Hans-Joachim Ehlers schrieb:

Might help

• try to use only extended partitions
• use a preinstall script to wipe out the factory partition or create from a prescript the partition table you need and tell autoyast to reuse the partition table.

Notes: AFAIK installing via NFS is not working thus you should use http / usb

hth Hajo

Hello,

a short (and very late) feedback - sorry!

I use extended partitions und wiped out the factory partition. No way to get autoyast working. It always tells me that there was an error retrieving the profile from the http-server (code 0).

It only works when i define "hostip" with fixed ip adress *and* "vnc=1" option. Than I can follow the installation via vnc, but after the first reboot the system hangs.

It shows a kind of black and white dos-bootscreen and when trying to boot openSUSE it hangs and says:

Error 15: File not found

Autoyast in openSUSE 10.3 seems to be a big bug - nothing else - that's sad!

Isn't there a patch for autoyast for the iso-image of a new dvd?

Regards, Ivan

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Ivan De Masi it-support@asta.tu-darmstadt.de 26/02/2008 14:04 >>>

Dear listmembers,

I'm getting crazy trying to install openSUSE 10.3 from a created autoinst.xml profile file.

I tried to tell autoyast to get the profile from usb-stickt, nfs-share and a webserver - no chance! I always get a message like that there was an error reading the profile.

I only got it half way working using the option "vnc=1" . Than autoyast reads the profile (from the webserver), but stops with partitioning problems because of a factory partiton. I saw now thht this is a bug...

But getting back to my first problem: What can I do?

We want to set up some new clients with openSUSE 10.3 and I don't want to do that 50 times ...

Thanks, Ivan