I discovered problems with the floppy protocol. linuxrc found everything right, but then yast couldn't find the file. autoyast=device://fd0/info (bootparameter) resp. autoyast: device://fd0/info (linuxrc) worked for me. @dave: did you intentionally leave the comments (# start_linuxrc_conf / # end_linuxrc_conf) out? greetz sven -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Yan Fitterer [mailto:yfitterer@novell.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. Februar 2006 23:44 An: dbellis@mmm.com Cc: suse-autoinstall@suse.com Betreff: Re: [suse-autoinstall] autoyast/info file problem Actually - I've made a mistake myself. It should be: autoyast: floppy:///control.xml Note the extra / I read somewhere as well that there was a bug somewhere that prevented this from working (confirmed on SuSE 9.3). The workaround was to use: autoyast: device://fd0/control.xml As well, I don't believe you need the autoyast=floppy boot option. If the info file is found by linuxrc on the floppy (as it should), then that will be enough. Specifying the option on the command line may override what you put in the info file (not sure...). Yan

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On 21/02/2006 at 22:12, in message <43FB9052.6718.008C.0@novell.com>, "Yan Fitterer" <yfitterer@novell.com> wrote: You have some redundancy, and a couple of mistakes. Try:

install: nfs://169.10.63.215/instserv/9.0_x64 hostip: 169.10.248.36 netmask: 255.255.255.0 gateway: 169.10.248.1 nameserver: 169.10.8.4 autoyast: floppy://control.xml

I think "ip:" might be deprecated. Try "HostIP:" as above. autoyast: floppy://file.xml needs to point to the actual path and name for the control file.

See

http://www.suse.com/~ug/autoyast_doc/invoking_autoinst.html#id2543177

and

http://www.suse.com/~ug/autoyast_doc/info_file_format.html

Yan

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On 21/02/2006 at 21:41, in message <OFB9BC1F12.CDE5BBF5-ON8625711C.00762869-8625711C.007720BB@mmm.com>, <dbellis@mmm.com> wrote: I am new to SUSE and am trying to setup an AutoYaST install using the SUSE Linux CD1 to boot with the autoyast=floppy boot option.

On the floppy disk I have the autoinst.xml file and an info file.

The info file contains the following:

install: nfs://169.10.63.215/instserv/9.0_x64 netdevice: eth0 server: 169.10.63.215 serverdir: /instserv/9.0_x64 ip: 169.10.248.36 netmask: 255.255.255.0 gateway: 169.10.248.1 nameserver: 169.10.8.4 autoyast: floppy

I can mount the nfs share manually, but when I run the install process it fails with the following message:

"Could not find the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Installation Source"

Does anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Dave Bellis

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