typos in autoinstall FAQ
Anas, Thanks for the FAQ -- it's helping me move forward on SLES installation server setup... There are some typos in the example code for 2.5 (HTTP loopback mount of ISO images): printf "/SP3\t/SP3" > yast/order printf "/SLES\t/SLES" > yast/order printf "/UL/CD1\t/UL/CD1" >> yast/order printf "/unitedlinux-i386/CD1\t/unitedlinux-i386/CD1" > yast/instorder printf "/sles8-i386/CD1\t/sles8-i386/CD1" >> yast/instorder printf "/SP3\t/SP3" > yast/instorder first, there is a missing '>' in the second and the last line. second, either the command needs be changed to 'echo -e', or '\n' needs to be added to the end of the strings. third, I'm not sure that the sets of data match. This is the only place I've seen different naming conventions used in the same pair of order/instorder files. The 'order' file refers to '/SLES', and the 'instorder' file refers to '/sles8-i386/CD1' finally, I _think_ to match the directory structure earlier in the example, the correct refernce to SP3 should be '/SP3/CD1' I'm not sure about the last two, as even with with (and without) those changes, I still can't get sles8 sp3 to install via HTTP. --Hal
Thanks to help from Jens, I've not got a working sles 8 sp 3 http install server setup. Here are the corrections to the FAQ instructions: Add missing symlink command: ln -sf SLES/content Correct generation of yast/order and yast/instorder: printf "/SP3/CD1\t/SP3/CD1\n" > yast/order printf "/SLES\t/SLES\n" >> yast/order printf "/UL/CD1\t/UL/CD1\n" >> yast/order printf "/UL/CD1\n" > yast/instorder printf "/SLES\n" >> yast/instorder printf "/SP3/CD1\n" >> yast/instorder Note that if you also need an SP 2a version, you would ADD the following steps: mkdir -p SP2a/{CD1,CD2} mount -o loop /archive/iso/UnitedLinux-1.0-SP-2a-i386-RC1-CD1.iso SP2a/CD1 mount -o loop /archive/iso/UnitedLinux-1.0-SP-2a-i386-RC1-Source.iso SP2a/CD2 And change the SP3 references in the yast/order & yast/instorder file to SP2a NOTE that the symlinks in the root of the install server remain the same for a different service pack. You still need the boot information from SP3, and the pointers to media.1 and content from base SLES work fine. --Hal
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