Hello all, I'm having trouble getting autoinstall to work with SuSE 9.1. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if something's broken. Here are the basics: - I've downloaded a complete copy of the 9.1 distribution, put it on an NFS server (10.0.0.57) and exported it as /home/suse. - I've created a customized control file using YaST2-autoinstall (with manual customization) and placed it in /home/suse on the NFS server. - I've cut a CD using "boot.iso" from the distribution, with no customization; I'm just planning to manually enter the correct autoyast command-line. - I boot off the CD, interrupt the timer, and then put "autoyast=nfs://10.0.0.57/home/suse/arpmin.xml" in the command-line options line. - The system starts to attempt the autoinstall, then fails saying it can't contact the install server. Log attached below, please note comments following: Log from installer: ---trim--- Looking for network server.. Ok, that didn't work; see if we can activate another network device... insmod /modules/mii.ko insmod /modules/e100.ko Ok, that seems to have worked. :-) Looking for a network server again... Trying to activate eth0 Setting up localhost...done Sending DHCP request to eth0... no/incomplete answer. Ok, that didn't work;see if we can activate another network device... No further network carcds found giving up. hostname: 10.0.0.200 netmaks: 255.255.255.0 broadcast: 10.0.0.255 gateway: 10.0.0.1 server: 10.0.0.10 nameserver: 10.0.0.8 Looking for a network server... Trying to activate eth0 Setting up locathost...done **** dhcpcd: already running **** dhcpcd: if not then delete /var/run/dhcpd-eth0.pid file Sending DHCP request to eth0... no/incomplete answer. Ok that didn't work; see if we can activate another network device... No further network cards found; giving up.. Automatic setup not possible. ---end--- Does anyone else find it odd that the script appears to give up on DHCP just before the machine apparently gets a full set of parameters from DHCP? Perhaps the timeout is ridiculously low? In any case, if anyone has any idea how to fix this, I would really appreciate it. Thanks! Dave C --------------------------------------------------------- David Corlette mailto:corlette@huarp.harvard.edu (617)495-5922 http://www.arp.harvard.edu