November 2006 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

linuxrc - netdevice=<hwaddress>
by John Willis 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Does anyone know if any of the SLES releases 9 or 10 support passing the linuxrc option netdevice=<hardware mac address> ? I noticed Red Hat has had this for sometime and it seems totally missing in SuSE which seems really odd. I'm still scratching my head if we really are still passing only by kernel interface name. I read in the change log for linuxrc-1.8.6-3 a change that "sounds" like this feature. * Mon Mar 14 2005 - snwint(a)suse.de - s390: fix segfault in net_list_s390_devs() - extra root image was sometimes not used - allow netdevices to be specified by hwaddress But it looks like linuxrc-1.8.6-3 is only available in SuSE Professional 9.3. "any" commentary would be sincerely appreciated the feature also seems to be fairly minor since any delimiter seperating the octets in the hwaddr string could be used to identify the difference between an interface name and interface hw address if i could figure out a generic method of overriding the linuxrc with a custom script and daisy chain it back into linuxrc after setting up the interface name, I would.. and have a slight idea on how to do that.. but i'd rather find out i'm just missing something and the feature is already there Thanks!

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RE: [suse-autoinstall] SLES 10 RC2 remove-packages section?
by Matt Gillard 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

I dont have kinternet installed. This is what doesnt seem to work: <software> <patterns config:type="list"> <pattern>default</pattern> <pattern>Basis-Devel</pattern> <pattern>x11</pattern> </patterns> <packages config:type="list"> <packages>perl-libwww-perl</packages> <packages>net-snmp</packages> <packages>kernel-source</packages> </packages> <remove-packages config:type="list"> <packages>pptp</packages> <packages>smpppd</packages> <packages>ppp</packages> <packages>wvdial</packages> <packages>mutt</packages> </remove-packages> </software> In y2log it mentions that those packages should be removed, but it goes ahead and installs them anyway. I can do it manually on the command line: # rpm -e pptp smpppd ppp wvdial mutt and that works fine so I know I have no dependency problems. matt > -----Original Message----- > From: Uwe Gansert [mailto:ug@suse.de] > Sent: Friday, 30 June 2006 12:50 AM > To: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] SLES 10 RC2 remove-packages section? > > > On Thursday 29 June 2006 16:45, Manfred Hollstein wrote: > > > If that fails, you have kinternet installed; add that to > the list and it > > should work. > > good point. > <remove-packages> can not break dependencies and so it's very > likely that > there is still a package that needs those packages. > I did a very small installation with no X - so it worked for me. > > -- > ciao, Uwe Gansert > > Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany > Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de/~ug > now playing Covenant - Wasteland > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help(a)suse.com > > This email and any attachments may contain privileged and confidential information and are intended for the named addressee only. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail immediately. Any confidentiality, privilege or copyright is not waived or lost because this e-mail has been sent to you in error. It is your responsibility to check this e-mail and any attachments for viruses. No warranty is made that this material is free from computer virus or any other defect or error. Any loss/damage incurred by using this material is not the sender's responsibility. The sender's entire liability will be limited to resupplying the material.

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Scripting dirinstall?
by Teun 25 Feb '07

25 Feb '07

Does anyone know if it is possible to use the 'dirinstall' from the command line? For instance i would like to be able to do something like: # yast dirinstall -d /someroot -s mypackages.sel If i do yast -h it says: "Usage: /sbin/yast [OPTIONS] [MODULE] [module specific parameters]" But is there a way to find out what 'module specific parameters' are available for a specific module? Thanks, Teun

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Installing from locally attached Raid?
by Frank Steiner 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

Hi, is it possible to use a locally attached raid storage as installation source for autoyast? I.e., boot our NFS server (that usually serves the autoyast install repository via NFS to the clients) from a second dhcp/tftp server, but then let it mount it's raid locally and install from there. So sth. like "install=local://..." or whatever. Assuming the neccessary modules are preloaded. Is that possible? cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *

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Problems using a HTTP Repository and LVM Partitioning
by Marko Karg 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Hi all, I am experiencing problems while the installation of SLES 9 with the following setup: A HTTP Repository holds the complete installation media and the autoyast xml control files. Booting the machine which is about to be installed works as far as it concerns reading the control file, partitioning the harddisk and starting the installation. The partition table looks as the following: /boot 100M /swap memory-dependant LVM containing / /usr /var /opt /srv The installation stops with this error message: ERROR(Media:Unknown error in subsystem)[/var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000002/MEDIA/media.2] If I do not use LVM the installation proceeds smoothly. Any help is appreciated! Kind regards Marko

