Fine - the semantics that work really seem to change with each version, but the docu doesn't. Hmmm - OK - SuSE is now a Novell company, i think we'll have to get used to that ... BTW, thanks for the hint to the now working syntax, this will save me fortunately the same trial and error work ;-) "Who needs adventure games when there are operating systems" *ggg* Ing. Wolfgang Skabrond -- TWS Datensysteme Ges.m.b.H. Cobenzlgasse 32/3 A-1190 Wien Tel.: +43/1/32 9 32-0 Fax: +43/1/32 9 32-30 WWW: http://www.tws.at E-Mail: skabrond@tws.at --- Thorbjorn Jemander wrote on 04.05.2005, 13:33 ---
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Hi,
this behaviour is something that has obviousely changed since SuSE 9.2, the autoinst.xml-file is no more autodetected on the floppy. The documentations says, it should work with
autoyast=floppy:///autoinst.xml or autoyast=floppy
as you have tried, but this also doesn't work - it has the same effects you described. BTW, please note, that 3 slashes would be required for the floppy:// - syntax, 2 for the URL-like scheme, as in http:// and one for the root-directory of the floppy (which can of course be dos-formatted), but i prefer a minix-formatted floppy.
Right.
It took me lots of time to find a syntax that works, the only one i found is:
autoyast=/dev/fd0/autoinst.xml
This does not seem to work under 9.3. I experimented around alot, (trying MSDOS, Minix and ext2 filesystems, both by the using /dev/fd0/autoinst.xml directly and mounting the floppy in a directory (In the shell at shift-alt-F5)) but finally, this worked:
device://fd0/autoinst.xml
(I used the floppy with the ext2 fs, but it probably works with any)
but i don't know if this works with 9.3 as i only had 9.2 autoinstalls up to now. Give it a try.
As the bottom line, i can only say that the documentation or the autoyast-process has to be corrected by SuSE (make the software work as the docu says or make the docu so that it matches the features of the software)... ;-)
Yes, that would have saved me a lot of work. :-)
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