On Wednesday 04 January 2006 08:50, T. Ribbrock wrote:
What strikes me as odd is that "Floppydisk" says "/dev/sdb" - strange...
And THAT was the give-away... <drum-roll> There was a USB stick in one of the USB ports! Once I removed it, the auto-install went as usual.
Ah. So we can close that X-File ;)
This makes me feeling stupid for not checking before - and curious: Does the autoinstaller always check USB sticks first before reading the information from the floppy? It's kind of weird - the autoinstaller finds the 'info' file on the floppy but then proceeds to read the rest from the USB stick - which fails, as there is no 'info' nor 'autoinst.xml' on that stick. Is this desired behaviour or some oddity related to the actual PC in question?
those are two completely different componets. First linuxrc looks for the info file and can find it on the "real" floppy. Then later, autoyast tries to access the floppy too to read the profile and it looks like that yast has a different opinion on what is the floppy disc than linuxrc had. I can't say if this is a general problem or if this is hardware dependant but at least it's explainable ;) -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany e-mail: uwe.gansert@suse.de, Tel: +49-(0)911-74053-0, Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de