October 2007 - 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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[opensuse-autoinstall] fetch profile via nfs in 10.3
by Ulrich Hoelscher 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Hi, in 10.2 I deploy the autoyast profiles via nfs, this works out of the box. To use it I call autoyast=nfs://.../autoinst.xml If i try it with 10.3 this is not possible. The installation sources are also deployed via nfs, which works fine. After starting the installation in autoyast mode it not possible to mount the nfs share. The reason is the locks can not be handled. As a work around I use http to deploy the profiles and nfs to deploy the rpms. Is this a bug or a desired feature? regards Ulrich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] is it possible to install latest SLES 10 SP1 patches during autoinstall?
by Chris Partridge 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

I am using SLES 10 SP1 and AutoYaST. I have my autoyast profile setup to configure Novell Customer Center with the correct registration code and I verified that my server gets registered with NCC. Now I'd like to have AutoYaST install all the latest patches at the appropriate place during auto-installation. Is this possible? Thanks, Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] apache configuration with sles10 sp1
by Rich 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

we are trying to use same autoyast profile created for sles10 for sles10sp1. after solving some minor kernel and nfs issues, an interesting problem with apache has popped up. after autoinstallation process has finished, default-server.conf is empty (0 size). if i now remove apache, then install it again, the file is correctly created. is there some change in autoyast profile needed (i have searched archives, but found nothing), or is there a problem with autoinstallation process ? -- Rich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] Problems with create_update_source.sh for 10.3
by Ian Grant 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

