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On 8/29/2013 at 11:22, Thomas Fehr wrote: Hi,

On Thu, Aug 29, Andreas Taschner wrote:

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Hi

In an attempt to create SLES11SP2/3 installation images, which contain various repositories with some in-house developed RPMs, some questions have popped up from my customer.

Although I have searched in the "usual places"++ (admit not being very good at that) I have not been able to find clear answers.

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My question is how can I refer to a repository in an autoyast file, when the repository resides in the same medium as the installation files?

In my autoyast file I have <add-on> <listentry> cd:///repos/my_repo1 <product>my_product1</product> / <name>my_product1</name> </listentry> </add-on>

Should the media_url be cd:///<path> or can I use file:///<path>? If I use a usb disk instead of a CD, should I change the cd:///<path> to usb:///<path>? Would it be possible to use relurl:///<path>? In that case what is considered the root of the SuSE DVD installation media, the root directory or some other path?

It seems that cd:/// works for installation with a DVD. I didn't find this in the documentation and I don't know if file:/// is supposed to work or not.

I once had a case about location of the info file for linuxrc (where one could refer to info=disk:/info?device=*usb*), but I am not sure this applies to AutoYaST. Also the paths available during installation are not clear to me.

Is anybody willing to elaborate or point to sources that document the naming schemes and paths.

Unfortunately all the mentioned urls are handled at completely different places (linuxrc, autoyast, zypper). For autoyast xml control file you can use something like "autoyast=device:/autoinst.xml" or "usb:/autoinst.xml" which will search on all disk or usb devices for the mentioned path. The methods to specify the autoyast control file are in Chapter "7.3.1 Command Line Options" of autoyast Documentation ("Table 7.2").

The add-on section of autoyast control file is handled by yast2-add-on and the urls ultimately by zypper. I am adding Ladislav Slezak and Michael Andres as the respective maintainers to CC: if they have a pointer to such a document for the URLs usable by zypper.

Thank you both ! Considering the hint to search for 'Supported URI formats:' in man zypper, we now know that zypper does not support USB devices directly. Would it then be possible to use the "hd:/subdir?device=/dev/sda1&filesystem=reiserfs" approach ? E.g. hd:/repository1?device=/dev/sdb1&filesystem=ext3 or am I over-/misinterpreting ? Best regards Andreas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org

On Thursday 29 August 2013 13:59:29 Andreas Taschner wrote:

Considering the hint to search for 'Supported URI formats:' in man zypper, we now know that zypper does not support USB devices directly.

Would it then be possible to use the "hd:/subdir?device=/dev/sda1&filesystem=reiserfs" approach ? E.g. hd:/repository1?device=/dev/sdb1&filesystem=ext3 or am I over-/misinterpreting ?

Yes, hd:/ is a generic schema for mountable blockdevices. If it's helpful we could add usb:/ as alias to hd:/ (without actually restricting it to usb devices). -- cu, Michael Andres +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Key fingerprint = 2DFA 5D73 18B1 E7EF A862 27AC 3FB8 9E3A 27C6 B0E4 +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael Andres SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Development, ma@suse.de GF:Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer, HRB16746(AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany, ++49 (0)911 - 740 53-0 +------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org