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SLES10: console_shutdown
by Bernhard Duebi 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Hello, it's me again. I have the following line in my autoinst.xml <console_shutdown>ignore</console_shutdown> But in /etc/inittab I find the following line ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r -t 4 now With SLES9 this was no problem. Any idea what's wrong ? Sincerely Bernhard

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lvm on top of raid?
by Jochen Schaefer 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Hi list, could somebody help out with the attached xml-snippet please? I can't find the error in the partitioning section. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jochen -- Jochen Schaefer Senior Consultant Integrated Services Novell GmbH Mobil: +49(0)1735876969 E-mail: jschaef(a)novell.com Address: Duesseldorf , 40470, Germany Noerdlicher Zubringer 9-11 http://www.novell.com

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partition_type
by Jochen Schaefer 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Hi, which is the correct entry for an extended partition_type: <partition_type> extended</partition_type> ? Thanks, Jochen -- Jochen Schaefer Senior Consultant Integrated Services Novell GmbH Mobil: +49(0)1735876969 E-mail: jschaef(a)novell.com Address: Duesseldorf , 40470, Germany Noerdlicher Zubringer 9-11 http://www.novell.com

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lvm on top of raid
by Jochen Schaefer 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

Hi, is it possible to setup lvm on top of raid via autoyast? Can someone provide an example please? Thanks, Jochen -- Jochen Schaefer Senior Consultant Integrated Services Novell GmbH Mobil: +49(0)1735876969 E-mail: jschaef(a)novell.com Address: Duesseldorf , 40470, Germany Noerdlicher Zubringer 9-11 http://www.novell.com

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autoyast on IBM PPC error
by GABRIEL KAPITANY 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Hi Guys, I still having problem using autoinstall on SuSE 10 PPC on IBM LPAR. I have tftpboot set up pointing to inst64 image and parameters passed: mkzimage_cmdline -a 1 -c -s "insmod=ibmveth hostip=10.1.245.201 netmask=255.255.0.0 install=nfs://10.1.5.130/images/SUSE10PPC autoyast=nfs://10.1.5.130/images/SUSE10PPC/autoinst.xml" inst64 I use a very simple profile file (I've tried a few combinations): <?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"> <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <use>all</use> </drive> </partitioning> <software> <base>default</base> </software> <users config:type="list"> <user> <encrypted config:type="boolean">false</encrypted> <user_password>test123</user_password> <username>root</username> </user> </users> </profile> The partition boots, and I can see in the logs that the NFS partition gets mounted and the a get the error below. Search on Google for the error didn't shed any light on the source of the problem. [boot]0100 MM Init [boot]0100 MM Init Done Linux version 2.6.16.21-0.8-ppc64 (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Mon Jul 3 18:25:39 UTC 2006 [boot]0012 Setup Arch Node 0 Memory: Node 1 Memory: Node 2 Memory: 0x0-0x28000000 Node 3 Memory: 0x28000000-0x40000000 EEH: PCI Enhanced I/O Error Handling Enabled PPC64 nvram contains 7168 bytes Using shared processor idle loop [boot]0015 Setup Done Built 4 zonelists Kernel command line: insmod=ibmveth hostip=10.1.245.201 netmask=255.255.0.0 install=nfs://10.1.5.130/images/SUSE10PPC autoyast=nfs://10.1.5.130/images/SUSE10PPC/autoinst.xml [boot]0020 XICS Init xics: no ISA interrupt controller [boot]0021 XICS Done PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 131072 bytes) time_init: decrementer frequency = 238.055000 MHz . . . . Found a kterm terminal on /dev/console (80 columns x 24 lines). *** Starting YaST2 *** /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.call: line 306: 2938 Aborted (core dumped) $OPT_FBITERM y2base "$Y2_MODULE_NAME" $Y2_MODE_FLAGS $Y2_MODULE_ARGS $Y2_MODE $Y2_UI_ARGS *** An error occurred during the installation. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Gabriel

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