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!
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
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> 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.
>
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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
Hallo,
what am I doing wrong here?
I have a setup with three linux partitions, that should be reused (formatted
but not created) on installation.
I need to keep AutoYaST from creating his own partitions since I use
reborn network cards that do the partitioning themselves, which is
a common setup in a school like ours.
I followed the documentation and created this partitioning section:
--------------------------------------------------------
<partitioning config:type="list">
<drive>
<device>/dev/hda</device>
<partitions config:type="list">
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
<format config:type="boolean">true</format>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
<mount>/boot</mount>
<partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
<partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr>
</partition>
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
<format config:type="boolean">true</format>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
<mount>/</mount>
<partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
<partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr>
</partition>
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
<format config:type="boolean">true</format>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
<mount>swap</mount>
<partition_id config:type="integer">130</partition_id>
<partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr>
</partition>
</partitions>
</drive>
</partitioning>
-------------------------------------------------------
With this setup, AutoYaST reuses hda1 as boot as expected but
creates a new partition hda4 as root.
The partition table ist:
------------------------------------------------------
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 184391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 2883 5432 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 5433 5560 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 14 2882 83 Linux (this one is created by AutoYaST).
------------------------------------------------------
"fdisk" tells me that the partitions are not in disk order.
Has anyone an idea about this?
I used this setup for a while already and experimented a lot with different
"partitioning" sections but I can't keep AutoYaST from creating his
own partition.
Any help appreciated.
Bye,
Frank
Frank Schuette, Gymnasium Himmelsthuer, Germany
fschuett(a)gymnasium-himmelsthuer.de
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Dear List,
Having recently resurrected my info file using the kernel parameter
info=file:///info I get prompted (by linuxrc?) to enter a VNC password.
The info file on the initrd has this:
install: ...
autoyast: ...
loghost: ....
vnc: 1
vncpassword: thepassword
And in addition the kernel command line includes:
append initrd=initrd splash=silent showopts
install=... autoyast= ... vnc=1
vncpassword=thepassword info=file:///info
(without the line-breaks of course.)
Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?
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Uwe Gansert <ug(a)suse.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 January 2007 18:30, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
>
> > I try to install openSUSE 10.2 on a hp dl 385. unfortunately the parted
> > tool in the 10.2 is unable to partition the disk on the cciss controller.
>
> why? Does it work in a manual installation?
no, it is this bug:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=228707
(just found it, maybe I work around it, as there suggested replacing
the /usr/lib64/liby2storage.so.2.0.0)
>
> > I can partition it before I start autoyast, but I am wondering how to
> > tell the autoyast process to just only using the partitions as they are,
> > format them and setup the mount points in fstab accordingly.
>
> set <create ...>false</create>
> <format ...>true</format>
> and set the correct <partition_nr ...>
thanks a lot, this is what I needed, and sounds way easier, than replacing
some files ....
kind regards
Sebastian
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Hi all,
I try to install openSUSE 10.2 on a hp dl 385. unfortunately the parted tool
in the 10.2 is unable to partition the disk on the cciss controller.
I can partition it before I start autoyast, but I am wondering how to tell the
autoyast process to just only using the partitions as they are, format them
and setup the mount points in fstab accordingly.
kind regards
Sebastian
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This is a bit OT, apologies in advance.
This message is about two things. One is a question about adding
checksums for certain files which checksums rug/zypper complains are
missing and the other is that the instructions for create_update_source
may need updating.
The following is what zypper sa complains about:
$ sudo zypper sa \
> nfs://svr.cl.cam.ac.uk/vol/vol3/sys-li9/suse-10.2/updates
> \
> SUSE-10.2-CL-updates
root's password:
6733 zmd
ZENworks Management Daemon is running.
WARNING: this command will not synchronize changes.
Use rug or yast2 for that.
Determining
nfs://svr.cl.cam.ac.uk/vol/vol3/sys-li9/suse-10.2/updates source
type...
.. not YUM
nfs://svr.cl.cam.ac.uk/vol/vol3/sys-li9/suse-10.2/updates is type
YaST
No digest for ./suse/setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV, continue [y/n]y
No digest for ./suse/setup/descr/packages, continue [y/n]y
No digest for ./suse/setup/descr/packages.DU, continue [y/n]y
No digest for ./suse/setup/descr/packages.en, continue [y/n]y
Added Installation Sources:
[x]* SUSE-10.2-CL-updates
To set this update source up I am using the script create_update_source
in the inst-source-utils RPM and a version of the instructions provided
here:
http://www.suse.com/~ug/
and here:
http://en.opensuse.org/Inst-source-utils
These instructions may need updating because I had problems specifying a
name for the update source directory. In the crib below, BASE is set to
the top-level of my network installation source. The difference between
this and the instructions on the web page above is that I no longer can
choose the sub-directory name to be e.g. myInstallSource as they
suggest, rather create_update_source always creates $TARGET/updates
where $TARGET is whatever directory name is the parameter.
VERSION=10.2
BASE=/usr/groups/suse-$VERSION
KEYID=rpm-packager
RPMS=/global/src/RPMS/
# Build the repository
cd $BASE
create_update_source.sh ./
for arch in i386 i586 i686 x86_64 ; do
mkdir -p updates/suse/$arch
cp $RPMS/*.$arch.rpm updates/suse/$arch/
done
cd updates/suse/
create_package_descr -x setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV
cd setup/descr/
ls > directory.yast
# Sign it
cd $BASE/updates
gpg --export --armor $KEYID > content.key
gpg -b --sign --armor -u $KEYID content
ls > directory.yast
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Hi Uwe,
Uwe Gansert <ug(a)suse.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 25 January 2007 08:34, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
>
> > Do I can tell autoyast to use eth1 for installation, if yes, how?
>
> SUSE Linux version?
> try netdevice=eth1
>
thanks a lot, that works.
Sebastian
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Hi list,
I have a notebook, where the wireless card is detected as eth0. I generally do
not want to configure this card generally, but also do not want to deactivate
it in the bios, to be able to configure it when necessary.
Without a configuration of that interface, autoyast stops and asks me for the
essid and wep key.
Do I can tell autoyast to use eth1 for installation, if yes, how?
kind regards
Sebastian
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