July 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] 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] 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] AutoYaST goes Twitter
by Uwe Gansert 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi, well, it's not that it can read XML files from a twitter feed now ;) but after the blog(*), starting from today, AutoYaST goes one further step to web 2.0 and has it's own twitter account (**). It's not for great hints or enhanced support or so. It's just a little look behind the curtain of my life with AutoYaST ... for those who care ;) And it seems you can't do any bigger project these days without something like a blog, twitter or facebook or ... so ... here it is. (*) http://ugansert.blogspot.com (**) http://twitter.com/autoyast ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Business: http://www.suse.de/~ug -- 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] tool for cleaning up repositories
by Magyari, Miklos 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

hi all, I apologize, this is not a real autoyast questions but you may have some pointers for me. We are using autoyast to install different SLED releases. My problem is that for higher SP releases the "updates" repo from Novell grows quite big, most of the packages have several different versions in the repo. For SP3, there are more than 10.000 rpms in updates. What I'm looking for is a script that can help me to find/remove obsolete rpms. Do you know any? thanks, Miki -- 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] "Invalid partition table" on SLES10SP2/3 with soft RAID
by Andreas Taschner 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Thank you for responding. >>> On 6/17/2010 at 16:39, Uwe Gansert <ug(a)suse.de> wrote: > on Thursday 17 June 2010 Andreas Taschner wrote: > >> I am trying to duplicate a problem at a customer that has a RAID1 setup >> with /boot, / and other partitions on md. For this I install SLES10SP2 as >> step one and upgrade to SLES10SP3 as step2. Doing this manually works >> fine, but when installing SP2 or upgrading to SP3 using AutoYaST, the > > how do you upgrade with autoyast? you leave the partitioning as it is but > format all system-relevant parts? If we stick to the installation of SP2 for now, then I format md* and initialize both physical drives (added the initialize manually). Changing persistent_superblock from false to true has not changed the situation. What I find really strange about the upgrade profile (generated as the last step during the upgrade) also formats all partitions ??? So that one would probably never work anyway... I have attached an archive of the partition tag of both SP2 installation and SP2-->SP3 profiles. > >> /boot/grub/menu.lst refers to /dev/md? and I have tried configuring >> device.map to map to both /dev/sd? and /dev/disk/by-id/*. Another funny >> observation : Switching the bootable flag from sdb1 to sda1 changes the >> boot error from "Invalid partition able" to "No operating system" >> >> So it looks like the RAID setup somehow does not make it to disk when using >> AutoYaST. >> >> Any ideas ? > > the only idea and bug that comes close to it is > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=581523 > it's about LVM but RAID was affected too. > SP3 accidently pulls in multipath drivers into the ramdisk and those make > trouble during the reboot. > But actually your sympthons are a bit different, so I have doubts that you > hit > that problem. Thank you for any inspiration. //Andreas

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[opensuse-autoinstall] add_on_products media_url DVD
by Vladimir Ondrus 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hi, I am trying to install custom packages using add_on_products. I am creating my own install dvd: - as a base SLES10 SP3 is used, - i copy the dvd to some directory DVD_REP, - then i create then updates directory stucture there with create_update_source.sh(http://www.suse.com/~ug/) - then i create new DVD with mkisofs -R DVD_REP(so updates directory is the same medium as SLES) - then I want to instruct autoyast.xml to take this into consideration, this should be present in add_on_products file on my DVD media_url [path_on_media [product_1 [product_2 [....]]] My question is: How should media_url look like, when my update source is on the same DVD as SLES10 SP3? Next question is where can I specify that my my_test.rpm should be installed, can I do it in software section <software> <packages config:type="list"> <package>my_test</package> </packages> </software> and installation process will search updates directory for this rpm? Regards, Vladimir Ondrus -- 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] Splitting a SUSE install
by Erico Mendonça 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

I have an autoyast-based installation that needs to be split into CDs, and possibly remove unneeded packages. Is there a tool for that? -- -- Erico -- 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] Add-on products
by Erico Mendonça 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

Hi there... I'm currently trying to include an additional repository on a custom installation ISO with autoyast. Basically I'm copying the directory to the root of the media, and would like to include it as a valid package repo (it's already an YUM repo). I placed this in the autoyast XML: <add-on> <add_on_products config:type="list"> <listentry> <media_url>dir:///myrepo</media_url> <product>Custom-REPO</product> <product_dir>/</product_dir> <name>Custom packages</name> </listentry> </add_on_products> </add-on> and placed my repository on the /myrepo directory on the media. However, it won't find/recognize this as a valid repo. I get a "Failed to add add-on product" error. I already tried other URL schemes as well, like file://. What am I missing here? -- -- Erico -- 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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