September 2009 - 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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[opensuse-autoinstall] OT: Centralized patch management for OpenSuse 11.x
by Ivan De Masi 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Hello, someone may start to laugh now for my (OT) question, but I can't find a satisfying solution :-/ How do you manage patches, updates, etc. for your running opensuse clients (not enterprise linux, just the "regular" opensuse distribution)? Is there a way like known from M$-World (WSUS)? As I know "Zend Management Server" is not open source (and not supported any more?!). Or can the complete management only be handled with self written scripts? Thanks! Regards, Ivan -- 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] Adding packages to profile triggers error message
by Isaac Hailperin 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Hi, I try to install sles 11 via autoyast. I did an installation from dvd, and pulled an autoyast profile. This profile works, and can be installed via pxe. Now I want to add the following packages: findutils-locate, dhcp-server, bind, apache2, vsftpd, nfs-kernel-server I do this via the gui. I have also tried to do it with an editor, as the gui messed up profiles in sles10sp2. In both cases, after the first reboot, I get the errormessage: "The package resolver run failed. Please check your software section in the aut" [oyast profile] (last part invisible, I guess it should be the software section in my autoyast profile :-)) This a real problem, as I have to confirm this message, thus it stops the autoinstall process. After confirming, the autoinstall process continues. Right bevor I can log in, I get "Could not update ICEauthority file /var/lib/gdm/.ICEauthority" I confirm, and get: "There is a problem with the configuration server. (/usr/lib/GConf/2/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)" I confirm, and can log in. Theses messages are presistend after reboot. Its annoying, but not a stopper like the first problem. Why is this? Can I avoid this? Isaac -- 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 rules in openSUSE 11.2 (milestone7)
by Werner Hack 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hello, I tried to install openSUSE 11.2 (milestone7) via autoyast for testing purpose. I am using the rules feature to create a profile dynamically. I have no problems within former openSUSE releases. But in openSUSE 11.2 it fails. 'xsltproc' is missing here (for merging the profiles) ! Is this problem already known? autoyast is not working yet. Is there a bugfix available or even a workaround to solve this problem? This will be great. At the moment I can not test autoinstallation in release 11.2. Regards, Werner Hack --

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[opensuse-autoinstall] Feature request _ask_ for rules/class merging
by Martin Vogt 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hello, I would like to have the following feature: on the server I have some templates("rules") for different partitioning,software etc. But I like the user who installs the system to select these rules (instead of the automatic matching) During Autoyast, before the installation starts, a window should appear which shows all rules by Name and the user then clicks the rulenames which he wants to be applied to the autoyast.xml file. I know that there are "rules/classes" already and its possible to add <ask> dialogs during autoinstall. But I think its not possible to merge rules with an ask statement. regards, Martin -- 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] Location for image installation with autoyast
by Leonardo L. P. da Mata 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

This is another test that i'm doing, i'd like to use this feature: <software> <image> <script_location>http://10.10.0.162/image.sh</script_location> <run_kickoff config:type="boolean">true</run_kickoff> </image> </software> http://ugansert.blogspot.com/2009/03/imagine-autoyast.html But i'd like to store both the script and the image that will be used in the installation on the media DVD, the script_location tag may have device://<cdrom_device>/image.sh parameter?? How do i identify what's my dvdrom drive inside these scripts? Thanks -- Leonardo Luiz Padovani da Mata barroca(a)gmail.com "May the force be with you, always" "Nerd Pride... eu tenho. Voce tem?" -- 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] "SHA1 sum wrong" after modifying control.xom
by Andreas Taschner 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Hi I have created a YaST client module that snaps into the AutoYaST workflow for running displaying the progress of custom scripts (http://www.novell.com/communities/node/8961/) and a part of this game is to modify <instsrc>/control.xml. While this works fine for SLES 10, SLES 11 is more careful. First it gave me an error like this : <instsrc>/control.xml : SHA1 sum wrong. If you really trust your repository, you may continue in an insecure mode. (OK/Back) Hmm ... OK fair enough - naively I entered a new SHA1 sum in <instsrc>/content hoping that would be it. :( Now I get a less friendly popup saying : <instsrc>/content: Invalid signature Aborting installation I see there is a content.key file, but since I don't know the password to it, it guess it is useless to try to generate a new content.asc. Is there any way around this, or do we not want customer's to port their customizations to SLE 11 ? Thanks. Best regards Andreas Taschner -- 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] Classes do not work in 11.1 autoyast installation
by mwani＠fkf.mpg.de 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Hi, I want to use classes in my autoyast installation. With the 'autoyast' parameter I'm loading the xml-file: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE profile> <profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns"> <classes config:type="list"> <class> <class_name>default</class_name> <configuration>software.xml</configuration> </class> <class> <class_name>laptop</class_name> <configuration>partitions.xml</configuration> </class> </classes> </profile> I'm booting the client via PXE boot. I can see in the log file of the http server, that the client fetches the xml file. But in contrast the client does not even try to load the class files. I can not see an obvious error in the y2log file. With 10.3 that procedure worked that way. With 11.1 it has broken for me. Any hints are appreciated. thanks, Michael Wanitschek -- 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] Wrong disk-id with hw raid
by Tomas Rosenthal 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Hi I'm having a problem with hardware raid and autoyast. First some background, I have the following setup: * HP ProLiant DL380 * SLES11 autoinstaller - all in one DVD * HP HW raid controller to set up hardware raid 5 on the system. * The software to set up hardware raid is put into the initrd of the SLES DVD A precondition is to be able to install without network and to bundle everything in one install DVD. The autoyast installer launches a pre-install script that sets up the hardware Raid. Now the actual problem: The data in /dev/disk/by-id is read and memorized by yast before raid is set up. After the raid setup script has completed all values have changed in /dev/disk/by-id. This causes the installer to crash when it later tries to set up Grub. Yast inserts the incorrect values it remembers into /boot/grub/device.map. The installer crashes with this error in y2log_bootloader: grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --force-lba (hd0) (hd0,0) Error 21: Selected disk does not exist grub> quit Is it possible to make the yast bootloader re-read the values from /dev/disk/by-id before setting up grub? I tried to simply override the values in the files it touches in a chroot script, but yast simply removes my changes and creates a new incorrect file in its place. I have also tried to add the raid script to /etc/init.d/ inside initrd of the SLES installer, but I can't link it like I would on debian. Googling this I found that I need to run 'insserv' but I can't chroot into the initrd in any way to do this. I'm not even sure running it in a runlevel really early would be enough, but this is an option I have not been able to test fully, so some pointers or a link on where I can find info on setting up init-scripts in suse without insserv would be greatly appreciated. Warm regards, Tomas Ps. Thanks Uwe for solving the issue '[opensuse-autoinstall] Rule based auto-installation without network' for me Ds. -- 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] Power Outage
by ml-admin＠opensuse.org 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Broadcast message from ml-admin(a)opensuse.org (/dev/pts/0) at 07:30 GMT ... The system is going down for halt NOW! -- 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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