December 2010 - 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] autoyast with multiple LVM Volume Groups
by big beer 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

Hello, I'm trying to have autoyast setup some LVM volume groups. I can get things setup with a single volume group, but if try to add 2 volume groups I seem to be running into some issue. I'm using the following xml inside the partitioning section to setup the PVs and add to the volume groups. . . . <drive> <device>/dev/sdb</device> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <lvm_group>firstvg</lvm_group> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>max</size> </partition> </partitions> <use>all</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/sdc</device> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <lvm_group>secondvg</lvm_group> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>max</size> </partition> </partitions> <use>all</use> </drive> . . . The problem is that both disks are configured as PVs in the same VG. Both sdb and sdc will be added to firstvg and secondvg will not exist. Am I trying this wrong or am I hitting some sort of bug? thanks -- bigbeer -- 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] Repository Priority
by Tim Kirby 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

Repository Priority is obviously a useful thing to be able to manipulate. Yast lets me set it and zypper lets me set it. Yet, if I have multiple repositories defined at the beginning of my autoyast (including update repos so I get an up to date system built out of the box), I don't seem to have any control over the respective repository priorities - they're all defaulted. Or did I miss a subtle option somewhere? Tim -- Tim Kirby 651-605-9074 trk(a)cray.com Cray Inc. Information Systems -- 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] Partition/sector boundary alignment
by Paul 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

Hi, Can anyone suggest how to ensure AutoYAST creates partitions that are aligned to 4K boundaries? As far as I can tell, AY doesn't allow for specifying start sectors -- only by size. I understand that without such alignment the disk I/O subsystem will be worked harder than it needs to be in order to satisfy requests. My build will be SLES11sp1 on both physical and VMware. Thanks, -Paul -- 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] 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] opensuse chroot install from another os that have zypper installed
by Vasiliy G Tolstov 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Hello. I'm try to build opensuse chroot environment undex another linux (Exherbo). I'm build zypper and all needed stuff to my system and try to install patter base. But when install process begin install filesystem it aborted, becouse i do not have all dependencies installed. How can i install opensuse in chroot not using suse OS ? Thank You. -- Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov(a)selfip.ru> Selfip.Ru -- 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 start autoyast install from UEFI?
by Stepan, Troy 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

This is for SLES11 or SLES11 SP1. I searched the archives and cannot seem to find any documentation on creating media that will automatically kick off an autoyast install on an EFI/UEFI platform. For standard x86_64 (non EFI), I can edit boot/x86_64/loader/isolinux.cfg to look like this which will read autoinst.xml from the root of the CD and do the install. This works. # autoyast install label Install kernel linux append initrd=initrd ramdisk_size=131027 autoyast=default instmode=cd netsetup=0 textmode=1 For EFI -- which does not use the standard ISOLINUX -- I tried editing the elilo.conf found inside of boot/x86_64/efi to look like this and then writing it back out to the CD as a secondary boot record. It will boot from the CD and load text based Yast but never gets any further. It complains about not being able to find CD1. image=linux label=linux description = "Install" initrd=initrd append="instmode=cd autoyast=default" Any ideas? I suspect my elilo.conf append line is wrong (at the very least!). Cheers. -- 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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Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] Partition/sector boundary alignment
by Lantz Stephenson 04 Dec '10

04 Dec '10

Takes a post script I believe Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message----- From: Paul <paulnovl(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 17:25:43 To: <opensuse-autoinstall(a)opensuse.org> Subject: [opensuse-autoinstall] Partition/sector boundary alignment Hi, Can anyone suggest how to ensure AutoYAST creates partitions that are aligned to 4K boundaries? As far as I can tell, AY doesn't allow for specifying start sectors -- only by size. I understand that without such alignment the disk I/O subsystem will be worked harder than it needs to be in order to satisfy requests. My build will be SLES11sp1 on both physical and VMware. Thanks, -Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help(a)opensuse.org -- 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] SLES11SP1 configure kdump settings doesnt work
by R.E. van Holk 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Hi, we are configuring systems using ayast_setup with a predefined profile. up to SLES 11.0 all was fine. Now we are running SLES11SP1 and we now are unable to configure the dump device using the <kdump> directive. It really doesn't seem to matter what parameters we put in to this directive , it just looks like the kdump directive is ignored by ayast_setup. The file /etc/sysconfig/kdump which should be adjusted with the parameters used in the the directive remains unchanged. The y2log doesn't show any references to kdump at all. Is there anyone on this mailinglist who also have seen this behaviour and is there a solution known maybee ? Íf any more information is needed to solve this issue I'm happy to provide these. Thanks in advance for any help on this issue. Ron van Holk ING -- 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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