December 2006 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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AutoYaST - Not skipping second stage (SuSE 10.1)?
by Justin McCormick 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Hello folks! I'm developing a provisioning system, and am trying to fully automate the install of SuSE as a part of the system.... I need the install to be 100% automated, from booting up, doing the install, and then booting the system. Needs to be completely a hands off install.... and I've setup a very basic config file as a test, but for some reason it does not skip the second stage of the install. I've searched around to no avail, maybe I am missing something? A second thing, unrelated to the second stage of the install that I've noticed, is for some reason when the first stage of the install finishes, the system reboots but it seems to hang on trying to boot. Never loads a kernel, never says anything at all actually after the initial BIOS screens. Could that be an issue with not specifying or setting up a bootloader in the config file? Or any other ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated! - Justin (jlmccorm at gmail dot com) Below is the autoyast.xml file I'm using: (For SuSE 10.1) <?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"> <general> <signature-handling> <accept_unsigned_file config:type="boolean">true</accept_unsigned_file> <accept_file_without_checksum config:type="boolean">true</accept_file_without_checksum> <accept_verification_failed config:type="boolean">true</accept_verification_failed> <accept_unknown_gpg_key config:type="boolean">true</accept_unknown_gpg_key> </signature-handling> <mode> <halt config:type="boolean">false</halt> <onfirm config:type="boolean">false</confirm> <second_stage config:type="boolean">false</second_stage> </mode> </general> <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <use>all</use> </drive> </partitioning> <software> <base>Minimal</base> <packages config:type="list"> <package>tftp</package> </packages> </software> <networking> <dns> <dhcp_hostname config:type="boolean">true</dhcp_hostname> <dhcp_resolv config:type="boolean">true</dhcp_resolv> <domain>local</domain> <hostname>linux</hostname> </dns> </networking> <users config:type="list"> <user> <encrypted config:type="boolean">false</encrypted> <username>root</username> <user_password>myunsafeplaintextpw</user_password> <forename/> <surname/> </user> <user> <encrypted config:type="boolean">false</encrypted> <username>myuser</username> <user_password>myotherunsafepw</user_password> <forename/> <surname/> </user> </users> <scripts> <chroot-scripts config:type="list"> <script> <chrooted config:type="boolean">true</chrooted> <filename>kspost</filename> <interpreter>shell</interpreter> <source> <![CDATA[ #/bin/sh echo "get finished_suse_01-00-02-55-57-1b-bf" | /usr/bin/tftp 192.168.0.3 & sleep 1 killall tftp ]]> </source> </script> </chroot-scripts> </scripts> </profile>

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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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