Hi Uwe, List, I am trying to set up a parallel update tree to the oss repository for opensuse-10.3 and not having much success, though I used this successfully in 10.1 and 10.2. I have tried to follow the various directions on using inst-source-utils from http://en.opensuse.org/Inst-source-utils and Uwe's page (entry for create_update_source.sh Version 20060925) http://www.suse.de/~ug/ These are slightly contradictory though and I have tended towards the ones on the Inst-source-utils page as they seem to be more recent. I have tried both inst-source-utils-2006.11.21-2 (from opensuse 10.2) and inst-source-utils-2007.9.26-4 from 10.3 to the same effect. I have a directory into which I have put a mirror of the oss repository, this is the $(BASE) macro in the Makefile below. Basically I type 'make' and it goes and does the steps in the all: target. But when I try to add the repository using 'zypper sa' it complains that ./suse/setup/descr/packages is missing, but there is such a file in the repository, provided ./ is taken to be the top-level oss/update directory. Here is the error in detail, and below that is my Makefile. $ sudo zypper sa nfs://host.cl.cam.ac.uk/suse-10.3/oss/updates \ opensuse-10.3-CL-extras * Adding repository 'opensuse-10.3-CL-extras' Repository 'opensuse-10.3-CL-extras' successfully added: Enabled: Yes Autorefresh: Yes URL: nfs://elmer.cl.cam.ac.uk/vol/vol3/sys-li9/suse-10.3/oss/updates carlit:repos$ sudo zypper search mlton Refreshing 'opensuse-10.3-CL-extras' * Building repository 'opensuse-10.3-CL-extras' cache Error parsing metadata for 'opensuse-10.3-CL-extras': /var/cache/zypp/raw/opensuse-10.3-CL-extras: Required file is missing: ./suse/setup/descr/packages This may be caused by invalid metadata in the repository, or by a bug in the met adata parser. In the latter case, or if in doubt, please, file a bug report by f ollowing instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper#Troubleshooting Disabling repository 'opensuse-10.3-CL-extras' because of the above error. * Reading installed packages [100%] No resolvables found. $ ============================================================== And here's the Makefile ============================================================== VERSION=10.3 REPO=oss BASE=/usr/groups/suse-$(VERSION)/$(REPO) KEYID=rpm-packager EXTRA_RPMS=extra-rpms .phony : all sign-rpms sign-repo build-repo update-checksums all : build-repo update-checksums sign-repo sign-rpms : rpm --define '_signature gpg' \ --define '_gpg_name <rpm-packager(a)cl.cam.ac.uk>' \ --quiet --resign $(EXTRA_RPMS)/*/*.rpm 2>&1 | grep -v 'skipping$$' build-repo : -rm -rf $(BASE)/updates ( cd $(BASE) && create_update_source.sh . ) cd $(EXTRA_RPMS) ; \ for arch in * ; do \ mkdir -p $(BASE)/updates/suse/$$arch ; \ cp $$arch/*.rpm $(BASE)/updates/suse/$$arch ; \ done update-checksums : cd $(BASE)/updates/suse/ && \ create_package_descr -x setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV ; \ cd setup/descr/ && \ create_directory.yast . && \ create_md5sums . && \ cp $(BASE)/gpg-pubkey-*.asc $(BASE)/updates sign-repo : cd $(BASE)/updates && \ gpg --export --armor $(KEYID) > content.key ; \ gpg -b --sign --armor -u $(KEYID) content ; \ ls > directory.yast ==================================================================== Here is what looks like the relevant part of the zypper log when I try the refresh ===================================================================== 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <1> carlit(11565) [zypp] RepoManager.cc(checkIfToRefreshMetadata):438 Repository 'opensuse- 10.3-CL-extras' has been refreshed less than repo.refresh.delay (10) minutes ago. Advising to skip refresh 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <1> carlit(11565) [zypper] zypper-sources.cc(refresh_repos):580 calling buildCache 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <5> carlit(11565) [Measure] Measure.cc(Impl):152 START MEASURE(Check tables exist) 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <5> carlit(11565) [Measure] Measure.cc(elapsed):174 ELAPSED(Check tables exist) 0 (u 0.00 s 0.00 c 0.00) 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <5> carlit(11565) [Measure] Measure.cc(~Impl):160 MEASURE(Check tables exist) 0 (u 0.00 s 0 .00 c 0.00) [0 (u 0.00 s 0.00 c 0.00)] 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <1> carlit(11565) [zypp] CacheInitializer.cc(CacheInitializer):97 Repository cache already initialized 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <1> carlit(11565) [zypp] RepoManager.cc(buildCache):691 opensuse-10.3-CL-extras building ca che... 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <2> carlit(11565) [parser::susetags] RepoParser.cc(assertMandatoryFile):222 /var/cache/zypp /raw/opensuse-10.3-CL-extras: Skip gz required file (will look for non-gz): ./content.gz 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <1> carlit(11565) [parser::susetags] ContentFileReader.cc(parse):293 Start parsing /var/cac he/zypp/raw/opensuse-10.3-CL-extras/content[g___] 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <0> carlit(11565) [Progress] ProgressData.cc(report):80 {#25|/var/cache/zypp/raw/opensuse-1 0.3-CL-extras/content}(0%) 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <0> carlit(11565) [Progress] ProgressData.cc(report):80 {#25|/var/cache/zypp/raw/opensuse-1 0.3-CL-extras/content}(23%) 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <0> carlit(11565) [Progress] ProgressData.cc(report):80 {#25|/var/cache/zypp/raw/opensuse-1 0.3-CL-extras/content}(44%) 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <0> carlit(11565) [Progress] ProgressData.cc(report):80 {#25|/var/cache/zypp/raw/opensuse-1 0.3-CL-extras/content}(67%) 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <0> carlit(11565) [Progress] ProgressData.cc(report):80 {#25|/var/cache/zypp/raw/opensuse-1 0.3-CL-extras/content}(88%) 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <0> carlit(11565) [Progress] ProgressData.cc(report):80 {#25|/var/cache/zypp/raw/opensuse-1 0.3-CL-extras/content}(100%) 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <0> carlit(11565) [Progress] ProgressData.cc(report):80 {#25|/var/cache/zypp/raw/opensuse-1 0.3-CL-extras/content}(100%) 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <1> carlit(11565) [parser::susetags] RepoParser.cc(consumeProd):80 [Product] [ openSUSE-FTP_Updates 10.3 x86_64 ] 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <1> carlit(11565) [parser::susetags] ContentFileReader.cc(endParse):255 [Content] 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <1> carlit(11565) [parser::susetags] ContentFileReader.cc(parse):537 Done parsing /var/cache/zypp/raw/opensuse-10.3-CL-extras/content[_eF_] 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <0> carlit(11565) [Progress] ProgressData.cc(report):86 {#25|/var/cache/zypp/raw/opensuse-10.3-CL-extras/content}END 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <0> carlit(11565) [parser::susetags] RepoParser.cc(parse):424 ReferenceCounted(@0x7a03d0<=1) 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <1> carlit(11565) [parser::susetags] RepoParser.cc(parse):441 Total job size: 0 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <2> carlit(11565) [parser::susetags] RepoParser.cc(assertMandatoryFile):222 /var/cache/zypp/raw/opensuse-10.3-CL-extras: Skip gz required file (will look for non-gz): ./suse/setup/descr/packages.gz 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <5> carlit(11565) [zypp] Exception.cc(log):119 RepoParser.cc(assertMandatoryFile):232 THROW: RepoParser.cc(assertMandatoryFile):232: /var/cache/zypp/raw/opensuse-10.3-CL-extras: Required file is missing: ./suse/setup/descr/packages 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <1> carlit(11565) [zypp] CacheStore.cc(~Impl):155 name cache hits: 0 | cache size: 5 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <5> carlit(11565) [zypp] Exception.cc(log):119 zypper-sources.cc(build_cache):163 CAUGHT: RepoParser.cc(assertMandatoryFile):232: /var/cache/zypp/raw/opensuse-10.3-CL-extras: Required file is missing: ./suse/setup/descr/packages 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <3> carlit(11565) [zypper] zypper-sources.cc(build_cache):174 Error parsing metadata for 'opensuse-10.3-CL-extras': 2007-10-30 15:36:55 <3> carlit(11565) [zypper] zypper-sources.cc(refresh_repos):589 Skipping repository 'opensuse-10.3-CL-extras' because of the above error. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] AutoYaST auto-installation in a VMware guest machine
by John Bown 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

