Hello, Ah... It's the partitioning!! The Dell Servers ship with a 38MB utility partition and a 1.9GB FAT16 partition, and for some reason, AutoYast isn't wiping these partitions first. I thought the "<use>all</use>" section was the bit that said use the entire disk? Thanks, Hobbs. -- Richard Hobbs (Systems Administrator) Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. - Speech Technology Group Web: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/research/ Normal Email: richard.hobbs@crl.toshiba.co.uk Mobile Email: mobile@mongeese.co.uk Tel: +44 1223 376964 Mobile: +44 7811 803377
-----Original Message----- From: Uwe Gansert [mailto:ug@suse.de] Sent: 14 February 2006 10:55 To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Simultaneous SuSE 10.0 Autoyast installs fail!
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 11:46, Richard Hobbs wrote:
We have a total of 9 machines. On 7 of these machines, SuSE 10.0 fails to install using AutoYast. They all fail in the same way.
In the middle of installing the package, and with 428 packages remaining, it tries to install "emacs-21.3". It gets 56% of the way through this package, and then the machine hangs. On the other two servers, it installs perfectly. All servers are exactly the same hardware, apart from one. Here is the list:
2 Questions:
if you check the proposal dialog at the beginnig of the installation (that's where you can see the partitioning and so on), is autoyast doing the correct partitioning there on the machines that fail? I'm asking that because it sounds a little bit like autoyast has not created a root partition on those machines and so the ramdisk is used as root (you might run out of memory then).
Can you do manual installations on the machines that fail with autoyast?
-- 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
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