RE: [opensuse-autoinstall] linuxrc 'install' alternative in AutoYaST profile

19 Apr 2011

      Hi, 

i succeeded to play with Exec= and here is short howto:

1. Extract initrd you use to start installation (i.e. get one from opensuse/SUSE media from boot/i386/loader).
http://wiki.openvz.org/Modifying_initrd_image 

2. Create your script with required logic. I.e. if you want to set/modify linuxrc's 'install=' parameter, edit
/linuxrc.config file and add following to the config file withing the script:
Install:        ftp://<ip>/path/to/suse/install

Example of /linuxrc.config:
KernelPCMCIA:   1
UseUSBSCSI:     1
Product:        SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
UpdateDir:      /linux/suse/i386-sled11
MemLoadImage:   327680
MemYaST:        170000
InstsysComplain:        1
InitrdID:       2010-05-20.3ee27c11
dud:            disk:/?device=*usb*
KexecReboot:    0
Install:        ftp://172.17.1.187/SLED11SP1
AutoYaST:       ftp://172.17.1.187/autoyast/autoinst.xml
Netdevice:      eth0
Netsetup:       dhcp

3. Create the new initrd

4. Start your installation - insert following boot parameter into boot parameters: exec=/path/to/your/script/on/initrd

5. That's it ;)

HTH,

Stanley
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On 12/04/2011 at 15:27, in message
<4D97025D38B52B4BAA8C2B7DD9748B9D38469B3F2F@PEPWMV00071.corp.pep.pvt>,
"Stephens, Bill PBSG" <Bill.Stephens@pepsico.com> wrote: 
Yes, please provide an example.  I've been wanting to do this for quite a  
while and haven't found an easy way yet.
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From: Joseph V Moss [mailto:jmoss@ecsmtp.pdx.intel.com]  
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 3:42 PM 
To: Stanislav Bocinec 
Cc: opensuse-autoinstall@opensuse.org 
Subject: Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] linuxrc 'install' alternative in AutoYaST  
profile
Note that while you can't do it via autoyast, it is possible to 
make changes to the installation source using the Exec: option in 
linuxrc.  The command run by Exec: runs early enough that it 
can make changes to the content of the info file and have the 
new values used by linuxrc.
We use that functionality to use one set of boot media globally 
that automatically selects the nearest regional install server.
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Thanks very much!
Stanley
Stanislav Bocinec
Technology Consultant 
sbocinec@novell.com  
+421 2 32 555 843, gsm +421 917 486 743 
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On 11/04/2011 at 13:43, in message <201104111343.03090.ug@suse.de>, Uwe  
Gansert 
<ug@suse.de> wrote:  
on Monday 11 April 2011 Stanislav Bocinec wrote:
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It means, that there is no way how to set/modify 'installÃ¿parameter  
using  
AutoYaST profile?
that's right. You can not switch the installation source  
It's on my TODO but not yet implemented
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