August 2010 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-autoinstall] How to set filesystem type
by Henrik Schmidt 05 Aug '10

05 Aug '10

I'm using <partitioning_advanced> and <fstab> with my autoinstall for 11.3, Is it possible to force the filesystem for partitions declared to be formated ? I want them to be ext4 instead of ext3. <partitioning_advanced> <fstab>  <root_partition>/dev/sda2</root_partition> <use_existing_fstab config:type="boolean">true</use_existing_fstab>  <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>swap</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">id</mountby> </partition> <partition> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>/</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">id</mountby> </partition> <partition> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <mount>/export/opt</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">id</mountby> </partition> <partition> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <mount>/export/home</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">id</mountby> </partition> </partitions> </fstab> </partitioning_advanced> -- 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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