From my experience: Keep thinks simple in the beginning
1 ) So no software raid and what so ever. - Simple Partition schema - Do not name the disk for installation ( SATA will be detected as /dev/sd[a-z]X devices 2 ) use text mode for Installation ( Graphical Installations fails for me ) 3 ) Have a large defined swap partition because if you use http for installation autoyast will copy pretty much of the installation to its local ram disk ( memory ) You can use "top" on a different terminal 4) Take a look at the /var/log/Yast log files ( The ones on the ram disk ) 5) Switch to terminal 4 ( from memory ) to see what has been loaded and what has happend. hth Hajo
"Michael T. Halligan" <michael@halligan.org> 08/26/05 3:02 pm >>> So I've been struggling for a couple of days trying to get AutoYast to
work. I can install on these servers manually.. However, if I create a reference profile, or creaet my own profile, or really do anything with autoyast, every time I try to install, the server gets as far as loading the device driver disks, then stops with a big red box reading "An error occurred during installation" That's it. I built an installation source using SLES 9S SP2 x86_64. I am trying to boot with y2debug and setting a loghost, but the messages i'm getting aren't exactly helpful. The servers I'm installing on are del sc1425s with single 3ghz procs and dual sata drives. I'm attempting to setup sles9-sp2 with software raid1. Any help would be appreciated. The last few lines I'll see in syslog are: ug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui-ncurses] NCurses.cc(Refresh):407 start refresh ... Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ncurses] NCurses.cc(SetTitle):459 Draw title called Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui-ncurses] NCurses.cc(Refresh):411 done refresh ... Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3606]: <1> [wfm] Y2WFMComponent.cc(SetLanguage):403 SET encoding to: UTF-8 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "Accept" -> F10 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "Add" -> F3 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "Back" -> F8 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "Cancel" -> F9 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "Do Not Accept" -> F9 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "Don't install" -> F9 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "Finish" -> F10 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "Help" -> F1 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "Install" -> F10 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "Next" -> F10 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "No" -> F9 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "OK" -> F10 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "Quit" -> F9 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "Save" -> F10 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "Yes" -> F10 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "Close" -> F10 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "Continue" -> F10 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "Delete" -> F5 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3642]: <1> [ui] YUI_builtins.cc(evaluateSetFunctionKeys):1652 Mapping "Edit" -> F4 Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3606]: <1> [YCP] StorageDevices.ycp:243 before .probe.floppy Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3606]: <1> [YCP] StorageDevices.ycp:245 after .probe.floppy Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3606]: <1> [YCP] StorageDevices.ycp:267 FloppyDrives [] Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3606]: <1> [ui-ncurses] YNCursesUI.cc(YNCursesUI):114 Stop YNCursesUI Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3606]: <1> [ui-ncurses] NCurses.cc(NCurses):160 Shutdown NCurses... Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3606]: <1> [ui-ncurses] NCurses.cc(NCurses):169 NCurses down Aug 25 22:10:39 BOB yast2[3606]: <1> [liby2] genericfrontend.cc(main):437 Finished YaST2 component 'y2base' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help@suse.com