I stopped getting that error after copying the DVD to the 8.2 directory using the same command mentioned below. I apologize for wasting everyone's valuable time. Thanks mb ----- Forwarded by Mouncef Belcaid/NIRM/BLM/DOI on 01/19/2004 04:19 PM ----- Mouncef_Belcaid@b lm.gov To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com cc: 01/19/2004 08:50 Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Autoinstallation and SuSE 8.2 Pro AM Thank you for the suggestion. I copied all CDs to one directory using the following command for all CDs: mount /media/cdrom; cp -va /media/cdrom /repository/suse/8.2; eject Mouncef Anas Nashif To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com cc: 01/16/2004 07:02 Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Autoinstallation and SuSE 8.2 Pro PM Patrick Greenwell wrote:

http://portal.suse.de/sdb/en/2003/03/rschmid_slesnfs.html may help.

not reallly, this is more for sles configurations.. Mouncef, how did you copy the CDs, are all in the same directory or do you have seperate dirs for every CD? You have to copy them all into one directory if you wish to run the create_package_descr command, otherwise you dont need to run it, unless you change the packages. Anas

On Jan 16, 2004 4:29 PM, Mouncef_Belcaid@blm.gov wrote:

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Hi everyone,

I have been trying to install SuSE 8.2 using autoyast2 for the past

couple

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of days. It worked with SuSE 9.0 but I'm having trouble with 8.2. I set up a repository from the 5 CDs provides with the SuSE distribution under /repository/suse/8.2, ran the following command: /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/create_package_descr -d /repository/suse/8.2/suse and

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shared it using nfs. This server is the pxe/tftp server as well as the nfs and dhcp server.

I start the test machine, it goes through the configuration, formatting and installation process. Once it reboots the first time, it tries to install

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more packages and that is when it asks me to insert "CD 2". My question is, why doesn't it retrieve the rest of the packages from the nfs mount? This

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issue didn't happen with the SuSE 9.0 automated installation.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance, Mouncef

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