profile questions

10 Apr 2002

      Hello Anas, I am back to SuSE 8.0 now.   I'm not sure the mailing list is
working yet but
I will copy this to suse-autoinstall@suse.com and see what happens.
I installed 8.0, ran the Configuration System, and generated a profile that
I copied to a floppy
as autoinst.xml.   When I use that file to autoinstall 8.0,  the
autoinstall seems to work, i.e. I do
not have to enter the language or other configuration queries, however, I
get a partitioning
error indicating /dev/sda3 cannot be mounted to /mnt/.
Here is the section on partitioning.   I have tried varying the partitions
and cannot make this work.

    <partitioning config:type="list" >
   <drive>
    <device>/dev/sda</device>
    <partitions config:type="list" >
     <partition>
      false

      131
      <format config:type="boolean" >false</format>
      <mount>/boot</mount>
      <size>20MB</size>
      <type>Linux native</type>
     </partition>
     <partition>
      false

      130
      <format config:type="boolean" >false</format>
      <mount></mount>
      <size>300MB</size>
      <type>Linux swap</type>
     </partition>
     <partition>
      false

      131
      <format config:type="boolean" >false</format>
      <mount>/</mount>
      <size>max</size>
      <type>Linux native</type>
     </partition>
    </partitions>
    <use>all</use>
   </drive>
  </partitioning>

Is there a more detailed description of how this should look, or how any of
the entries
in the  autoinst.xml  file should look.  The AutoYast2 document section I.
Profile Element Reference
lists the entries, but there is not much detail.

I noticed also that I cannot abort the installation when the error occurs.
If I select abort in
the error window,  the installation continues.  I must select continue and
later hit the abort
installation button.

Thank you,

Rose Lopez Carreno
Servers Software Development
Phone:  (919) 543-9284
                8-441-9284  (tieline)
 Email=rlopezca@us.ibm.com

                      Anas Nashif                                                                                               
                               To:       Rose Lopez Carreno/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS                                   
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                      04/01/2002 09:13         Subject:  Re: Config System/mailing list questions                               
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Hello,
* Rose Lopez Carreno  [Apr 01. 2002 15:45]:
...
Hello Anas,  I have a few questions for you regarding the Configuration
System and the mailing list.
I invoke the Configuration System via    /sbin/yast2  autoyast
I try to create a single system configuration.  I elect to configure a
new
profile, configure the options,
but then I cannot save the file.    I receive the error:   Warning:
Error
occured while saving the file.
I tried changing the profile and class directories but that did not help.
Are you trying to run autoyast as normal user by any chance? If yes,
make sure that the variable REPOSITORY in /etc/sysconfig/autoinstall is
set to a writable direcotry by normal users.
It is recommended to run autoyast as root.
...
Regarding the mailing list, I added my email address to the
suse-autoinstall mailing list.
I expected to see mail by now or perhaps not that active.  To post a
message do I just
send mail to suse-autoinstall@suse.com?   I can read the archives.
Still not active but hopfully with the launch of 8.0 it will be. Yes,
please send any emails to suse-autoinstall@suse.com.

Regards,
Anas
...
Thank you.
Rose Lopez Carreno
Servers Software Development
Phone:  (919) 543-9284
                8-441-9284  (tieline)
 Email=rlopezca@us.ibm.com
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