December 2007 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-autoinstall] SLES10 SP2?
by Frank Steiner 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

Uwe, you seem to be ahead :-) Referring to your document "Changes between SLES10 SP1 and SP2" can you already tell us a release date for SP2? Would be great to know for several reasons! 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] Installing packages from repository in postinstall
by Dag Wieers 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

Hi, Marcus Meissner forwarded me to this mailinglist regarding a problem I have with installing packages in the postinstall on SLES10. We created a few extra repositories (using mrepo) and add these with a rug-command during the postinstall. The next thing we would like to do is install some of the packages from these repositories in the postinstall. Sadly, running 'yast -i' does not work, because of an error message that yast is already runing or the package database is being lock by another yast: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-sles-e/2007-Dec/0032.html What I am doing is explained more in the original message of this thread. So what is the best way to install packages in the postinstall from a repository without adding the packages directly to the installation media. PS We are now using 'rpm -U --quiet' on exact URLs, but that is problematic if we update one of these packages as we have to manually edit the postinstall phase. I much more prefer that we rebuild the repository metadata and let 'yast' do the installation of the latest version in the postinstall. Thanks for your help ! -- -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- 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] Problem with fetch profile via nfs in 10.3
by Vincent David 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

Hi, I'm posting this as a follow-up to older posts I found on the mailing- list archives regarding problems with nfs during the autoinstall procedure (and possibly related topics) with 10.3. The posts I'm referring to are: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2007-10/msg00031.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2007-10/msg00007.html and possibly: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2007-10/msg00010.html I found a solution to start the nfs-mount manually and described this in: http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=63305 However, this is merely a workaround and identifies the source of the problem, while I still don't know how to automize this in a fashion, such that the autoinstallation procedure runs clean without stopping and returning errors in between. Furthermore I do understand, from what a learned from the first mentioned reference, that Uwe Gansert already has a solution to this problem. I would be very interested in learning more about this, since I unfortunately couldn't find any description of such a solution. many thanks Vincent David -- 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] Rules and HasPCMCIA
by Rasmus Borup Hansen 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

With 10.1 and earlier I used the "haspcmcia" attribute to distinguish between laptops and desktops in my rules.xml file. With 10.3, however, it appears that haspcmcia always has the value 0. I don't know about 10.2, since I skipped that version. Has anyone else run into this problem? I changed my rules to use the following instead, so it's not a big deal for me: <rule> <custom1> <script> if lspci | grep -qi wireless ; then echo -n laptop else echo -n desktop fi </script> <match>*</match> <match_type>exact</match_type> </custom1> <result> <profile>default_@custom1@.xml</profile> <continue config:type="boolean">true</continue> </result> </rule> Best regards, Rasmus -- Rasmus Borup Hansen, IT manager University of Copenhagen Email: rbh(a)math.ku.dk Department of Mathematical Sciences Phone: +45 353 20759 Universitetsparken 5 Cell phone: +45 287 50759 DK-2100 Ø Office: 04.2.08 Denmark -- 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] PXE, Multicast, AutoYaST install...
by Cameron Seader 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Greetings, Anyone know of a way or 3rd party software that can do multicast of an AutoYaST install? thanks, Cameron -- 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 to keep a single partition ?
by Henrik Schmidt 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Hi, I want autoinstall with opensuse 10.3. HD is already partioned with SuSE 10.1, it has 4 primary partitions with reiserfs. 1. swap 1Gb 2. / 15Gb reiserfs 3. /export/opt 15Gb reiserfs 4. /export/home 43.5Gb (max) reiserfs I want to resize and reformat 1-3 with ext3 and keep data on 4. 1. swap 2Gb 2. / 20Gb ext3 3. /export/opt 9Gb ext3 4. /export/home 43.5Gb reiserfs <--- keep data ! I tried various configuration but I always get an error message: "Error while configuring partitions, Try again". I only get something workable if I create and format partition 4. too. I tried with and without the <keep_partition_num> and <usepart> lines. I tried with <use>all</use> too. I checked y2log but could not detect the problem. Can someone please help ? Here is one of the setups which don't work : <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/sda</device> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">true</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>swap</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">id</mountby> <partition_id config:type="integer">130</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>2gb</size> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">true</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>/</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">id</mountby> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>20gb</size> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">true</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>/export/opt</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">id</mountby> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>10gb</size> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <mount>/export/home</mount> <partition_nr config:type="integer">4</partition_nr> <usepart config:type="integer">4</usepart> </partition> </partitions> <use>1,2,3</use> <keep_partition_num>4</keep_partition_num> </drive> </partitioning> -- Henrik Schmidt Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel Institut fuer Informatik +49 (431) 880 75 - 50 Fax or 43 Phone Olshausenstr. 40 http://www.ks.informatik.uni-kiel.de 24098 Kiel, Germany email: hbs(a)ks.informatik.uni-kiel.de -- 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] http reference profile on sles10 sp1
by Rich 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

i'm attempting to generate reference autoyast profile on a fully patched sles 10 sp1. unfortunately, component chooser does not offer me a choice of http server. also selecting all entries does not generate http server config. can anybody reproduce this or is there something gone wrong with updates on my system ? -- 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] How to use <ask> statements in autoyast?
by Hougaard 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hi I've been looking over the documentation for <ask> at http://newsportal.novell.com/article.php?id=1565&group=novell.support.sles.… - but it leave's me with several questions (sorry for my ignorance, I'm new to all this autoyast stuff ;) ) - if I use the "<file>/tmp/answer_hostname</file>", what is the format of the answer file?? just an empty text file with the answer or? - what about the value to be exchanged? should it be empty, or will any predefined value be exchanged with the one asked for? - Will it be possible to answer serveral "paths" with the same question?? eg. below <ask> <path>arkmanager,dbpassword</path> <path>ca_mgm,password</path> <question>Type Password</question> <stage>initial</stage> <default>Type in your password here</default> </ask> or is there, a more clever solution to such a question? - How about the password... is it possible to get this read from an clear text string? (I'm installing OES2, and there are several passwords and some are written in clear text, and some ain't) regards Flemming (Terribly sorry if my post occurs twice, haven't noticed the no HTML part at first) -- 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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