August 2011 - 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] SLES11SP2 - repomd.xml.asc is required?
by Douglas_Parrish＠Dell.com 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

For my team, I manage several Linux auto-installations for RedHat & SLES. I have fairly stock autoyast.xml's that have been working quite well for a while. With SLES11SP2, I'm running into a new problem. As our add-on repository is for internal access only, we've never seen any value in signing our packages. I use the signature-handling flags to bypass the signing checks: <signature-handling> <accept_unsigned_file config:type="boolean">true</accept_unsigned_file> <accept_file_without_checksum config:type="boolean">true</accept_file_without_checksum> <accept_verification_failed config:type="boolean">true</accept_verification_failed> <accept_unknown_gpg_key config:type="boolean">true</accept_unknown_gpg_key> <accept_non_trusted_gpg_key config:type="boolean">true</accept_non_trusted_gpg_key> <import_gpg_key config:type="boolean">true</import_gpg_key> </signature-handling> </general> With SLES11SP2 (beta3) autoyast attempts to retrieve the repomd.xml.asc and repomd.xml.key files anyway. This throws up a blocking error dialog. Am I doing something wrong or has this behavior changed? -- Douglas Parrish Programmer Dell | PG Customer Operations -- 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] Running several post-install scripts
by Robert Klein 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

Hi, I'm trying to run two post-install scripts from file, however it seems, autoyast can't do this. If I include one script in <script> <source>...</source> </script> and one in <script> <location>ftp://.....</location> </script> both scripts run. However, when I try to use two scripts with <location>,,,,</location> only the first one gets done, regardless of an additional script with <source>,,,</source> or not. Is it simply not possible to do so? I tried openSuSE 11.2 and SLES11 SP1 I used the following in the autoyast.xml file: a) <script> <location>ftp://xyzzy/autoyast/mail-settings-112.sh</location> </script> <script> <location>ftp://xyzzy/autoyast/backup-deployment.sh</location> </script> and b) <script> <location>ftp://xyzzy/autoyast/mail-settings-112.sh</location> <filename>mail-settings-112.sh</filename> </script> <script> <location>ftp://xyzzy/autoyast/backup-deployment.sh</location> <filename>backup-deployment.sh</filename> </script> at b) I get log files for both, not only one postinstall-scripts.log, with the second lob, "mail-settings-112.sh.log" being empty. Any help is appreciated. Thank you very much Robert Klein -- 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] Setting environment variable for installation
by Jochen Schaefer 25 Aug '11

25 Aug '11

Hi, I need to set an environment variable which should be present within the installation environment. Is there any cmd line option which can fulfill that? Thanks, Jochen -- 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] Identification of NICs by MAC address
by Sebastian Wenner 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

Hi, is there a way of identifying NICs by MAC address rather than by interface name? We have several multi-nic machines where we run into trouble with "normal" interface names. They have e.g. 4 onboard nics, powered by the bnx2 driver and an additional quad-port card powered by the e1000 driver. If the e1000 gets loaded before the bnx2, the first onboard (which is our usual link into the install network) comes up as eth4 instead of eth0. Identifying the adapter by its mac address would do a great job to avoid this confusion... Is there a way of specifying this in the autoyast file and at the boot prompt? Best regards Sebastian -- 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] Using autoyast non interactively in a call like: yast autoyast file filename config.xml
by Rainer Krienke 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

Hello, I have a bunch of openSuSE desktops that are running in a network environment with central user management. User authentication for login is done up to now via a central NIS password database. Now I would like to change this and instead athenticate users against a central ldap server. This works when I configure it manually using yast on a already installed system but my problem is how can I automatically reconfigure existing desktops to use ldap instead of NIS. My idea was to use autoyast. So I configured one system, cloned it to get an autoyast config.xml file. Then on another system I wanted to reconfigure I started yast in the following manner: yast autoyast file filename config.xml This basically worked fine, but the problem is, that this was not completely noninteractively, I manually had to select the yast menu to apply the new autoyast configuration to the system. Is there a way to do this without user interaction? Does anyone have another idea how to automatically reconfigure a system from NIS to ldap athentication? Thanks you very much Rainer -- Rainer Krienke, Uni Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, A22, Universitaetsstrasse 1 56070 Koblenz, http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke, Tel: +49261287 1312 PGP: http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html,Fax: +49261287 1001312

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[opensuse-autoinstall] ext4 for SLES 11 SP1
by Frank Steiner 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

Hi, ext4 is not part of the SLES 11 SP1 kernel, one needs the ext4dev-kmp-default rpm to add support for ext4 file systems. Thus I wonder if there is any way to format file systems (not the root partition) with ext4 during the hard disk setup of autoyast. I haven't found a documentation about this. Can I load the ext4 module into the AY installer somehow? Maybe with a driverupdate or sth.? 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] Copying installation DVD to installed system
by Andreas Taschner 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

Hi In an isolated server scenario (defense solution), servers are installed from DVD with AutoYaST profile and info file on a USB stick and an additional DVD with a patch-set as an add-on product. On a regular basis, a DVD containing a new patch-set is distributed. This all works fine until we (Novell) release a patch that will install packages from the installation repository, which obviously does not exist on these servers. To prevent that problem from ever occurring, I am trying to find a way to copy the whole content of the SLES DVD to a directory on the target system in e.g. a chroot script and then add it as a repository with zypper. I have tried to find the path to the installation medium with "find -t d" in various scripts, also chroot with chrooted=false, but no luck. Does anybody know how to access those files ? Thank you Best regards Andreas -- 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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