Hello,

I am trying to autoinstall SLES 10 in HD mode (disk to disk). It worked for SLES 9 but does not any longer with SLES 10.

The problem is that YaST tries to mount my source partition when formating the other partitions and this fails because the source partition is alerady mounted.

This is my partition schema:

sda1: ext3 16GB sda2: swap sda3: fat32 16BG

The third partition does contain the installation source. This is the autoyast partition plan:

<partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/sda</device> <initialize config:type="boolean">false</initialize> <is_evms_vg config:type="boolean">false</is_evms_vg> <is_lvm_vg config:type="boolean">false</is_lvm_vg> <use>1,2</use> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <fsopt>defaults,acl</fsopt> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>/</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <size>16gb</size> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem> <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs> <mount>swap</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">130</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <size>512mb</size> </partition> </partitions> </drive> </partitioning>

And the kernel command line for autoyast: install=hd://sda3/suse AutoYaST=file:///autoyast.xml The autoyast file (autoyast.xml) is contained in the initrd. Kernel and initrd are booted from sda3. This worked for SLES 9 with a little trick (unmounting /mounts/extra in a pre-install script). Any ideas how to get the disk to disk autoyast installation working for SLES 10?

Regards, i. A. Moritz Wenk

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