August 2005 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Forcing disc mount points during install/after install [SP 9.3]
by Marlier, Ian 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hey, all -- Trying to set up autoinstall for a number of servers with the following discs: 80 GB SATA attached to an onboard SiL SATA controller (uses sata_sil module) 80 GB SATA attached to the same SiL SATA controller 678 GB RAID-5 attached to a 3Ware 9500-series SATA controller (uses 3w-9xxx module) I've got the partition set up complete and it should be working fine, but I'm having technical difficulty getting it to actually install. Specifically: the two 80GB disks should be imported as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb (both during installation and afterwards). But they're not. The array exported from the 3Ware card is always mounted as /dev/sda (and, what's more, gets the grub stuff installed on it, along with the /boot partition). What I would like to do is change the order in which the disks are imported. I need the onboard disks to be mounted first, and the 3ware array to be mounted afterward. I would like the final configuration to be something like this: 80 GB onboard as /dev/sda: 100 MB ext3 partition as /boot 2 GB swap partition as swap max Linux-RAID partition 80 GB onboard as /dev/sdb: 100 MB ext3 partition as /boot-secondary (synced w/ unison from /boot) 2 GB swap partition as swap Max Linux-RAID partition Linux raid partitions joined as /dev/md0(RAID-1): Max ext3 partition as / 678 GB RAID-5 array as /dev/sdc: 678 LVM partition with 278 GB ext3 partition allocated and mounted as /space Leaving out, for the moment, the fact that this setup is kind of weird: Anyone have thoughts on how I might get the stupid boot order to change? Is there a way to specify that the hardware probe should check for SiL controllers before it checks for 3ware controllers? Help? Please? Thanks, Ian

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SLES9-SP1 autoyast not setting proxy-config correctly
by suselist＠nlsn.nu 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hi all, Are there any known bugs in autoyast for SLES9-SP1 that affects proxy-config? Our profiles set proxy, but its not set after install. / Daniel

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Adding the file "info" to an bootable CD/DVD
by Hans-Joachim Ehlers 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

Hi folks, Give 9.3 Suse Pro Booting from CD Installation from Network I would like to put the file "info" with is used by linuxrc on the installation cd because using an additional floppy causes to much trouble. But i am a little bit lost about howto do that. Do i have to change the isolinux.cfg ? Documentation tells me that the info file should be in initrd but i can not find that directory. ? Any tips ? tia Hajo ============================ Hans-Joachim Ehlers UNIX Systems Engineer EUMETSAT Am Kavalleriesand, 31 64295, Darmstadt, Germany Tel : +49 6151 807-7307 eMail : hansjoachim.ehlers(a)eumetsat.int iNet : www.eumetsat.de

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autoyast locked users with command file
by Evan Bills 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Hello, Is there a way to setup locked users with Autoyast? What I'm looking for is something similar to the command: 'passwd -l user' I can script this in, but would rather use real command file tags if they exist, and I'm not seeing a reference to them in the documentation. Thanks all! ~Evan Bills

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Question about ndiswrapper
by Malcom Kemp 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

This may be a little off subject, but if someone could point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it. I have 9.3 and am trying to get an unsupported WAN card to work. I have used Yast to install the ndiswrapper package, which it does. I have used the -i to install the driver, and with the -l option it tells me it is there and that it looks correct. When I try to modprobe ndiswrapper however, it gives me fatal error, "Module ndiswrapper not found". I removed the package and reinstalled it, but still have same error. How do I get the kernel module put on the system?

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] SLES9 + autoyast2
by Michael Marion 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

On 18 Aug, fisch wrote: > I want to create an autoyast config file from my system - is there any > way to import the complete system configuration? They removed the clearly understood "clone system" when sles9 came out.. but you can still do it. Start yast2, under Misc choose Autoinstallation, then Under "tools" choose "create reference profile." Now comes the completely non-intuitive part... do NOT check the boxes of the things you want cloned into the resulting xml file. If you check it, it then makes those bits "reference" settings. So basically, if you just leave everything unchecked, and click the "create" button, it should clone your system. You'll go back to the previous display and can now look at things like partitioning, or software, and see that it's set to the system's settings. Then you can save the file from the "file" menu. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com Alcohol and Calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive. ==> Another /. gem

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SLES9 + autoyast2
by fisch 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

hi, I want to create an autoyast config file from my system - is there any way to import the complete system configuration? bye fisch

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FYI: Configured xinetd service not active.
by Hans-Joachim Ehlers 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Problem. Configured xinetd service not active. Given from autoinst.xml created by autoyast ... <conf> <protocol>tcp</protocol> <script>rsh</script> <server>/usr/sbin/in.rshd</server> <service>shell</service> </conf> ... After automatic installation the service is not active: Extract from /etc/xinetd/rsh ... service shell { # server_args = /usr/sbin/in.rshd -L disable = yes ... } The yast log tells me: .... "inetd":$["last_created":0, "netd_conf":[$["protocol":"tcp", "script":"rsh", "server":"/usr/sbin/in.rshd", "service":false]], .... Solution: Found in the autoyast.pdf Guide: Add <enabled config:type="boolan">true</enabled> by hand. Since "yast autoyast" does not add this line to the xml file i would suggest it as a bug from what i know about autoyast. hth Hajo ============================ Hans-Joachim Ehlers UNIX Systems Engineer EUMETSAT Am Kavalleriesand, 31 64295, Darmstadt, Germany Tel : +49 6151 807-7307 eMail : hansjoachim.ehlers(a)eumetsat.int iNet : www.eumetsat.de

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RE: [suse-autoinstall] FYI: Configured xinetd service not active.
by fraser_bailey＠agilent.com 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

This has never worked since SUSE 9 started. -----Original Message----- From: Uwe Gansert [mailto:ug@suse.de] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 11:31 AM To: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] FYI: Configured xinetd service not active. On Thursday 18 August 2005 12:29, Martin Vidner wrote: > > Problem. Configured xinetd service not active. > > I will forward the report. Which product release is it? I check that too at the moment. At least SL10 beta1 is broken too. I try beta2 now (have to install it first on my test machine). -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nürnberg, Germany e-mail: uwe.gansert(a)suse.de, Tel: +49-(0)911-74053-0, Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de -- 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] FYI: Configured xinetd service not active.
by Hans-Joachim Ehlers 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Suse Pro 9.3 with autoyast2-installation-2.11.14-0.1 autoyast2-2.11.14-0.1 autoyast2-utils-2.11.14-0.1 hth Hajo >>> Martin Vidner <mvidner(a)suse.cz> 08/18/05 12:29 pm >>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:29:16AM +0200, Hans-Joachim Ehlers wrote: > Problem. Configured xinetd service not active. I will forward the report. Which product release is it? -- Martin Vidner, YaST developer SuSE CR, s.r.o. e-mail: mvidner(a)suse.cz Drahobejlova 27 tel:+420-296542390 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help(a)suse.com ============================ Hans-Joachim Ehlers UNIX Systems Engineer EUMETSAT Am Kavalleriesand, 31 64295, Darmstadt, Germany Tel : +49 6151 807-7307 eMail : hansjoachim.ehlers(a)eumetsat.int iNet : www.eumetsat.de

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