June 2006 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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Problems with bootloader configuration in autoyast SLES10 RC3
by Matt Gillard 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

I have logged SR#10273247971 for this but I thought I would get peoples thoughts here as well. Problem is with the <default> global parameter in the <bootloader> section of autoyast. This works fine: <bootloader> <loader_type>lilo</loader_type> <location>mbr</location> </bootloader> Default kernel is SLES_10 as expected. This doesnt work, during boot loader installation an error is given that there is no default value given in lilo.conf. This occurs if I put an entry in the <default> tag or not. <bootloader> <global> <default>SLES_10</default> <gfxmenu></gfxmenu> <prompt>1</prompt> <timeout config:type="integer">5</timeout> </global> <loader_type>lilo</loader_type> <location>mbr</location> </bootloader> ie: This also gives the same error for the default tag. It should default to SLES_10 - I should not have to specify it. <bootloader> <global> <default></default> <gfxmenu></gfxmenu> <prompt>1</prompt> <timeout config:type="integer">5</timeout> </global> <loader_type>lilo</loader_type> <location>mbr</location> </bootloader> And this also the same error: <bootloader> <global> <gfxmenu></gfxmenu> <prompt>1</prompt> <timeout config:type="integer">5</timeout> </global> <loader_type>lilo</loader_type> <location>mbr</location> </bootloader> The reason I am doing this is because I do *not* want a graphical menu so I want to specify nothing for <gfxmenu> which seems to work ok. The text of the error during the bootloader config/installation phase is: "Value expected for 'default' at or above line 11 in file /etc/lilo.conf." And sure enough in /mnt/etc/lilo.conf at that point of the installation default has no value. thanks -- Matt Gillard UNIX Systems Engineer Coles Myer Ltd | Lvl 4 236 Bourke St | +61 3 963 51926 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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RE: [suse-autoinstall] where do I get a usable 10.1 ISO image
by Matt Gillard 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

All those files should exist - the ones under x86_64 anyway. What do you see under x86_64 ? Perhaps bad apache config? Bad permissions? > -----Original Message----- > From: Lonni J Friedman [mailto:netllama@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, 29 June 2006 8:36 AM > To: Jesus Gonzalez > Cc: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] where do I get a usable 10.1 ISO image > > > On 6/28/06, Jesus Gonzalez <jgjnet(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > 2006/6/27, Lonni J Friedman <netllama(a)gmail.com>: > > > > > I feel like i'm talking to myself on this list. I'm > trying to used > > > autoyast to install suse-10.1, yet all I keep getting are > errors which > > > seem to suggest that I'm not using a valid installation > source. I've > > > tried the DVD image from the opensuse.org website, and also tried > > > pointing directly at a mirror (mirrors.kernel.org) Neither is > > > working. Surely I'm missing something very obvious, yet I can't > > > figure out what. > > > > > > The same autoyast.xml just works for both 10.0 & 9.3. > > > > > > Please, can someone point me to a known good installation > source for > > > 10.1 (x86 & x86_64) that autoyast won't barf at? many thanks. > > > > > > > > Perhaps you are facing the same "signature nightmare" I > found the first time > > I tried this new version. > > > > Try to add the following to your autoyast.xml: > > > > <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> > > </general> > > Tried this, no luck. I still get the same failure: > Could not set patterns/selections: Basis-Devel, > GNome,Kde,Kde-Desktop,Kernel-devel > > In y2log I see: > Bad media attach point: http://10.31.40.58/distros/suse/os/10.1/x86_64/ If I check the apache server's on 10.31.40.58 error_log I see the following: File does not exist: /storage/distributions/distros/suse/os/10.1/x86_64/media.1/installfiles File does not exist: /storage/distributions/distros/suse/os/10.1/x86_64/media.1/info.txt File does not exist: /storage/distributions/distros/suse/os/10.1/x86_64/part.info File does not exist: /storage/distributions/distros/suse/os/10.1/x86_64/driverupdate Anyone know why yast is looking for those files when they do not exist in the 10.1 installation source? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama(a)gmail.com LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org -- 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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FYI: adding own RPMs to a SLES10 inst. source
by Uwe Gansert 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hi, here is a small documentation how to add own RPMs to a SLES10/SL10.1 installation source. To create a tree with RPMs in parallel of your other installation source, use at least version 20060418 of create_update_source.sh from my SUSE Homepage (http://www.suse.de/~ug) The latest autoyast2-utils RPM will contain that script too. You can find documentation on how to use that script on my homepage. After you have created the tree with your own RPMS, you have two options· to tell autoyast about that new installation source. Either in the autoyast profile like this: > <add-on> > <add_on_products config:type="list"> > <listentry> > <media_url>http://192.168.66.1/SLES10/updates</media_url> > <product>SuSE-Linux-Updates</product> > <product_dir>/</product_dir> > </listentry> > </add_on_products> > </add-on> You can do that with the autoyast UI on SLES10/SL10.1 too. Or another option is to create a file called "add_on_products" on the main installation source. So it looks like this (the "updates" directory was created by the script): > #:/space/SLES10 # tree -L 1 > . > |-- ARCHIVES.gz > |-- COPYING > |-- COPYING.de > |-- COPYRIGHT > |-- COPYRIGHT.de > |-- ChangeLog > |-- INDEX.gz > |-- LICENSE.TXT > |-- NEWS > |-- README > |-- README.BETA > |-- README.BETA.DOS > |-- README.DOS > |-- add_on_products > |-- boot > |-- content > |-- control.xml > |-- directory.yast > |-- docu > |-- dosutils > |-- gpg-pubkey-0dfb3188-41ed929b.asc > |-- gpg-pubkey-1d061a62-427a396f.asc > |-- gpg-pubkey-307e3d54-44201d5d.asc > |-- gpg-pubkey-3d25d3d9-36e12d04.asc > |-- gpg-pubkey-9c800aca-40d8063e.asc > |-- ls-lR.gz > |-- media.1 > |-- pubring.gpg > |-- suse > `-- updates > > #:/space/SLES10 # cat add_on_products > http://192.168.66.1/SLES10/updates With that file on the installation source, you don't need to specify the additional installation sources in the autoyast profile. You can mix those two options. So it's possible to specify one installation source in the autoyast profile and another one in the "add_on_products"-file. The "add_on_products"-file is not supported by autoyast in RC1 but will be with later versions. I hope that helps. -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, 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

