September 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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Kernel Options
by discip＠pjm.com 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Is there an easy way to automatically append an option to the default kernel that is installed? Or do I need to hack at this with some perl? Thanks, Paul

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RE: [suse-autoinstall] autoyast freezes
by Marlier, Ian 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

> I'm doing an autoyast install with a SuSE 10.0 DVD. > First I have a problem with booting it up. It stops > at setting dhcp. I have three NICs in the box. > It will not work with the Intel(e1000) and couple of > RTL based. > > The only way I managed to boot thing up is trough an > RTL based NIC and by NFS based install. I chose > NFS server and dir, put the autoyast line and system > boots but only after it fails to dhcp on intel NIC. I'm assuming that you're using PXE to pass the install initrd and everything? Assuming so, you might try pausing the PXE process when the Intel NIC is trying to get an IP address, by hitting the "Pause/Break" key on your keyboard. Let it sit for about 30-60 seconds, and then hit space to start the process back up. (This situation -- where the NIC is on a network with DHCP, but doesn't get an address -- can be an indication that negotiation between the NIC and the switch to which it's network is taking a while -- and that the PXE process times out before the link is negotiated and brought up. It's happened with some of my machines, though only in cases where the networking hardware behind them is Cisco)

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RE: [suse-autoinstall] Kernel Options
by GUNREBEN, PETER (Peter) 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

Paul, discip(a)pjm.com wrote: > discip(a)pjm.com wrote: > > Is there an easy way to automatically append an option to the > > default kernel that is installed? > > Or do I need to hack at this with some perl?> > > [...] > > Perfect! If autoyast actually created a valid document that > I could validate, or if there was a DTD available, I would > not have these issues. 1) You can use "yast2 autoyast" to generate or edit the XML-Files. Actually the XML-Code I've provided was generated using "yast2 autoyast". 2) There are DTD files available, see /usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/profile.dtd in RPM-Package: autoyast2-installation-2.13.56-3 Peter.

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autoyast freezes
by Babarovic Ivica 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

Hi! I'm doing an autoyast install with a SuSE 10.0 DVD. First I have a problem with booting it up. It stops at setting dhcp. I have three NICs in the box. It will not work with the Intel(e1000) and couple of RTL based. The only way I managed to boot thing up is trough an RTL based NIC and by NFS based install. I chose NFS server and dir, put the autoyast line and system boots but only after it fails to dhcp on intel NIC. Ok ... I've managed to somehow install the system with hopefully correct xml setup file. The way I got this file is I first manually installed the system, exported the xml file with autoyast's tools menu and then edited that file untill it finally passed trough. Anyway ... now installation stops at first stage and box just freezes up. It will not reboot. After manually rebooting I get stuck at the grub prompt. I can see that menu.lst file is almost empty. What might be causing this? Best regards, I.B.

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RE: [suse-autoinstall] Kernel Options
by GUNREBEN, PETER (Peter) 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

Paul, discip(a)pjm.com wrote: > Is there an easy way to automatically append an option to the > default kernel that is installed? > Or do I need to hack at this with some perl? What about: ================ <bootloader> <activate config:type="boolean">true</activate> <global> <default></default> <embed_stage1.5 config:type="boolean">false</embed_stage1.5> <gfxmenu>/boot/message</gfxmenu> <prompt>1</prompt> <timeout config:type="integer">8</timeout> </global> <loader_device></loader_device> <loader_type>grub</loader_type> <location>mbr</location> <repl_mbr config:type="boolean">true</repl_mbr> <sections config:type="list"> <section> <append> splash=silent showopts ***MYOPTIONS*** </append> <initrd>/boot/initrd</initrd> <kernel>/boot/vmlinuz</kernel> <name>SuSE 10.1</name> <original_name>linux</original_name> <root></root> <type>image</type> <vga></vga> </section> </sections> </bootloader> ================ You can create this also with "yast2 autoyast", of course. Peter.

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Online Update not functioning after autoinstall
by Marlier, Ian 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

Hey, all -- Working on autobuilding with SUSE 10.1. I've got a local install source, rsynced from mirrors.kernel.org (I think it was). The installation works fine, but after install, Online Updates doesn't function. The error that I get when trying to configure Online Update is "No products to register". It looks like that error is thrown when the products returned by `/usr/lib64/zmd/query-pool products` don't intersect with Novell's list of supported SUSE products. And yet... [root@(fts0/dbopteron5):~]# /usr/lib64/zmd/query-pool products |product|SUSE-Linux-10.1-FTP|10.1-0|x86_64 [root@(fts0/dbopteron5):~]# and SUSE-Linux-10.1-FTP is one of the products returned by novell's registration server... This does NOT happen if I install manually, using the same local source (that's why I'm sending this here...) Has anyone: - Seen this? - Fixed this? If not, is it a bug with autoyast, or a bug more generally with zmd?