Hello everyone. My job requires that I frequently deploy fresh virtual (VMware) installations of SLES 10, both with and without SP1, to our developers. To that end, I recently setup a machine from which I'd like to test automating the process using a DVD as the source of the installation files, and a floppy disk as the location of the control file. However, there seems to be a problem. I boot the virtual machine to the DVD drive, the autoinst.xml file on the floppy is then located, and off it goes. The installation completes flawlessly; however, when the newly created virtual machine attempts to boot for the first time, I get the following, GRUB related error: >>>>>SNIP<<<<< root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.53-0.8-smp root=/dev/sda2 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/sda1 splash=silent Error 15: File not found Press any key to continue... >>>>>SNIP<<<<< Has anyone else out there come across this? Are there any special steps that need to be taken when performing an automated installation in a virtual environment? Many thanks. John Bown -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] System upgrade with autoyast
by Jonathan Meller 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

How can I perform an upgrade on an installed SLES 10 using Autoyast? Nothing about it on FAQ or documentation. -- Jonathan Meller jonathan.meller(a)tet.com.br ======================================================= Tools & Technologies - T&T Engenheiros Associados Ltda. Projetos de SW - Desenvolvendo soluções. Rua Riachuelo, 1098 Conj. 901 Centro - Porto Alegre - CEP 90010-272 Fone DDR: (51)3220-3244 Fone/Fax: (51)3220-3220 / 3220-3206 http://www.tet.com.br/ tet(a)tet.com.br =======================================================

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[opensuse-autoinstall] I don't want /dev/disk/by-id/ in my fstab :-(
by Frank Steiner 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Hi, I guess it was with SP1 when AY for SLES 10 suddenly started naming my partitions /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-... instead of /dev/sda in /etc/fstab. Although I'm using /dev/sda in the AY profiles and not /dev/disk/by-id. Now this is quite bad, because I have some post-installation scripts that assume that /etc/fstab is somewhat equivalent to my xml profile, i.e., if the profile names /dev/sda as main disk, /etc/fstab would do, too. I know that AY tries to be nice to me, but I take care myself about the order of disks and I do control what disk becomes /dev/sda and what sdb etc. :-) Is there a way to tell AY to name the entries in /etc/fstab the same way I did in the AY? 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. * -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] How do you ignore disks in autoyast?
by Mostyn Lewis 15 Oct '07

15 Oct '07

A Sun X4500 machine has 48 SATA disk inside. When installing via PXE and using autoyast, we want 47 of those disks to be ignored and only one, /dev/sdy, to be used for the install. How can you tell autoyast to complete ignore disks? When installing you get messages for each disk such as: The partitioning on disk /dev/sdap is not readable by the partitioning tool parted, which is used to change thepartition table. You can use the partitions on disk /dev/sdap as they are. You can format them and assign mount points to them, but you cannot add, edit, resize, or remove partitions from that disk with this tool. And it waits to time out for 10 seconds. The only autoyast xml is for/dev/sday: ... <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/sda</device> <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize> <use>all</use> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>/boot</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <size>1gb</size> </partition> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>/</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <size>20gb</size> </partition> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>swap</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">130</partition_id> <size>8188mb</size> </partition> </partitions> </drive> </partitioning> ... Later on it complains again. So, I'd like to ignore disks and not get any prompts. Any advice, anybody? Regards, Mostyn Lewis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help(a)opensuse.org

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