast beginner question
by Yan Fitterer 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

All you need is to autoinstall=nfs://x.x.x.x/installsource/autoinst.xml on your install kernel command line. autoyast=default will not pick up a file called autoinst.xml Best, Yan >>> Rainer Krienke <krienke(a)uni-koblenz.de> >>> Hello, I am using opensuse10.0 at the moment. i do installations of hosts usually via NFS which woks fine. What I wanted to achive is that when an installation starts a certain set of packages is used for this installation without the need to go into the yast menues an select the packages I would like to install. So i created my own package selection and integrated it in mediaroot/suse/setup/descr/ . Manually I can activate this package selection in yast. Now I would like to automatically select this package selection when yast starts up in an installation process. So I thought I create a autinstall.xml file containing code to select my package selection and then go on installing like usual. The autoinst.xml file is very simple (created by yast autoinstall): <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE profile SYSTEM "/usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/profile.dtd"> <profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns"> <software> <addons config:type="list"> <addon>Min</addon> <addon>uniko-4.2</addon> </addons> <base>Minimal</base> </software> </profile> I put this file in the root directory that I specify for NFS installation. When I now start an installation and say autoyast=default on the kernel commandline autoyast comes up and at the point of "Steuerdatei abrufen und einlesen" it asks me in a dialog Box for "Pfad für Systemprofil" (Path to system profile). And now I actually do not know what autoyast needs? I thought my autoinst.xml file is the system profile needed? But it seems there is something more? Can anyone help Thanks Rainer -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Krienke, Universitaet Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, Raum A022 Universitaetsstrasse 1, 56070 Koblenz, Tel: +49 261287 -1312, Fax: -1001312 Mail: krienke(a)uni-koblenz.de, Web: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke Get my public PGP key: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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autoyast beginner question
by Rainer Krienke 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Hello, I am using opensuse10.0 at the moment. i do installations of hosts usually via NFS which woks fine. What I wanted to achive is that when an installation starts a certain set of packages is used for this installation without the need to go into the yast menues an select the packages I would like to install. So i created my own package selection and integrated it in mediaroot/suse/setup/descr/ . Manually I can activate this package selection in yast. Now I would like to automatically select this package selection when yast starts up in an installation process. So I thought I create a autinstall.xml file containing code to select my package selection and then go on installing like usual. The autoinst.xml file is very simple (created by yast autoinstall): <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE profile SYSTEM "/usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/profile.dtd"> <profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns"> <software> <addons config:type="list"> <addon>Min</addon> <addon>uniko-4.2</addon> </addons> <base>Minimal</base> </software> </profile> I put this file in the root directory that I specify for NFS installation. When I now start an installation and say autoyast=default on the kernel commandline autoyast comes up and at the point of "Steuerdatei abrufen und einlesen" it asks me in a dialog Box for "Pfad für Systemprofil" (Path to system profile). And now I actually do not know what autoyast needs? I thought my autoinst.xml file is the system profile needed? But it seems there is something more? Can anyone help Thanks Rainer -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Krienke, Universitaet Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, Raum A022 Universitaetsstrasse 1, 56070 Koblenz, Tel: +49 261287 -1312, Fax: -1001312 Mail: krienke(a)uni-koblenz.de, Web: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke Get my public PGP key: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] Disk partitioning with pre script !!
by Ajay Mulwani 19 Oct '05

19 Oct '05

Hi Hans, 1. The class.xml file was missing that header and footer info which I added and restarted the install. It seems the swap is still not there !! 2. rules.xml : is exactly the same as you had mailed earlier. $ cat rules.xml <?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> <custom1> <script> <![CDATA[ #!/bin/sh mem=$( cat /proc/meminfo | grep -i memtotal | awk '{ print $2 } ' } # Output is in kbytes echo -n $mem ]]> </script> <match>499999</match> <match_type>greater</match_type> </custom1> <result> <profile>classes/largeswap.xml</profile> <continue config:type="boolean">true</continue> </result> </rule> <rule> <custom1> <match>500000</match> <match_type>lower</match_type> </custom1> <profile>classes/smallswap.xml</profile> <continue config:type="boolean">true</continue> <custom1> <match>*</match> <match_type>exact</match_type> </custom1> <result> <profile>classes/autoinst.xml</profile> <continue config:type="boolean">false</continue> </result> </rule> </rules> </autoinstall> $ 3. /var/adm/autoinstall/cache/InstalledSystem.xml is certainly missing the swap partition info. 4. The latest documentation link seems to not working currently. Regards, Ajay

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RE: [suse-autoinstall] Output of post scripts
by Stephens, Bill {PBSG} 19 Oct '05

19 Oct '05

Try ctrl+alt+f3 or f4 -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Peere [mailto:sycrontw@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 10:15 AM To: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-autoinstall] Output of post scripts Hi all, Can anyone tell me if there is any way to show some output of a post installation script to the console screen ? I'd like to show what scripts it is performing and show some results. Regards, Dennis _________________________________________________________________ Bescherm je Inbox: Phishing - hoe te herkennen, rapporteren en voorkomen http://www.msn.be/security/phishing/ -- 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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