We spent yesterday trying to get autoinst.xml file to be recognized in / of the cdrom as well, no luck. With package version autoyast2-installation-2.6.41-62 I have made reading xml files from a /profiles directory of the initrd work, with a autoyast=file:/profiles/filename.xml in the isolinux.cfg file. Todd -----Original Message----- From: Manuel.Laesser@telekurs.com [mailto:Manuel.Laesser@telekurs.com] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 11:11 AM To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject: [suse-autoinstall] autoinst.xml on self-made cd Hello, sorry to bother you again and again. I'm using SLES8 with autoyast2-2.6.44-7 and autoyast2-installation-2.6.44-7. I think this is the latest version for SLES8 (comming with SP3). I copied autoinst.xml to the root of my self-made CD-ROM and I'm using the following parameter in isolinux.cfg # autoyast label autoyast kernel linux append initrd=initrd ramdisk_size=65536 autoyast=default instmode=cd usedhcp=0 textmode=1 If you use parameter "autoyast=default" YaST2 will look for autoinst.xml in the following three places (according to Anas Nashif PDF SLES8 - Automatic Linux Installation and Configuration with YaST2) : 1. the root directory of the floppy disk 2. the root directory of the installation medium (CD-ROM in my case) 3. the root directory of the initial ram disk used to boot the system Cool......unfortunately it doesn't work at all in my environment. I tried with "autoyast=file:/autoinst.xml", "autoyast=file://autoinst.xml", "autoyast=default" I always got this bloody control menu where it asks for the location of the autoinst.xml! From there I could choose http, device, floppy, nfs....but I didn't manage to access the cdrom. If I insert a floppy with my autoinst.xml in the root, the installation is proceeding. I also can edit isolinux.cfg with "autoyast=floppy://autoinst.xml" and it'll find autoinst.xml. Why do I get always very nice and well meant hints from the autoinstall mailing list telling me that the are using "...autoyast= default instmode=cd..." and everything is working fine. Does this have a coherence that I'm using SLES8 with autoyast2-2.6.44-7 and most of people Suse x.x with the newest autoyast2 autoyast2-2.8.14-20 or so..... I'm really stumped.... Any comment is welcome. Regards Manuel p.s. I'll send a box of the finest original swiss chocolate to the one who can give me the right tip to solve this problem...... ;-)) ----------------------------------------------------------- Telekurs Services Hardturmstrasse 201, 8005 Zürich Phone : +41 1 279 44 24 Fax : +41 1 279 34 44 mailto : manuel.laesser@telekurs.com -----------------------------------------------------------