March 2005 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [suse-autoinstall] Question on Yast online update "YOU"
by Marlier, Ian 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

What version of SuSE? -----Original Message----- From: John Ciccone [mailto:cagspy@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:46 PM To: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-autoinstall] Question on Yast online update "YOU" Hello All, I am trying to use the Yast online Update for automatic patch update. I am getting the following error when attempting to set this up: Under Location I have: http://ftp.ale.org/pub/suse When I click on next I get the following error: error HTTP return code: 404 (URL: http://ftp.ale.org/pub/suse/i386/update/Novell-Linux-Desktop/9/patches/d irectory.3) When I use an FTP site such as: ftp.suse.com I get this error: "error Couldn't cd to Novell-Linux-Desktop" I'm not sure why it is looking for a dir called "Novell-Linux-Desktop" I haven't seen this dir on any server. Any help would be greatly appricated. Caggie. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- 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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Question on Yast online update "YOU"
by John Ciccone 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hello All, I am trying to use the Yast online Update for automatic patch update. I am getting the following error when attempting to set this up: Under Location I have: http://ftp.ale.org/pub/suse When I click on next I get the following error: error HTTP return code: 404 (URL: http://ftp.ale.org/pub/suse/i386/update/Novell-Linux-Desktop/9/patches/dire…) When I use an FTP site such as: ftp.suse.com I get this error: "error Couldn't cd to Novell-Linux-Desktop" I'm not sure why it is looking for a dir called "Novell-Linux-Desktop" I haven't seen this dir on any server. Any help would be greatly appricated. Caggie. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Installing 32-bit software on 64-bit computer
by Bis Kanungo 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

I have used autoyast SUSE Pro 9.2 on a variety of 32-bit machines without problems. I want to install on an HP xw6200 machine and it gives be a message - "Cool computer, but you are about to install 32-bit software on a 64-bit computer". Now it requires manual intervention right at the start and after first reboot. I think this message is from the boot loader. Is there any way to suppress this so that the installation can proceed automated. Thanks! Bis.

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Installing SLES 8 SP3 using Driver Update disk fails at the end of installation!!!
by Ravi Anand 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

> Hi List, > > We are using Driver Update Disk for one of our HBA to do "BOOT From SAN" testing on AMD Opteron - IWILL motheroard using SLES 8 SP3. Interestingly enough what > happens that it recognizes the update media , loads the driver and completes the installation. But at the end of the Installation it never asks for SP3 CD again and it fails > complaining about the scsi_mod for 2.4.19-64G kernel does not exist. In other words it thinks it doing SLES 8 base istallation and not SP3 ? > > We ran into the same issue on SunFireWire (which has AMD Opteron ) using "Automatic Installation" but we were able to work it around > using the Manaul Installation -Add driver update disk. But even this mechanism fails on IWILL Motherboard + AMD Opteron + SP3 combination? > > Any ideas or input whats going on ? > > Any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated > > Thanx > Ravi Anand

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SuSE 9.2 Online Updates Mirror
by suse_list 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Hi, I am woundering is there anyway to rsync the SuSE 9.2 Online updates mirror. We run a shop of more then 50 Suse workstations and would like to have a local mirror of the SuSE patches. Is there a rsync mirror we can latch onto, from where we can download to our local patch server? Also we would like to have it setup in the autoinstall (autoyast) portion. We can install all workstations just fine, via PXE, but would like that it would also setup the online updates link to our server and update from there nightly (at like 2am). What do i need to put into the XML file for the online updates, that it does it automatically. Thanks for any advice S.

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Network Ports and /etc/sysconfig/network
by Suffin, Charles 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Hi folks, It seems that the auto-installation of network ports (which are described in the XML control file) doesn't create files in /etc/sysconfig/network. However, if you run YaST2 Network Devices (left) Network Card (right) and add a network port, a file in /etc/sysconfig/network like ifcfg-eth-id-AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF is created -- the name corresponds to the MAC address of the card. Here's a snippet from my XML. Anyone know why auto-install isn't creating the file(s) in /etc/sysconfig/network? Or, do you know what source code I should look at to figure this out? : <interfaces config:type="list"> <interface> <bootproto>dhcp</bootproto> <device>eth0</device> <startmode>onboot</startmode> </interface> <interface> <bootproto>dhcp</bootproto> <device>eth1</device> <startmode>onboot</startmode> </interface> </interfaces> <modules config:type="list"> <module_entry> <device>bus-pci-0000:01:03.0</device> <module>e1000</module> </module_entry> <module_entry> <device>bus-pci-0000:01:06.0</device> <module>e100</module> </module_entry> </modules> -- Charlie p.s./ I'm talking about auto-installation of SLES9 and SLES9-SP1. ----- A. Charles Suffin Senior Software Engineer Stratus Technologies, Inc. (http://www.stratus.com) 111 Powdermill Road Maynard, MA 01754-3409 US (978)461-7590

