On Thursday 02 February 2006 18:41, Richard Hobbs wrote:
I have also added an <initialize> tag within each <drive> tag, just below the <device> tag in order to remove the partition table on each disk before starting, so I hope I have done this correctly as well:
============================================================ <drive> <device>/dev/sda</device> <initialize config:"boolean">true</initialize>
this is correct.
Finally, just after it's probed the mouse and done a few other things, I get a dialog box appearing which says:
System Profile Location: /existing/location/of/file.xml
I then have the option ot typing in a different XML file, but why is it prompting me for a different file?
that can happen in two cases. Either the profile can't be found where you have pointed to with the autoyast=... option, or the profile has a XML syntax error. Since you created the profile with the autoyast UI, a syntax error is not very likely as long as you did not change anything with a texteditor. So make sure that the profile really is where autoyast=... points to and that the machine can read it. On SUSE Linux 10.1 the error message in that case is a lot better but of course that does not help you at the moment :)
I have a feeling there's a MAC address in the xml file somewhere, so do I just need to replace the MAC address of the original machine with the MAC address of the new machine I'm trying to build?
maybe it's a good idea to replace the MAC but I'm sure that's not the problem here.
Also, I have read somewhere that I can use a configuration server to store xml files for each machine I have, and given the quantity of machines, this would be the ideal approach for me because each one obviously needs a different IP address and hostname, so I can't use the same XML file for all the machines.
why don't you use DHCP in your network? If you do "autoyast=nfs://..../" without providing the profile name, then autoyast tries to fetch a profile with the name of the MAC address of the machine like "0007E9F2FCEB". -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany e-mail: uwe.gansert@suse.de, Tel: +49-(0)911-74053-0, Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de