Autoinstallation from HDisk

7 Jul 2004

      Anas Nashif wrote:
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Werner Hack wrote:
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I try to install a PC from local HDisk using a selfmade BootCD.
But I can not manage it to work
Could you help me please and give me some hints.
I copied the SuSE DVD Distribution to 'serverdir'.
Booting from CD is working fine, the autoyast-file is read.
But then I get an error message :
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Could not set base selection: default
Error while configuring software selections
This is my isolinux.cfg file on CD:
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default Server
label Server
 kernel linux
 append textmode=1 initrd=initrd load_ramdisk=1
        rootimage=root insmod=reiserfs
        serverdir=/install/autoyast/SuSE/
        partition=hdb9
        autoyast=device://hdb9/install/autoyast/profiles/server.xml
Use 'install=hd://hdb9/install/autoyast/SuSE/'
or (even 'install=hd:///install/autoyast/SuSE/') instead. 'rootimage='
and insmod are not necessary.
If I am doing this I get a very early error message :

     Could not find the SuSE Installation Source
     Activating manual setup program

On console window I see this message :

     /dev/hdb9 is not a SuSE Linux installation media
      :
     Looking for a network server ...
      :
     Automatic setup not possible

Hm, strange - network installation for other workstations from the same 
source directory is working fine.
Am I missing any configuration parameter for autoinstallation from HDisk ?

The curious thing is :
If I continue installation manually after abortion of automatic setup,
installation source is found on HDisk ... BUT later on : 

     No profile for this machine could be found or retrieved
     (you remember: autoyast=device://hdb9/install/autoyast/profiles/server.xml)
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(append-line is written in one line)
On console window I can mount the partition manually and access the files.
This is the content of my CD:
./initrd
./isolinux.bin
./isolinux.cfg
./linux
./root
Look on virtual console nr. 3 and see whats going on there..
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All files (linux, initrd, root) are taken from SuSE DVD without any changes.
Any idea what's going wrong ?
Any advice will be appreciated.
Anas
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Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Werner Hack
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