Lonni, I'll give that a shot, but I thought that you just had to get the pattern from the ./suse/setup/descr directory, or was that just a dumb/lucky guess on my part? Pete At 01:18 PM 7/28/2006, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

Hi Pete, Yes, unfortunately the patterns changed, which I also found out hte hard way. SuSE hasn't done a very good job of documenting them (as far as i could tell).

The following worked for me with SLED10: <software> <patterns config:type="list"> <pattern>Basis-Devel</pattern> <pattern>Gnome</pattern> <pattern>default</pattern> <pattern>Kde</pattern> <pattern>base</pattern> <pattern>X11</pattern> </patterns>

If that doesn't help you, you should prolly post your autoyast.xml

On 7/28/06, Pete Nishimoto <peten@east.sun.com> wrote:

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Hi,

I had downloaded SLES 10 RC2 and got it to work with our PXE server using some site specific autoyast.xml files.

I then downloaded SLES 10 GM, set it up on the PXE server in exactly the same way I setup SLES 10 RC2 (that is, the directory structure, etc.) and then just copied the autoyast.xml files from the SLES 10 RC2 tree to the SLES 10 GM tree.

However, when I attempt an install, YAST now claims

"could not set patterns or selections : default"

I get the same results with SLED 10, using the same autoinst.xml.

The software section is as follows:

<software> <patterns config:type="list"> <pattern>default</pattern> </patterns> </software>

Have things changed between RC2 and GM? Has the directory layout changed? Are there other files/links from the root directory required?

I ask this 2nd part because when I 'snoop', the NFSLOOKUP activity for RC2 (working) and the GM (not-working) installs access the same files, in the same order up to a point -- RC2 will look at the file 'content' and 'content.asc' and then start opening up pattern files, but GM does not.

Note that I've setup this installation directory using a DVD made from 0.34-1 of makeSUSEdvd, as well as using the official GM CD iso images, and I always get the same results.

Another datapoint is that I did an install using the generated DVD and then took the autoinst.xml file that was generated and put that in the PXE directory and tried the network install using this generated autoinst.xml file -- same results.

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