on Monday 11 January 2010 Stephen Dowdy wrote:
I just presume that "rules.xml" can't have any "class" directives in it, so using the wildcard match is "the way to go?"
that's right
My understanding is that if i placed this rules file on the USB key's VFAT filesystem as '/cf/rules/rules.xml' and boot with:
linux autoyast=usb:///cf/ ZORKsite=site1 ZORKnode=ingest
It does work, but i have to diddle it a bit. It initially fails with something like "Make sure install media is in Disk 1" (can't recall exactly.).
All i have to do is hit "[BACK]", then proceed through the selection for Language and Keyboard, then "Setup or Install System", then select "Hard Disk" and then the partition for the USB key, then it works fine.
okay, then the problem is different. linuxrc can not find the installation source on it's own for some reason. Does that dialog appear without autoyast=.... parameter too? Do you see any special error on any console? This is not very likely but do you have a parameter "manual=1" set? That would trigger the dialog too. The dialog you see raises before autoyast has started at all so it's hardly an autoyast issue.
But from what i'm reading, "file:///cf/" should "just work" as expected? I'll give that a try.
with the error above, I have doubts a change of the autoyast parameter will help.
Thanks for the tip on the secondary partition, that's useful to know.
but will not help with the problem above either :) Maybe you don't need that at all, with the file:/// parameter or the own partition for the profile. I'm not 100% sure how the resolver behaves on SP3. On SP3 it was not needed for sure and on SLES11 it is needed for sure but I'm uncertain about SP3. The hint with the file:/// only helps if autoyast can not find it's profile. But in your case linuxrc can not find the inst-source. -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Business: http://www.suse.de/~ug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org