Re: [suse-autoinstall] Install using FTP
I have tried many combinations with that. I have tried with the trailing / and also tried to use a . to indicate current directory. I try to take a look at the install.inf file but it passes so quickly I am not able to get the information I need. could you give me a sample syntax you would use? The install account drops directly into the directory where it is installing from so there will be no FTP://server/"dir". could that be the problem? Robert Morrow
Anas Nashif <nashif@suse.de> 11/23/04 9:34 PM >>> Try having the complete URL in "install" with trailing slash and remove
installdir. You can try those options directly on the command line till it works. You can also install manually and when yast2 starts switch to the console and look into the file /etc/install.inf and see what the install URL is like, which you can use in the info file for automated installation. Anas Robert Morrow wrote:
I have set up an autointall and it works fine when I have it set up with NFS. I created an info file with all the information need to log into the server. But it tells me it can not find the instalation source. If i manualy go threw the steps i can use the same ftp to install it. here is the info file
InstMode: ftp install: ftp://**********.kumc.edu username: ******** password: ***************** InstallDir: / netdevice: eth0 server: *******.kumc.edu usedhcp: 0 netmask: 255.255.255.0 gateway: 10.13.6.1 autoyast: floppy
If anyone has any comments I could use the help. Thanks Robert Morrow
it should be as simple as install=ftp://<host>/dir/ You can always switch to the console when yast2 is running, I dont understand why you are switched back, you have to wait till yast2 has started. Anas Robert Morrow wrote:
I have tried many combinations with that. I have tried with the trailing / and also tried to use a . to indicate current directory. I try to take a look at the install.inf file but it passes so quickly I am not able to get the information I need. could you give me a sample syntax you would use? The install account drops directly into the directory where it is installing from so there will be no FTP://server/"dir". could that be the problem?
Robert Morrow
Anas Nashif <nashif@suse.de> 11/23/04 9:34 PM >>>
Try having the complete URL in "install" with trailing slash and remove
installdir.
You can try those options directly on the command line till it works. You can also install manually and when yast2 starts switch to the console and look into the file /etc/install.inf and see what the install URL is like, which you can use in the info file for automated installation.
Anas
Robert Morrow wrote:
I have set up an autointall and it works fine when I have it set up
with
NFS. I created an info file with all the information need to log
into
the server. But it tells me it can not find the instalation source.
If
i manualy go threw the steps i can use the same ftp to install it.
here
is the info file
InstMode: ftp install: ftp://**********.kumc.edu username: ******** password: ***************** InstallDir: / netdevice: eth0 server: *******.kumc.edu usedhcp: 0 netmask: 255.255.255.0 gateway: 10.13.6.1 autoyast: floppy
If anyone has any comments I could use the help. Thanks Robert Morrow
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