On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:31:01 +0200 Uwe Gansert <ug@suse.de> wrote:
I had to change the partitioning to <use>all</use> because it did not fit my needs but I did not change anything else and it works fine here with a 9.3 installation server.
Thanks. I know what the problem is now. I have been trying to do an install into machines with pre-existing partitions, only using some of them for SuSE (the rest are used for something to do with hats.) My autoyast partitoning does not work for this (it seems from this list that no-one knows how to make this work for 9.3 but correct me if I'm wrong!) and creates two tiny new partitions out of a miniscule bit of space left on the disk. So then the software selection stage fails and the software selection gets into this state so that even when I go into the partitioning tool at confirm-install time and fix the partitioning then I still cannot install the software. So the bug can be reproduced by making the partitions too small for the selected software and choosing 'confirm before install', then when the software selection fails, set the partitions to be big enough and you should find that the software selection then does not work properly. So I am back to the problem I was trying to work around: given an existing set of partitions with some created but un-used, how do I tell autoyast to format and use existing partitions whilst leaving the others intact - and perhaps mounting a few at boot time?