Hi ! Am just about to move from RedHat to Suse, -looks great so far.... I have started to setting up pxe and autoyast but I have some questions/problems. What I have done (brefly) is: cp -av <suse9.1 DVD> /export/suse91/ cp <suse9.1 DVD>/boot/loader/initrd /tftpboot/ cp <suse9.1 DVD>/boot/loader/linux /tftpboot/ rpm -Uvh syslinux-2.08-33.i586.rpm #from suse91 dvd cp /usr/share/syslinux/pxelinux.0 /tftpboot/ vi /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default (added source dir and autoinst.xml file) Started /sbin/yast2 autoyast and made selections for my client and then saved as autoinst.xml The client gets installed but : 1) I don't get graphical modus on the client during the install (only text). Looks as if it tries, but ends up with text mode. Any drivers missing somewhere (Using MSI intel i845, Hunday L50S) ? 2) Can I install a client manually from CDs/DVD, configure via yast and then save the complete configuration, and then use this file in the autoyast-process ? 3) Any documentation for setup / problems that I describe above ? Rgds / Jan Terje
jan terje tønnessen wrote:
The client gets installed but : 1) I don't get graphical modus on the client during the install (only text). Looks as if it tries, but ends up with text mode. Any drivers missing somewhere (Using MSI intel i845, Hunday L50S) ?
I had the same problem and Anas posted the solution a while ago: you have to add "vga=791" as option, e.g. as "append vga=791 initrd=initrd ..." in the pxelinux.cfg. Note that you can also use "vnc=1 vncpassword=whatever" and you will get the graphics mode accessible via vnc (even without the vga option). cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *
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