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xinclude:include on AutoYaST SLES9
by Yan Fitterer 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

I'm having trouble using the xinclude:include syntax on SLES9 SP2. See file extracts below. A few questions: 1) Is the xinclude syntax is known to work on SLES9 SP2? 2) Is it possible to reference a local file in the href: ? (like href:=/tmp/osmf.xml) 3) From the error in y2log, it seems that autoyast can't get the http file, however if I do: wget http://10.26.248.155/SLES9CONTROL/sles9sp2/content.xml I get the file all right. Any clues please? Thanks Yan LOGS & FILES: I have in the 'container' file: <profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns" xmlns:xinclude="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> and down further: </partition> <xinclude:include href="http://10.26.248.155/SLES9CONTROL/sles9sp2/osmf.xml" /> <partition> The osmf.xml file: <?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" xmlns:xinclude="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <install> <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/vg01</device> <is_lvm_vg config:type="boolean">true</is_lvm_vg> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <lv_name>osmflv</lv_name> <mount>/osmf</mount> <size>200MB</size> </partition> </partitions> <pesize>4M</pesize> <use>all</use> </drive> </install> </profile> And in y2log 2005-10-13 21:21:16 <1> linux(3737) [agent-curl] CurlAgent.cc(Execute):210 Output: /tmp/YaST2-03737-IAsUEr/rules/container.xml 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <1> linux(3737) [YCP] AutoInstallRules.ycp:722 Working on file: container.xml 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <1> linux(3737) [YCP] XML.ycp:113 Reading /tmp/YaST2-03737-IAsUEr/rules/container.xml 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 http://10.26.248.155/SLES9CONTROL/sles9sp2/osmf.xml:2: 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 I/O 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 warning : 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 failed to load HTTP resource 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 <!DOCTYPE profile SYSTEM "/usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/profile.dtd"> 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 ^ 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 http://10.26.248.155/SLES9CONTROL/sles9sp2/osmf.xml:21: 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 parser 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 error : 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 Opening and ending tag mismatch: partitioning line 5 and install 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 </install> 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 ^ 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 http://10.26.248.155/SLES9CONTROL/sles9sp2/osmf.xml:22: 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 parser 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 error : 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 Opening and ending tag mismatch: install line 4 and profile 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 </profile> 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 ^ 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 http://10.26.248.155/SLES9CONTROL/sles9sp2/osmf.xml:23: 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 parser 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 error : 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 Premature end of data in tag profile line 3 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 ^ 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 could not load http://10.26.248.155/SLES9CONTROL/sles9sp2/osmf.xml, and no fallback was found 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 http://10.26.248.155/SLES9CONTROL/sles9sp2/content.xml:2: 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 I/O 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 warning : 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 failed to load HTTP resource 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 <!DOCTYPE profile SYSTEM "/usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/profile.dtd"> 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 ^ 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [Interpreter] XML.ycp:114 Failed while processing XIncludes 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [Interpreter] XML.ycp:114 SCR::Read() failed 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [Interpreter] XML.ycp:81 Argument (contents) to Execute(...) is nil 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [YCP] AutoInstallRules.ycp:727 Error reading XML file 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [bash] ShellCommand.cc(shellcommand):73 cp: cannot stat `/tmp/YaST2-03737-IAsUEr/base_profile.xml': No such file or directory 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <1> linux(3737) [YCP] AutoInstallRules.ycp:756 Ok=true 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <2> linux(3737) [YCP] XML.ycp:120 XML file /tmp/YaST2-03737-IAsUEr/rules/prefinal_autoinst.xml (-1) not found 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <1> linux(3737) [YCP] Profile.ycp:98 importing profile 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <1> linux(3737) [YCP] Profile.ycp:80 Can't detect Profile Version 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <1> linux(3737) [YCP] AutoInstallRules.ycp:788 Checking classes... 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <3> linux(3737) [bash] ShellCommand.cc(shellcommand):73 cp: cannot stat `/tmp/YaST2-03737-IAsUEr/rules/prefinal_autoinst.xml': No such file or directory 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <1> linux(3737) [YCP] AutoInstallRules.ycp:823 returns=true 2005-10-13 21:21:21 <1> linux(3737) [YCP] ProfileLocation.ycp:143 rulesret=true 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <1> linux(3737) [YCP] XML.ycp:113 Reading /tmp/YaST2-03737-IAsUEr/autoinst.xml 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 http://10.26.248.155/SLES9CONTROL/sles9sp2/osmf.xml:2: 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 I/O 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 warning : 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 failed to load HTTP resource 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 <!DOCTYPE profile SYSTEM "/usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/profile.dtd"> 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 ^ 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 http://10.26.248.155/SLES9CONTROL/sles9sp2/osmf.xml:21: 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 parser 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 error : 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 Opening and ending tag mismatch: partitioning line 5 and install 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 </install> 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 ^ 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 http://10.26.248.155/SLES9CONTROL/sles9sp2/osmf.xml:22: 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 parser 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 error : 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 Opening and ending tag mismatch: install line 4 and profile 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 </profile> 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 ^ 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 http://10.26.248.155/SLES9CONTROL/sles9sp2/osmf.xml:23: 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 parser 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 error : 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 Premature end of data in tag profile line 3 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 ^ 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 could not load http://10.26.248.155/SLES9CONTROL/sles9sp2/osmf.xml, and no fallback was found 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 http://10.26.248.155/SLES9CONTROL/sles9sp2/content.xml:2: 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 I/O 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 warning : 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 failed to load HTTP resource 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 <!DOCTYPE profile SYSTEM "/usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/profile.dtd"> 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(xmlagentError):678 ^ 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [Interpreter] XML.ycp:114 Failed while processing XIncludes 2005-10-13 21:21:22 <3> linux(3737) [Interpreter] XML.ycp:114 SCR::Read() failed