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RE: [suse-autoinstall] SuSE 9.2 Online Updates Mirror
by Schumacher, Gordon 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Well, except... ftp/http are a lot more intensive on bandwidth than rync: The rsync remote-update protocol allows rsync to transfer just the dif- ferences between two sets of files across the network connection, using an efficient checksum-search algorithm described in the technical report that accompanies this package. (Also, rsync has a more robust and less machine-intensive way to get the entire tree's directory listing than "ls -lAR".) And, rsync supports rate limiting too, with the --bwlimit switch. -----Original Message----- From: Marlier, Ian [mailto:ian.marlier@studentuniverse.com] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 5:35 AM To: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com Subject: RE: [suse-autoinstall] SuSE 9.2 Online Updates Mirror Remember that wget was originally written for this purpose...I haven't set this up yet, so I don't know what the command line would be, but wget will allow you to mirror from any http/ftp repository (and can do things like bandwidth limits, which tends to make the sysadmins at the other end of the connection happier). -----Original Message----- From: suse_list [mailto:suse_list@infineon.net] Sent: Thu 3/17/2005 7:07 PM To: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-autoinstall] SuSE 9.2 Online Updates Mirror Hi, I am woundering is there anyway to rsync the SuSE 9.2 Online updates mirror. We run a shop of more then 50 Suse workstations and would like to have a local mirror of the SuSE patches. Is there a rsync mirror we can latch onto, from where we can download to our local patch server? Also we would like to have it setup in the autoinstall (autoyast) portion. We can install all workstations just fine, via PXE, but would like that it would also setup the online updates link to our server and update from there nightly (at like 2am). What do i need to put into the XML file for the online updates, that it does it automatically. Thanks for any advice S. -- 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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RE: [suse-autoinstall] SuSE 9.2 Online Updates Mirror
by Marlier, Ian 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Remember that wget was originally written for this purpose...I haven't set this up yet, so I don't know what the command line would be, but wget will allow you to mirror from any http/ftp repository (and can do things like bandwidth limits, which tends to make the sysadmins at the other end of the connection happier). -----Original Message----- From: suse_list [mailto:suse_list@infineon.net] Sent: Thu 3/17/2005 7:07 PM To: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-autoinstall] SuSE 9.2 Online Updates Mirror Hi, I am woundering is there anyway to rsync the SuSE 9.2 Online updates mirror. We run a shop of more then 50 Suse workstations and would like to have a local mirror of the SuSE patches. Is there a rsync mirror we can latch onto, from where we can download to our local patch server? Also we would like to have it setup in the autoinstall (autoyast) portion. We can install all workstations just fine, via PXE, but would like that it would also setup the online updates link to our server and update from there nightly (at like 2am). What do i need to put into the XML file for the online updates, that it does it automatically. Thanks for any advice S. -- 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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RE: [suse-autoinstall] SuSE 9.2 Online Updates Mirror
by Schumacher, Gordon 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

I know of at least one at suse.cs.utah.edu. You might try connecting to other mirrors and read their policy statement; that's how I found that one (also because it's one of the closest to me). -----Original Message----- From: suse_list [mailto:suse_list@infineon.net] Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 5:08 PM To: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-autoinstall] SuSE 9.2 Online Updates Mirror Hi, I am woundering is there anyway to rsync the SuSE 9.2 Online updates mirror. We run a shop of more then 50 Suse workstations and would like to have a local mirror of the SuSE patches. Is there a rsync mirror we can latch onto, from where we can download to our local patch server? Also we would like to have it setup in the autoinstall (autoyast) portion. We can install all workstations just fine, via PXE, but would like that it would also setup the online updates link to our server and update from there nightly (at like 2am). What do i need to put into the XML file for the online updates, that it does it automatically. Thanks for any advice S. -- 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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RE: [suse-autoinstall] Yast Unattended Install - annoying network problem - the results so far....
by Colin Topliss 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Hi all, Here's a quick update (on account of my web-mail client not doing a 'reply-all' so my responses never made it to the mailing list).... 1) DHCP related answers... I am not using DHCP. I have supplied the network details on the command line, and my final NIC configuration details are in the XML configuration file. I decided not to use DHCP because of the network topology. 2) instmode=http I hadn't thought about using this option. I sort of assumed that the install=http option was enough to tell YaST what I was up to. I also can't see what effect that would have on the timeout problem. Gave it a go though (couldn't wait until tomorrow) - and it did not help. Worse still, the initrd command line is now so long it gets truncated! :-( 3) Spanning tree option on the switch. Although not using DHCP, this has raised the question about timeouts on bringing the switch port on-line in a timely fashion. I have noticed in the past that, when 'plugging in' a new cable, the port took some time to initialise. Now this may not be *exactly* the same scenario now (I'm not un-plugging/plugging in the server), but maybe the switch is doing something funky. Unfortunately I will have to wait until tomorrow to take a look at it to see what its up to. Thanks for all the responses so far. Col. ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail message (including any attachment) is intended only for the personal use of the recipient(s) named above. This message is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient, you may not review, copy or distribute this message. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the original message. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are those of the author only. Furthermore, this message (including any attachment) does not create any legally binding rights or obligations whatsoever, which may only be created by the exchange of hard copy documents signed by a duly authorised representative of Hutchison 3G UK Limited. ________________________________________________________________________

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