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FW: Autoyast fails when trying to mount /boot with other EVMS Partitions
by Niall Calvert 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

I've being trying to identify a solution to an autoinstall problem for several weeks now without success and would appreciate some assistance. I'm trying to install sles10 from media located on a hard-drive partition, which was copied from the installation DVD. The problem does not occur when installing from the DVD using the same autoinst.xml file. I get the following error message after the volumes and boot partition has been formatted: Failure occurred during following action: Mount /dev/sda1 to /boot System error code was -3003 mount -t reiserfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or /mnt/boot busy >From spare console I see that nothing is mounted to /boot when the error occurs. However sda1 shows under /dev/evms so I suspect that sda1 is being used by EVMS in error. I tried applying the 'sles10_root_fix_v0.2' that I found on the Autoyast download area however this causes a different error. Thanks in advance for any suggestions on how to fix the problem. Best regards Niall Logs etc below. Grub Boot Config kernel (hd1,0)/boot/x86_64/loader/linux splash=verbose showopts ip=dhcp ramdisk_size=65536 install=hd://sdb3/software/sles10/sles10dvd/. autoyast=device://sdb1/autoinst.xml initrd (hd1,0)/boot/x86_64/loader/initrd Tail of Y2log file 2006-09-10 03:04:53,555 INFO libstorage(3024) - Volume.cc(checkDevice):962 checkDevice:/dev/sda1 ret:0 2006-09-10 03:04:53,555 INFO libstorage(3024) - SystemCmd.cc(SystemCmd):44 Konstruktor SystemCmd Nr:0 2006-09-10 03:04:53,555 INFO libstorage(3024) - Volume.cc(mount):1621 device:/dev/sda1 mp:/mnt/boot 2006-09-10 03:04:53,555 INFO libstorage(3024) - Volume.cc(mount):1626 device:/dev/sda1 mp:/mnt/boot 2006-09-10 03:04:53,555 INFO libstorage(3024) - SystemCmd.cc(execute):160 SystemCmd Executing:"modprobe reiserfs" 2006-09-10 03:04:53,563 INFO libstorage(3024) - SystemCmd.cc(doExecute):305 system() Returns:0 2006-09-10 03:04:53,563 INFO libstorage(3024) - SystemCmd.cc(execute):160 SystemCmd Executing:"mount -t reiserfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot" 2006-09-10 03:04:53,572 INFO libstorage(3024) - SystemCmd.cc(addLine):625 Adding Line 1 "mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or /mnt/boot busy" 2006-09-10 03:04:53,572 INFO libstorage(3024) - SystemCmd.cc(getUntilEOF):591 pid:3902 added lines:1 stderr:1 2006-09-10 03:04:53,572 INFO libstorage(3024) - SystemCmd.cc(doExecute):305 system() Returns:32 2006-09-10 03:04:53,572 INFO libstorage(3024) - SystemCmd.cc(logOutput):636 stderr:mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or /mnt/boot busy 2006-09-10 03:04:53,572 INFO libstorage(3024) - Volume.cc(mount):1667 ret:-3003 2006-09-10 03:04:53,572 INFO libstorage(3024) - Volume.cc(doMount):1011 ret:-3003 2006-09-10 03:04:53,572 INFO libstorage(3024) - Container.cc(commitChanges):148 ret:-3003 2006-09-10 03:04:53,572 INFO libstorage(3024) - Disk.cc(commitChanges):1618 ret:-3003 2006-09-10 03:04:53,572 INFO libstorage(3024) - Storage.cc(commitPair):3251 err at stage:3 type:1 cont:0 dest:0 name:sda1 2006-09-10 03:04:53,572 INFO libstorage(3024) - Storage.cc(ignoreError):3180 ret:0 2006-09-10 03:04:53,572 INFO libstorage(3024) - Storage.cc(commitPair):3259 stage:3 evms_activate:0 new_pair:0 2006-09-10 03:04:53,573 INFO libstorage(3024) - Storage.cc(commitPair):3272 ret:-3003 2006-09-10 03:04:53,573 INFO libstorage(3024) - Storage.cc(commit):3150 empty:1 2006-09-10 03:04:53,573 INFO libstorage(3024) - Storage.cc(commit):3158 ret:-3003 2006-09-10 03:04:53 <3> linux(3024) [YCP] Storage.ycp:3016 CommitChanges sint ret:-3003 2006-09-10 03:04:53 <1> linux(3024) [YCP] clients/inst_prepdisk.ycp:97 CommitChanges ret:-3003 Partitions / Volumes Sda1 - boot / and Swap lvm2 volumes in same evms container

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