Hi Thomas, thanks for you answer. It would be great if this feature will be reestablished again and if there is a workaround to use this feature with SLES11.2. Thanks in advance, Detlev

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Thomas Fehr schrieb am 26.09.2012 um 14:30: Hi,

On Wed, Sep 26, Detlev Rolf wrote:

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Hello,

I'm trying to install our OES2 SP1 /SLES11 SP1 -Server via autoyast, booting with minicd.

Everything works fine, but I have a problem with the naming of the autoinstallation-file. I saved the file on a server on an http and nfs-share. I wrote the path to the file in the autoyast=-parameter of the isolinux.cfg on the minicd (I tried it with http and nfs).

It works if I - add the correct filename to the path - rename the autoinst.xml to "default" - rename the autoinst.xml to hexadecimal naming of the ip-adress.

But it doesn't work if I rename the file like the MAC-address of the server as described in http://doc.opensuse.org/products/draft/SLES/SLES-deployment_sd_draft/cha.dep loyment.autoinst.html

When I look with wireshark, I can see that the installation doesn't search for a file named as the MAC-address, only IP-address or "default" is searched for.

Is this a bug or do I have to pass any other parameters to the isolinux.cfg

Unfortunately this feature seems currently not to work any more. I had a quick look at the autoyast code, this was not changed recently.

Autoyast relies on an entry in /etc/install.inf (written by linuxrc) with key "HWAddr" to determine MAC address. Unfortunately this key seems not to exist any more (I checked SLES11 SP1, SP2 and openSuSE 12.2). I informed maintainer of linuxrc code, he will check and fix. Maybe there is a workaround to make linuxrc write this key, if yes I will tell here.

Bye, Thomas Fehr

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I assume you use dhcp to give the client a IP. If not i would be surprised to find the mac address in the install.inf file. So on my SLES11 SP1 installations ( via pxe/dhcp & tftp for the kernel ) the key still exist in the install.inf. The file is located in /var/lib/YaST2/install.inf after the installation and in /etc/install.inf during installation BTW: Also check that the initrd has the "tftp" program available. Its looks like tftp is not available on the standard initrd so i assume the protocol type tftp can not be used by autoyast. In case nothing helps: You could use a rule.xml to determine the mac address, fetch the xml from A HTTP server to a local directory and do a final "merge" In case a tftp client is available you could use the logic for pure tftp . Example ( Not working ): $ cat rules.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE autoinstall SYSTEM "/usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/rules.dtd"> <autoinstall xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns"> <rules config:type="list"> <rule> <custom1> <script> ## Get mac Address eval mac=$( cat /etc/install.inf | grep -i ^hwaddr | cut -f2- -d":" | tr -d: ) # Get install Server/Autoyast parameter eval ayast=$( cat etc/install.inf | grep -i | cut -f2- -d":" ) # Download via curl or wget wget ${ayast}/$mac.xml > /tmp/$mac.xml echo -n $mac </script> <match>*</match> exact </custom1> <result> <profile>/tmp/@custom1@.xml</profile> <continue config:type="boolean">false</continue> </rule> </rules> </autoinstall> Hth Hajo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org