The only things I have changed in our XML config profile is the any reference to the hostname, and the MAC address and IP address. Everything else is the same.

IMHO that will not work because the machine needs a hostname and IP adress entry otherwise the installation will fail. So you are going to use the rules.xml to set hostname and ip-adress or change your autoinst.xml in such a way that the client will be fully dhcp configured. Keep in mind that if you are using dchp that the clients depends on it during their lifetime. In case the client shall have fixed hostnames and ip numbers you have to go with the rules.xml hth Hajo

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"Richard Hobbs" <richard.hobbs@crl.toshiba.co.uk> 14/02/06 09:50:36

Hello,

I have a working and fully tested DHCP server, TFTP server, NFS file server and XML config profile which I have used to build the first of many servers. The whole system has worked fine, but now I've hit a rather critical problem - doing more than one server at a time seems to break them all! I have rebuilt our first server perhaps 15 times due to testing the XML profile, and each time it worked perfectly. I now have 8 machines which I would like to install, so I've copied the 001422B0C61F XML file to a filename which matches the other MAC addresses, and I have told our DHCP server to give out the necessary MAC addresses as well. The only things I have changed in our XML config profile is the any reference to the hostname, and the MAC address and IP address. Everything else is the same. When I boot up all 8 machines from the network, they all boot into the boot loader from the TFTP server, and they all boot into autoyast. They all load their own XML config files, but part of the way through installing the packages, the machines hang. Ctrl + Alt + F[1-6] does nothing, so all I can do is reboot using Ctrl + Alt + Del. The TFTP Server, NFS Server and the server hosting the config profiles (also over NFS) is the same machine, which can easily keep up with the demand for files... So much so, in fact, that the system load hardly increases at all during an install of a remote machine. What could be stopping me doing multiple NFS autoyast installs?? Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance, Richard. -- Richard Hobbs (Systems Administrator) Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. - Speech Technology Group Web: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/research/ Normal Email: richard.hobbs@crl.toshiba.co.uk Mobile Email: mobile@mongeese.co.uk Tel: +44 1223 376964 Mobile: +44 7811 803377 _____________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by Verizon Business Internet Managed Scanning Services - powered by MessageLabs. For further information visit http://www.mci.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help@suse.com