October 2002 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: AW: [suse-autoinstall] applying patches
by Anas Nashif 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

* "Petersen, Jörg" <j.petersen(a)msh.de> [Oct 01. 2002 14:04]: > > > > For 8.1, which should be available by now, we have included > > a script to > > > do this. Format has changed and it is much more powerfull. > Just curious: what's the name of the script? > Thx, Jörg /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/create_package_descr Anas -- Anas Nashif <nashif(a)suse.com>, SuSE Linux AG Montreal (Laval), Canada

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Selecting an alternative kernel
by Neruda, Steve (SCI TW) 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

I'm building a configuration in which I need to use on of the alternate kernels supplied in the 8.1 distribution. I tried adding it as a package but it wound up installing both packages (k_smp and k_psmp). What is the correct way to specify what kernel package to load? SteveN

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Initrd Creater
by Daniel.Rothmund＠geberit.com 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

When I install the system with autoyast , the initr File does not exist in the boot Partition ! Freundliche Grüsse Daniel Rothmund

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Question about X11 configuration
by Alexander.Gehrig＠RSD.rohde-schwarz.com 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

hi i disable 3d-support but while auto-installation i get allways a request about it. <x11> <color_depth config:type="integer">16</color_depth> <configure_x11 config:type="boolean">true</configure_x11> <display_manager>kdm</display_manager> <enable_3d config:type="boolean">false</enable_3d> <resolution>1024x768</resolution> <start_x11 config:type="boolean">true</start_x11> <monitor> <display> <frequency config:type="integer">75</frequency> <height config:type="integer">768</height> <max_hsync config:type="integer">60</max_hsync> <max_vsync config:type="integer">75</max_vsync> <min_hsync config:type="integer">31</min_hsync> <min_vsync config:type="integer">50</min_vsync> </display> <monitor_device>1024X768@75HZ</monitor_device> <monitor_vendor>VESA</monitor_vendor> </monitor> </x11> Any ideas? bye Alexander

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X problem explained
by Marcel Ritter 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Hi again! I had some more test runs concerning my X problem: Here's what I figured out: X installation/configuration works fine - as long as you don't use VNC. Same setup with VNC failes to do any configuration, and does not even have the link /usr/X11R6/bin/X set ... As I like the VNC feature I'd like to use it - if possible with X configuration done automatically. Any hints? Ciao, Marcel ---- Marcel Ritter Linux Betreuer Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen ---- Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.

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sendmail dependency problem
by Christian Stoltze 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Hello, please can anybody help me in solving a rpm dependency problem in SuSE 8.1? I don't know why yast2 installs the package sendmail? In my selection list (need1.sel) which I attached to this mail, sendmail is not included. But any rpm in need1.sel requires sendmail. And I will be happy if I know the name of this rpm. I don't know the mechanism how yast2/rpm resolves the dependencies. Perhaps anybody can give me a good startpoint where I can read how I can check the dependencies with shell commands. What I have done so far is: get all tags for every rpm in the suse tree... $ RPMTAG_LIST=`rpm --querytags | sort` $ pkg=... $ for tag in $RPMTAG_LIST $ do echo "Flag $tag:" rpm -qp --queryformat "'%{$tag}'" $pkg done and search after sendmail and/or REQUIRE. Regards CS -- Christian Stoltze Computer Science, University of Constance (Lake Constance/SW-Germany) Email: Christian.Stoltze(a)uni-konstanz.de Voice: +49 (0)7531 88-4448 Fax: +49 (0)7531 88-3577

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sendmail dependency problem 2
by Christian Stoltze 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Sorry, I don't have attached need1.sel in my previous mail with subject "sendmail dependency problem". Hello, please can anybody help me in solving a rpm dependency problem in SuSE 8.1? I don't know why yast2 installs the package sendmail? In my selection list (need1.sel) which I attached to this mail, sendmail is not included. But any rpm in need1.sel requires sendmail. And I will be happy if I know the name of this rpm. I don't know the mechanism how yast2/rpm resolves the dependencies. Perhaps anybody can give me a good startpoint where I can read how I can check the dependencies with shell commands. What I have done so far is: get all tags for every rpm in the suse tree... $ RPMTAG_LIST=`rpm --querytags | sort` $ pkg=... $ for tag in $RPMTAG_LIST $ do echo "Flag $tag:" rpm -qp --queryformat "'%{$tag}'" $pkg done and search after sendmail and/or REQUIRE. Regards CS -- Christian Stoltze Computer Science, University of Constance (Lake Constance/SW-Germany) Email: Christian.Stoltze(a)uni-konstanz.de Voice: +49 (0)7531 88-4448 Fax: +49 (0)7531 88-3577

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Autoyast2 Raid
by Daniel.Rothmund＠geberit.com 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

When I install des System with Raid Partitions. The System directly sync the raid Partition. The Performance of the Installation goes down . Have you any Idea ? Freundliche Grüsse Daniel Rothmund

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create_package_descr problem
by Christian Stoltze 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

Hello, I am running into a problem after calling create_package_descr: Several rpms during auto-installation are not installed and the client cannot reboot. In the logfile /mnt/var/log/YaST2/y2logRPM of the client I see errors: ... devs-2002.9.4-9.i586.rpm failed execution of devs-2002.9.4-9 script failed, exit status 255 ... netcfg-2002.9.4-6.noarch.rpm failed execution of netcfg-2002.9.4-6 script failed, exit status 255 ... After copying the original files {packages,packages.DU,packages.de,packages.en} to suse/setup/descr the auto-installation succeeds. Has anybody a hint? I have diff'ed packages and packages.orig, but besides of the failing "+Aut: ... -Aut:" in the new file packages both files look identically. What I have done in detail on the installation server: 1) copy all data from DVD to a shared directory (/net/lin_suse8.1) # mount -o ro /cdrom && cd /cdrom && df -k . Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdc 4481888 4481888 0 100% /media/cdrom # cp -a . /net/lin_suse8.1 # diff -r --brief . /net/lin_suse8.1 # cd / && umount /cdrom 2) I do not need the src tree # cd /net/lin_suse8.1/suse/src # du -sk . 1808706 . # rm *.src.rpm 3) I backup the descr directory # cd /net/lin_suse8.1/suse/setup/ # mv descr descr.orig # mkdir descr # cd descr.orig # cp -a . ../descr 4) I generate new package files # cd /net/lin_suse8.1/suse # /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/create_package_descr \ -d /net/lin_suse8.1/suse -l english -l german using settings: datadirs: /net/lin_suse8.1/suse languages: english,german output dir: ./setup/descr/ is not a directory: ignoring extra_provides: file /usr/share/autoinstall/EXTRA_PROV not found! .............................[...]... done processed 2844 packages now recoding to UTF-8: packages packages.DU packages.en packages.de Regards CS -- Christian Stoltze Computer Science, University of Constance (Lake Constance/SW-Germany) Email: Christian.Stoltze(a)uni-konstanz.de Voice: +49 (0)7531 88-4448 Fax: +49 (0)7531 88-3577

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Edit a file while or after the installation
by Prengel, Ralf 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

I've to insert several entries after an installation in the crontab file. What s the best way to solve this problem? Thanks Ralf Prengel

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