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Question on AutoYast and multiple nic cards on SLES9
by Jeff Christensen 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Hi, I have a DL-380 that has four nic cards in it. I want to be able to setup AutoYast so that it assigns one ip to eth1 and one to eth2, skipping eth0. When I try to set this up I am assigning the mac address of the card as follows: <bootproto>dhcp</bootproto> <device>eth‑ id‑ 00:10:18:0c:5e:db</device> However, it still assigns a ip to eth0, and then one to eth1. I am using pxe for installs and want to reserver the eth0 interface for the pxe network boot. This DL-380 has 2 nics built-in and then 2 nics that I have added to it, Thank you for your suggestions and please let me know if you need more, Jeff Christensen

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Is it possible to start an AutoYast installation from a diskless booted system?
by Joe Landman 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

Hi folks: For a number of reasons, I need to look into whether or not we can set up a system to boot into diskless mode, and while operating there, start the autoyast installation onto the hardware. Is this possible? Or does autoyast only work when you specify the autoyast=/path/to/xml/file on the boot command line? Thanks. Joe -- Joe Landman email: landman(a)scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com

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Bei Installation nach Partitionen fragen
by Boris "BXS" Schulz 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

Hi, wie schaffe ich es, daß mich Autoyast (suse9.2) bei der Installation nach meiner gewünschten Aufteilung der Festplatten und Partitionen fragt? Ich habe bisher nur herausbekommen, wie man die Partitionen fest in das autoinst.xml eintragen kann, was mir nicht weiterhilft. Leider scheint es die Hilfeseite von Nashif nicht mehr zu geben, daher würde ich mich umso mehr über eine Antwort freuen. mfg, B.S.

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Novell stole my documentation! (or, "how do I use the 'custom' rule type?")
by Marlier, Ian 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

Okay, so I went to go read up on rules documentation, and discovered that http://yast.suse.com/ now redirects to http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?yast. And that I need to sign up for an account to actually read any of the docs there. And they seem to be SLES-specific, and I'm autoyast'ing SuSE Pro 9.3 machines. Sigh. In any case: I've got about 8 different distinct types of machines. Different disk configs, different uses and thus different package selections, and so on. I'd like to set up a custom rule that matches based on the DHCP-assigned hostname and/or the last octet of the IP address (ie, database machines are in the .12X range of the subnet, and have hostnames like "database-4". I want the rules file to give them a particular config by matching either the ".12" or the "database-"). Looking at the most recent docs that I have available (boo!), Rev. 1.1.6.4 from June 11, 2004, it looks like I'm going to have to resort to a custom rule. But there's no hint of how to put together a custom rule in the aforementioned doc. So, yeah -- my question (there had to be one here somewhere....): Does anyone have either of - A location for more recent docs that explain how to set up a custom rule; or - an example of using a custom rule that I might be able to look over? Thanks! - Ian

