Now I'm stuck trying to tell linuxrc to use the new "root" image... I copied it to the installation partition and used the parameter "rootimage=/boot/root", but it seems that this path is relative to the installation path (parameter install=ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/...). At least I get an error message "ftp error: File not found on server"). I doubt I can talk the official SuSe mirrors into letting me upload my new root image ;) Is there another way? My linuxrc parameters are: language=en_US keytable=de-lat1-nd install=ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/i386/9.1 netdevice=eth0 sshpassword=... dhcp=1 usedhcp=1 usessh=1 rootimage=/boot/root The root image is in /boot/root on the installation partition. I also tried rootimage=/boot/boot/root, in case it is mounted at /boot, but this did not work either. Regards, Jochen Anas Nashif <nashif@suse.de> 14.09.2004 14:21 To werbung@kuhnle.net cc suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject Re: [suse-autoinstall] SuSE 9.1 SSH Network Install fails werbung@kuhnle.net wrote:
Hi,
where do I get the "root"-file from?
First CD in the directory "boot". Anas
Regards, Jochen
Anas Nashif <nashif@suse.de> 14.09.2004 01:24
To Rajiv Aaron Manglani <rajiv@angstrom.com> cc suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject Re: [suse-autoinstall] SuSE 9.1 SSH Network Install fails
Hi, Well, it seems the code is indeed in the script, although according to the logs it should not be there :-( Quick and dirty solution is to remove this code from the yast2 script.
mv root root.orig mount -oloop linux/root.orig /mnt rm -rf inst-sys mkdir -p inst-sys cd inst-sys rsync -avz /mnt/* .
vi inst-sys/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/YaST2 # remove the lines 383-402 umount /mnt
mkfs.cramfs inst-sys root
rm -rf inst-sys
Hope that helps, Anas
Rajiv Aaron Manglani wrote:
I am trying to do a network install with SuSE 9.1 on a headless (and keyboardless) machine. After inital booting and ssh login, yast
displays
i am seeing something similar here. we have a dhcp/tftp/http server setup to do installs. if we boot a machine via pxe with no keyboard connected, autoyast appears to hang with:
No keyboard detected. Trying to connect via serial interface /dev/ttyS0. On your terminal computer start ...
the blue install screen never comes up. however the autoyast install progresses (in the background?) and eventually completes sucessfully.
when i setup the server i copied linux and initrd from x86_64/9.1/boot/loader/ which was rsynced from mirror.mcs.anl.gov. the md5sums of the files we are using:
37dd0ca03f8c3117b571b92a51473b3d linux.suse.9.1 2987e927a80fe615f57d8308035e9c1b initrd.suse.9.1
which appear to match what is on that mirror.