NFS based autoinstall from multiple sources...
Hi... I made my first attempt to use autoyast2 this week end and I'm still having some problems... Actually, I'm trying to find the "right" way of using it... Here's is what I am trying to do: I would like to setup an NFS autoinstall which lets me install the standard packages from the SuSE-8.1 DVD + some additional packages not included in SuSE-8.1. I decided to manage that by building a "custom" distribution directory which I called MGL-8.1 which contains the additional packages... I built MGL-8.1 by "duplicating" the structure of SuSE-8.1 and I believe it is correct as I can use it without problem with YaST2 as an additional distribution. I then organized the root of my NFS exported directory as indicated in the documentation (chapter 6) by creating the yast/order, etc... (See attachments...). When installing (booting a grub boot diskette with inst=IP://export the installation fails to locate the packages descr (from y2log, it is looking for ./suse/setup/descr). It seems that the content of the yast directory is just ignored (I can't find any mention of it in the logs) as the install does not find the SuSE-8.1 data. By the way, inst=IP://export/SuSE-8.1 works fine but, of course, does not handles my MGL-8.1 directory... Have I missed something??? Thanks in advance for any help... Fred. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Frédéric Cros (fred@macguff.fr) http://www.macguff.fr Mac Guff Ligne Vox: +33 1 53 58 46 46 6, rue de la Cavalerie Fax: +33 1 53 58 46 47 75015 PARIS - FRANCE # yast/instorder: order of installation sources # # install 'ul' before 'sles8' # /yast/SuSE-8.1 /yast/MGL-8.1 #/ # yast/order: priority of installation sources # # source- product # description path /yast/MGL-8.1 /MGL-8.1 /yast/SuSE-8.1 /SuSE-8.1 #/ / This is the organisation of my NFS export directory: boot/ # copied from SuSE-8.1 content # copied from SuSE-8.1 media.1/ # copied from SuSE-8.1 profiles/ # where I store the intallation profiles... MGL-8.1/ # My custom directory media.1/ media # media ID (faked fom SuSE-8.1) content # content file, (faked fom SuSE-8.1) suse/ setup/ descr/ packages packages.DU packages.en SuSE-8.1/ # Pure SuSE DVD copy media.1/ media content suse/ setup/ descr/ *.sel packages packages.DU packages.en packages.de ... packages.pt yast/ instorder # instorder file order # order file MGL-8.1/ # symlink to ../MGL-8.1 SuSE-8.1/ # symlink to ../SuSE-8.1 NOTE: I tryed with both symlinks and full copies of MGL-8.1/ & SuSE-8.1/ but it made no difference...
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Frédéric Cros