October 2005 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [suse-autoinstall] Disk partitioning with pre script !!
by Hans-Joachim Ehlers 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Use a rules.xml and remove Partitioning from the autoinst.xml and create classes hth Hajo NOT TESTEST $ 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>

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Disk partitioning with pre script !!
by Ajay Mulwani 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Hello List, Could someone please suggets any process to partition the disk probably using pre scripts or any other method in SLES9. I have a requirement to create swap which should be either equal or twice the RAM. Thanks, Ajay

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] Using an USB-HDD as bootable install-media
by Stefan Pfeiffer 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Hi! Hans-Joachim Ehlers wrote: >>easily be used during the install, as the NForce-4-Onboard-LAN is not >>recognized bei SUSE 10.0 RC1 and must be installed manually after an > > You might use the insmod option in the ' info' file to use the correct network driver during installation I would need to brew that network driver (that has to be compiled for that specific kernel) into the driver floppy disk (or the PXE boot image), a task i would like to avoid. I do not really need network install, and i think it adds difficulties for no benefit. I would really prefer to have my own tailored bootable media that i plugin when i need to reinstall the machine, if possible. That must be possible, i guess. > hth > Hajo Regards, Stefan -- # 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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Including files
by Darío Mariani 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Hello: I have an autoyast profile that looks like this: <?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"> <configure> <firewall> <start_firewall config:type="boolean">false</start_firewall> </firewall> ... This profile woks perfect. Now I try the following (as sugested by http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstallation/faq.html#id2460912) <?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"> <configure> <xinclude:include href="http://path/to/firewall.xml" /> ... and firewall.xml looks like this: <firewall> <start_firewall config:type="boolean">false</start_firewall> </firewall> and this does not work. Any idea on what could be wrong?, I already verified that the included file is accesible. Thanks for any help, Darío PD: Is there any (nearly) complete documentation on autoyast? As the documentation found in the Novell site is quite incomplete.

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] Using an USB-HDD as bootable install-media
by Hans-Joachim Ehlers 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

>easily be used during the install, as the NForce-4-Onboard-LAN is not >recognized bei SUSE 10.0 RC1 and must be installed manually after an You might use the insmod option in the ' info' file to use the correct network driver during installation hth Hajo

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Using an USB-HDD as bootable install-media
by Stefan Pfeiffer 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Hi! I need to autoinstall SUSE (10.0 as soon as it becomes available) using an USB-HDD instead of a DVD or CD-ROMs. How can i use that HDD instead of a boot CD as installation medium? The easy part will be to copy the CD-ROMs to that drive, and put installation scripts (xml and post-install-scripts) on that drive, too. How do i make that HDD bootable like a CD-ROM? Any hints on how to proceed are very welcome. I would like to have the machine automatically (without user interaction) installed when the USB HDD drive is plugged in. The machines have no CD-ROM-drive, and the ethernet connection cannot easily be used during the install, as the NForce-4-Onboard-LAN is not recognized bei SUSE 10.0 RC1 and must be installed manually after an installation from CD-ROM. Regards, Stefan -- # 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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workaround for a problem loading SuSE 9.3 pro on a Sun v20z
by Joe Landman 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Hi folks: We worked around an immediate hard kernel panic attempting to load SuSE 9.3 Pro on a small v20z unit using autoyast by the following method (note: this is not likely to be supported by SuSE, and they may actively discourage it) 1) download OpenSuSE-10 RC-1 2) copy the binary linux and initrd to your servers /tftpboot directory (where ever you serve your pxe from) 3) change your pxelinux.cfg/default (or similar file) to use this kernel and initrd rather than the ones you might be using now. I also set textmode=1 4) restart xinetd if you run tftpd through it (or simply restart your tftpd daemon) 5) boot and install I am not sure why SuSE 9.3 Pro immediately kernel panics on a v20z boot. Not sure if it is worth fixing if this method works. Joe -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman(a)scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 cell : +1 734 612 4615

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