Re: [suse-autoinstall] Getting profile with http on custom CD
I'm not sure about that. I thought that if I specified a directory instead of a concrete profile, the installer would download the profile whose name is the ip address of the station in hex. But, anyway, I've tried also specifying the concrete profile and the results were the same. I think it's problem with the installer: if you get the profile using http it expects to perform a network based installation, and if you select a cd-rom based installation it doesn't expect to download the profile from the net (when booting from diskette it doesn't even ask you for the net modules disk). Regards, Miguel Gómez Rodríguez gomez@dit.upm.es ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tor Sigurdsson" <tosi@orku.net> To: "Miguel Gómez" <gomez@dit.upm.es> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 12:08 AM Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Getting profile with http on custom CD
Shouldn't you be using
http://193.146.185.99/profiles/yourprofile
?
At least I have had to point directly to what profile I'm going to use...
-tosi
On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 17:13, Miguel Gómez wrote:
Hi,
I would like to create a custom installation CD that gets the profile
If I use "append initrd=initrd ramdisk_size=65536
autoyast=http://193.146.185.99/profiles/ instmode=cdrom" the installer doesn't find the profiles, although the are perfectly accessible on the server. I've tried also using "install=cdrom://" or "install=file://" instead of "instmode=cdrom", but the problem persisted.
If I use "append initrd=initrd ramdisk_size=65536
autoyast=http://193.146.185.99/profiles/" (omitting the install or instmode
from a http server, but I'm having several problems with the append parameters on my isolinux.cfg file: parameter), the installer tries to locate a network installation server with a DHCP query and doesn't use the CD as installation media. I don't use a DHCP server, I just enter manually the network parameters (netdevice, ip, netmask, etc.) at the boot prompt, so I get an error at this stage.
¿Can somebody tell me what kernel parameters should I use? ¿is it a bug
in yast2's automated installation?
Regards,
Miguel Gómez Rodríguez gomez@dit.upm.es
* Miguel Gómez <gomez@dit.upm.es> [Jun 05. 2002 09:38]:
I'm not sure about that. I thought that if I specified a directory instead of a concrete profile, the installer would download the profile whose name is the ip address of the station in hex.
But, anyway, I've tried also specifying the concrete profile and the results were the same. I think it's problem with the installer: if you get the profile using http it expects to perform a network based installation, and if you select a cd-rom based installation it doesn't expect to download the profile from the net (when booting from diskette it doesn't even ask you for the net modules disk).
It seems this option is not supported in linuxrc. We are working on a fix for SuSE Linux 8.0. Anas -- Anas Nashif <nashif@suse.com>, SuSE Linux AG Montreal (Laval), Canada
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