RE: [suse-autoinstall] Using autoyast=file:// with CDROM based file, broken?
the file:///pathtofile seems to work really well if you imbed the control file in the initrd. Unzip initrd, mount it as a loop device, copy the control file to the right path, umount the initrd, zip it back up and make a new CD. Todd -----Original Message----- From: Dax Kelson [mailto:dax@gurulabs.com] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 11:37 AM To: boopathy krishnamoorthy Cc: autoinstall Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Using autoyast=file:// with CDROM based file, broken? On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 05:52 +0100, boopathy krishnamoorthy wrote:
You have to use the autoyast in isolinux.cfg as follows. autoyast=file:///d8. If d8 is present in the "installroot" directory itself. here "installroot" denotes the base directory of CD or DVD.
I tried with three slashes, eg, file:///d8 and I'm still getting the error. Is this supposed to work? I'm trying to do a NFS based autoyast install, but I'm booting off a CDROM I created that only contains the 5 files: isolinux.bin isolinux.cfg linux initrd d8 <--- my autoyast control file In my isolinux.cfg I have: label sl93ay kernel linux append initrd=initrd install=nfs://10.100.0.254/export/netinstall/SL9.3 ip=10.100.0.8 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=10.100.0.254 nameserver=10.100.0.254 textmode=1 autoyast=file:///d8 I still get an error saying it can't read the file. If I place the autoyast file on a NFS server and change the autoyast= like to point to it, it installs OK. So I know the syntax is valid inside the "d8" file. Dax Kelson Guru Labs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help@suse.com
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 10:51 -0700, Ness, Todd wrote:
the file:///pathtofile seems to work really well if you imbed the control file in the initrd. Unzip initrd, mount it as a loop device, copy the control file to the right path, umount the initrd, zip it back up and make a new CD.
Todd
OK. I can do that, but it is more effort to automate. Can this work with the control file not inside the initrd? It would be easier if it can just sit at the top level of the CDROM. Is there a file: syntax that works for that? Dax Kelson Guru Labs
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