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] Disk partitioning with pre script !!
by Hans-Joachim Ehlers 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

>>> Ajay Mulwani <ajaymulwani(a)gmail.com> 10/10/05 09:00 >>> > Now I am also looking for detailed info on rules and classes. Could you >please point me to the latest document for autoinstall. Google resulted this >this link www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/<http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/>. >However > it looks the link is missing the required doc. Any alternate location !! >From there you should be able to go to: http://forgeftp.novell.com/yast/doc/SLES9/autoinstall/9.1/html/index.html I do not know any further online docu. But about rules and classes: The point is: 1) a so called class file is just a simple extract from a full installation ( control.xml, autoinstall.xml ) file. 2) the rules.xml will decide which files will be merged. Only the matched files will be merged, meaning NO default installation.xml file will be used by default. If you look at my example you see that the last rule will match everytime. So a ' standard ' XML file will be used/merged for every host. 3) All matched files will be merged to a large control.xml file which will be used for installation. The rest is just a place where the stuff will be. ./rules # Place/directory where the rules.xml file must be. ./classes # Just a directory where you place all your XML files. Keep in mind that if you use rules you must not supply a filename to autoyast ! Only the starting directory is allowed ( So the autoyast call must end with a slash ) Example: autoyast=nfs://server/suse9.3/ And below suse9.3 you have: ./rules/rules.xml ./classes/ ./largemem.xml ./lowmem.xml ./standard.xml hth Hajo

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] Disk partitioning with pre script !!
by Ajay Mulwani 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

Thanks Hans. I am yet to try this but it seems this is certainly useful for me. Now I am also looking for detailed info on rules and classes. Could you please point me to the latest document for autoinstall. Google resulted this this link www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/<http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/>. However it looks the link is missing the required doc. Any alternate location !! Thanks again. Ajay

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Autoyast 'xmlns' and 'xmlns:config' values
by Mitko Haralanov 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

Hi, I have been having problem with autoyast very early in the installation process without any error messages showing up and I was trying to check the XML file. While the XML file looks correct, the values for the 'xmlns' and 'xmlns:config' attributes of the <profile> tag don't seem right. If I try to go to http://www.suse.com/1.0/ or http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns with my browser I get 'Error 404: Object Not Found' errors. Has the URL for those files changed? What should be the values for the two attributes? -- Mitko Haralanov mitko(a)pathscale.com http://www.pathscale.com ========================================== Let the machine do the dirty work. -- "Elements of Programming Style", Kernighan and Ritchie

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TFTP / PXE simple, but I can not get it to work
by HG 08 Oct '05

08 Oct '05

Hello! I've just downloaded the ISO for 10.0. Now I tried to set it up to a laptop with PXE. The server is SuSE 9.3. I did this on the server: 1) mount the iso with: mount SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-i386-GM.iso -o loop -t iso9660 /tftpboot 2) Open YaST2 + Network Services + TFTP server 3) There select enable (Firewall is disabled) and set boot image directory to /tftpboot/ 4) Select Finish Then I go to the laptop. Select PXE boot. Then it scans for the DHCP for a while, but then doesn't find any boot image (and continues to boot with the old OS). I have previously booted the server with Knoppix and selected the PXE server systems from Knoppix (I do not remember what it was called). That worked and the laptop booted into knoppix. Why can't I do the same with SuSE 9.3? What am I doing wrong? -- HG.

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upgrade with autoyast
by detlef oertel 08 Oct '05

08 Oct '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, sorry if I missed something, but I found no documentation about automatic client upgrade with autoyast (e.g. 9.3 -> 10.0). Is this possible ? Is there any HowTo or documentation ? thanks a lot detlef -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDR48PiHgljbcBEOYRAnxmAJ41FY4+s5K5pyMO3aaz+M7gJ40fAACgno87 VuwO7uICRCFnDYKuq7+qWC8= =0ekj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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