Hi I had initially installed a x86_64 bit machine with RHEL4 where swap partition is configured as a logical volume (/dev/VolGroup00/LGVol01). When reinstalling the system with SLES9 via autoinstall, just before partitioning the drive, an error message "Error could not mount swap partition /dev/VolGroup00/LGVol01" pops up prompting user to enter "OK" button. Thereafter it works fine. But this user intervention step defeats the purpose of autoinstall. I have used the following partitioning config with <use> tag set to "all". This should have erased the disks before partitioning right ?? ******************************************* <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <crypt>twofish256</crypt> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>/boot</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>100M</size> </partition> <partition> <crypt>twofish256</crypt> <create config:type="boolean">true</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>swap</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">130</partition_id> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>auto</size> </partition> <partition> <crypt>twofish256</crypt> <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>/</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>max</size> </partition> </partitions> <use>all</use> </drive> </partitioning> ******************************************** Ideas ?? Any help is appreciated. thanks kanji __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

On Wednesday 19 October 2005 21:38, Marvin H Green wrote:

I already created my control file for the Auto install but I'm not sure where to go next. I would like to get things setup so that the control file would be read during installation and avoid use intervention. Any ideas of what/how to do this?

linuxrc needs the "autoyast=path_to_your_profile" parameter. So if you boot from a CD, you have to enter "autoyast=....." at the boot menu prompt. path_to_your_profile can be "http://my.server/my.xml" for example -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany e-mail: uwe.gansert@suse.de, Tel: +49-(0)911-74053-0, Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de