How do I prevent re-install?
Goal: Unnattended install of SUSE 9.1 using autoyast2. I've successfully done a minimal installation using auto-yast on SuSE 9.1. After the client finished install, it rebooted. It's set to boot from PXE so it started up the entire install process. and started to install again. I have <forceboot config:type="boolean">false</forceboot> set in the config file. In chapter 4 of the docs it states: "Change starting from SUSE Linux 9.1/SLES9 The reboot property in the mode resource was used to force a reboot after initial system setup and before the system is rebooted for the first time. Currently after initial installation all systems must reboot, which makes thes option obsolete." Given that a reboot is inevitable, how do I stop a perpetual install loop? DT -- Dave Thacker Senior Systems Administrator Omni Hotels Reservation Center V:402-952-6535 F:402-334-8013 M: 402-981-4613 (24/7)
This is not a clean way, but what I do is to move the config file from /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/[IP address] to another name (I chose [ip Address]_local). that way the machine will boot from local disk. I just run a script when I want to install a machine that 1st moves the config file to /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/[IP address], then after some time (10 min) renames the file to something that will not be found. Im sure there is a cleaner way to do this ..... Dave Thacker <dthacker@omnihotels.com> wrote: Goal: Unnattended install of SUSE 9.1 using autoyast2. I've successfully done a minimal installation using auto-yast on SuSE 9.1. After the client finished install, it rebooted. It's set to boot from PXE so it started up the entire install process. and started to install again. I have false set in the config file. In chapter 4 of the docs it states: "Change starting from SUSE Linux 9.1/SLES9 The reboot property in the mode resource was used to force a reboot after initial system setup and before the system is rebooted for the first time. Currently after initial installation all systems must reboot, which makes thes option obsolete." Given that a reboot is inevitable, how do I stop a perpetual install loop? DT -- Dave Thacker Senior Systems Administrator Omni Hotels Reservation Center V:402-952-6535 F:402-334-8013 M: 402-981-4613 (24/7) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help@suse.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
In SLES9 there is a feature which is not documented exactly to solve this problem: <install> ... <pxe> <pxe_localboot config:type="boolean">true</pxe_localboot> <pxelinux-config> DEFAULT linux LABEL linux localboot 0 </pxelinux-config> <tftp-server>192.168.1.1</tftp-server> </pxe> ... </install> This will make YaST upload the contents of <pxelinux-config> to the TFTP server. /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg has to be world writable. Anas Dave Thacker wrote:
Goal: Unnattended install of SUSE 9.1 using autoyast2.
I've successfully done a minimal installation using auto-yast on SuSE 9.1. After the client finished install, it rebooted. It's set to boot from PXE so it started up the entire install process. and started to install again. I have <forceboot config:type="boolean">false</forceboot> set in the config file. In chapter 4 of the docs it states: "Change starting from SUSE Linux 9.1/SLES9 The reboot property in the mode resource was used to force a reboot after initial system setup and before the system is rebooted for the first time. Currently after initial installation all systems must reboot, which makes thes option obsolete."
Given that a reboot is inevitable, how do I stop a perpetual install loop? DT
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