RE: [suse-autoinstall] SLES 10 and disk to disk autoyast installation - openSUSE Autoinstall

22 Sep 2006


      I've also been trying also to get disk-to-disk install working, also with EVMS volumes; do you get a similar error message to the following:
Failure occurred during following action: 
Mount /dev/sda1 to /boot
System error code was -3003
mount -t reiserfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot 
mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or /mnt/boot busy
Best regards
Niall
-----Original Message-----
From: Wenk, Moritz [mailto:Moritz.Wenk@maxdata.com]
Sent: 22 September 2006 14:15
To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com
Subject: [suse-autoinstall] SLES 10 and disk to disk autoyast installation
Hello,
I am trying to autoinstall SLES 10 in HD mode (disk to disk). It worked for SLES 9 but does not any longer with SLES 10.
The problem is that YaST tries to mount my source partition when formating the other partitions and this fails because the source partition is alerady mounted.
This is my partition schema:
sda1: ext3 16GB
sda2: swap
sda3: fat32 16BG
The third partition does contain the installation source. This is the autoyast partition plan:
<partitioning config:type="list">
   <drive>
    <device>/dev/sda</device>
    <initialize config:type="boolean">false</initialize>
    <is_evms_vg config:type="boolean">false</is_evms_vg>
    <is_lvm_vg config:type="boolean">false</is_lvm_vg>
    <use>1,2</use>
    <partitions config:type="list">
     <partition>
      <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
      <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
      <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
      <fsopt>defaults,acl</fsopt>
      <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
      <mount>/</mount>
      <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
      <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr>
      <size>16gb</size>
     </partition>
     <partition>
      <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
      <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
      <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
      <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
      <mount>swap</mount>
      <partition_id config:type="integer">130</partition_id>
      <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr>
      <size>512mb</size>
     </partition>
    </partitions>
   </drive>
  </partitioning>
And the kernel command line for autoyast: install=hd://sda3/suse AutoYaST=file:///autoyast.xml
The autoyast file (autoyast.xml) is contained in the initrd. Kernel and initrd are booted from sda3.
This worked for SLES 9 with a little trick (unmounting /mounts/extra in a pre-install script).
Any ideas how to get the disk to disk autoyast installation working for SLES 10?
Regards,
i. A.  Moritz Wenk
Specialist Product Engineering & Development
  Corporate Technology Software
MAXDATA Systeme GmbH
Elbestraße 12-16
D-45768 Marl
Telefon: +49 (0) 2365 952-2715
Telefax: +49 (0) 2365 952-2279
E-Mail : moritz.wenk@maxdata.de
http://www.maxdata.com
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