RE: [suse-autoinstall] Help with installing multiple machines over network

7 Feb 2006

      Hello,

Thanks again, I have now added "vga=0x317" to the "default" file in the TFTP
server's "pxelinux.cfg" directory, and it appears to be working :-)

When autoyast ignored the runlevel in the xml config profile, is that
definitely a known bug then? Once I have created the chroot script, do you
know how I can actually change the default runlevel using a script? I can do
it by editing a file, and through the GUI, but have never done it with a
command.

Also, the following seems to be ignored as well:

  <language>en_GB</language>

It seems to still want to install using "English (US)". Is this another
known bug? If so, is there a workaround? If not, is "en_GB" a correct value?
Am I using it in the correct place:

============================================================
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE profile SYSTEM "/usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/profile.dtd">
<profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns"
xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns">
    <general>
        <clock>
            <hwclock>UTC</hwclock>
            <timezone>Etc/GMT</timezone>
        </clock>
        <keyboard>
            <keymap>english-uk</keymap>
        </keyboard>
        <language>en_GB</language>
        <mode>
            <confirm config:type="boolean">true</confirm>
        </mode>
    </general>
......
============================================================

Thanks again, and I truly am sorry about all these probably simple
questions! You have been a great help so far :-)

Richard.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Uwe Gansert [mailto:ug@suse.de] 
Sent: 07 February 2006 13:14
To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com
Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Help with installing multiple 
machines over network
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 12:59, Richard Hobbs wrote:
...
Thanks for the chroot script suggestion, I shall research 
this as soon as
I have time.
http://www.suse.de/~ug/autoyast_doc/createprofile.scripts.html
#chroot.scripts
...
When I install over NFS, however, the splash screen does 
not appear, the
smaller font is not used, and when it's finished booting 
(into runlevel
3), there is no blue SuSE bar along the bottom of the screen.
Do you know how I can activate these features?
I think you have to provide the vga= parameter on the kernel 
command line. 
Like "vga=0x31a" to get the frambebuffer used instead of textmode.
If you want to have the bootsplash, besides the vga=... you 
need the package 
"bootsplash"-something.
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