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Missing Default timeout in bootp
by Folkhard Mueller 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Dear Comrade Admins, I have a small but nasty problem with autoinstall. I use SuSE Linux 10.0's autoyast. All is fine but after all packages are installed the system is prepared for the first initial boot. In this step there is obvioulsy the boot timeout set to 0 which means the system waits forever to boot. One Return plugged in on the Keyboard is enough and ibooting occurs successfully. The boot timeout in the final system is o.k. (set to 8 as defined in the bootlader section of the controlfile ) by: snip.. <global_entry> <key>timeout</key> <value config:type="integer">8</value> </global_entry> snap.. Any hints ? -- |\ _,,,---,,_ ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ _______|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ (____-'_________________________________________ '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Dipl. Phys. F.Mueller EPCOS AG Surface Acoustic Wave Components Division SAW RD CAD P.O. Box 80 17 09 Phone: ++49 89 636 23316 D-81617 Munich Fax: ++49 89 636 27304 Germany mailto: Folkhard.Mueller(a)epcos.com Web: http://www.epcos.com

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] where do I get a usable 10.1 ISO image
by Lonni J Friedman 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

On 6/28/06, Matt Gillard <Matt.Gillard(a)colesmyer.com.au> wrote: > > post your autoyast.xml file as well. ok, i've uploaded my autoyast.xml to http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/autoyast.xml thanks -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama(a)gmail.com LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org

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RE: [suse-autoinstall] SLES 10 RC2 remove-packages section?
by Matt Gillard 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Anyone got this to work for SLES10 RC3 ? I tried and it didnt seem to work...trying to get rid of: ppp smpppd pptp wvdial (to start with anyway) matt > -----Original Message----- > From: Uwe Gansert [mailto:ug@suse.de] > Sent: Tuesday, 20 June 2006 2:12 AM > To: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] SLES 10 RC2 remove-packages section? > > > On Thursday 01 June 2006 14:45, Timothy Wright wrote: > > > Is <remove-packages> supported in SLES 10 RC2? The > following was setup to > > test... > > > > <software> > > <patterns config:type="list"> > > <pattern>base</pattern> > > <pattern>apparmor</pattern> > > </patterns> > > <remove-packages config:type="list"> > > <package>mutt</package> > > </remove-packages> > > </software> > > fixed for RC3 > > -- > ciao, Uwe Gansert > > Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany > e-mail: uwe.gansert(a)suse.de > Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de/~ug > > -- > 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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script/rule?
by Salbeck, Christian, MSOP51 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hi there mailing-list, I try to install with autoyast and i do not have that much experience with it! Here's what I need your help for: I want to source a script as a post install script, but I don't want to edit each of my .xml-file (about 100). Can't I put that script on the install server? thanx for any help! mit freundlichen Grüssen Salbeck Christian Dipl.-Ing.(FH) www.eads.com <http://www.eads.com/> EADS Deutschland GmbH Coastal Surveillance Systems MSOP51 Landshuter Straße 26 85716 Unterschleißheim Germany <http://link2.map24.com/?street0=Landshuter+Str.+26&zip0=85716&city0=Untersc…> Phone: +49 (089) 3179 - 2102 E-Mail christian.salbeck(a)eads.com <mailto:christian.salbeck@eads.com>

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script/rule?
by Salbeck, Christian, MSOP51 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hi there mailing-list, I try to install with autoyast and i do not have that much experience with it! Here's what I need your help for: I want to source a script as a post install script, but I don't want to edit each of my .xml-file (about 100). Can't I put that script on the install server? thanx for any help! mit freundlichen Grüssen Salbeck Christian Dipl.-Ing.(FH) www.eads.com <http://www.eads.com/> EADS Deutschland GmbH Coastal Surveillance Systems MSOP51 Landshuter Straße 26 85716 Unterschleißheim Germany <http://link2.map24.com/?street0=Landshuter+Str.+26&zip0=85716&city0=Untersc…> Phone: +49 (089) 3179 - 2102 E-Mail christian.salbeck(a)eads.com <mailto:christian.salbeck@eads.com>

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