On 01/13/2010 03:07 AM, Uwe Gansert wrote:

on Tuesday 12 January 2010 D. Bahi wrote:

thanks for your response - sorry for the delay - back from quick trip.

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Installing to a network disk works well with 1st stage - but the 2nd stage restarts networking... and this doesn't seem like a good thing when running over a network disk....

which SUSE version?

sles11 or opensuse11.2 both fail in this way.

which will postpone the restart of the network a bit. But as soon as you have a <networking> section, the network will be restarted on the second stage during the normal boot process (after yast has run)

well that's just the point. how can i install to a network share, as the only storage media, and have the network restart? db -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org

On 01/20/2010 11:44 AM, Katarina Machalkova wrote:

Hi,

Hello Katarina, thank you for your reply.

Hmm ... folks using root on NFS or iSCSI tend to put affected network interfaces into startmode "nfsroot" or "ibft" [1] (this is STARTMODE param in ifcfg file, <startmode> element in XML profile).

yes exactly - and do you happen to remember how to set this if doing a prompted install (not autobuild) ? or is this something that is yet to be done under the covers if installing to an iscsi disk ?

This is the way to tell init scripts controlling network not to bring the interface down during 'rcnetwork stop' (one can of course still do 'ifdown $iface' manually).

fB.

[1] "ibft" is new in SLE11 SP1

so not even in opensuse 11.2 then - right ? thanks again. db -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org

Hey, there, I usually do not reply to my own posts, but there is a small, yet misleading inaccuracy in here:

Hmm ... folks using root on NFS or iSCSI tend to put affected network interfaces into startmode "nfsroot" or "ibft" [1] (this is STARTMODE param in ifcfg file, <startmode> element in XML profile).

A valid startmode is just "nfsroot" and it is applicable to both NFS and iSCSI. "ibft" is a keyword as well, but to a BOOTPROTO parameter (as you can see, ibft feature is fairly new :) ) If you're installing (interactively) SLE11 SP1 or openSUSE 11.3 [1] and YaST detects disk on network, it'll automatically create an interface config file with correct startmode. fB. [1] Packages with these features in are built for openSUSE 11.2 in YaST:Head OBS repo, as usually -- \\\\\ Katarina Machalkova \\\\\\\__o YaST developer __\\\\\\\'/_ & hedgehog painter