hi, On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Uwe Gansert <ug@suse.de> wrote:
how, in autoyast, can i get the DomU installer to mount & use the vfb's phy: devices for the install as defined in "an" /etc/fstab passed to it?
it's not that easy. Autoyast recycles some code of the system updater to detect a root partition with an /etc/fstab. Unfortunately that code checks a lot more than just the existence of the fstab file, like the installed architecture, the installed suse-release and so on. Just an fstab is not enough. I see room for enhancement there :)
thanks for clarifying. fwiw, this is an issue/challenge only if trying to use pre-formatted LVMs created in the Dom0 _as_ the drives in the DomU. i.e., passing the disks as phy:.../xvda1. for that to work -- without other hoops to jump through -- the fstab needs to be there. i _do_ understand that i can pre-populate those formatted LVMs with the typical root dir tree beforehand, but, when trying to keep DomU's "thin" there's often too much copied. one option is to keep a minimal-spin around, and copy from _that_. just more work that ideally needs to be done. of course, passing the LVMs in as physical devices, i.e. as phy:.../xvda, and letting autoyast create/format subpartitions, e/g/ /dev/xvda1, works perfectly. like you said, perhaps a future enhancement ... thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org