Okay, there is no problem (other than with my typing). I must have been consistantly mistyping things, as after a relaxing weekend, it works as advertised, with just the autoyast & install command line parameters needed. --Hal Hal Wine wrote, around 01/09/2004 09:32 AM:
I'm still looking for an answer to my earlier question. Rephrased, why doesn't the following work: - boot from SLES8 CD 1 - choose "Installation" (or "Manual Installation") - add boot options of (all one line of course): autoyast=nfs://ipaddr/path/profiles/fu.xml install=nfs://ipaddr/path/current
Failure message is can't find UL cd1, but it's mounted and a manual nfs install from same location works.
Any help appreciated! Thanks! --Hal
Hal Wine wrote, around 01/07/2004 06:53 AM:
Folks,
Somehow, I'm not getting something about the command line arguements for an automatic install using a profile on an NFS server.
I have the server set up, and I boot from the first SLES 8 cd. When I do a manual install install, everything works correctly, and all the "cds" are found on the NFS server.
I then used "yast2 autoyast" to clone the resulting system config, then edited that to reflect the NFS settings. I copied the result to the NFS server.
When I try to use this profile, again when booting from the first SLES 8 cd, it can't find the 2nd cd (United Linux cd1) and prompts for it (same dialog box as cd-switch). ctrl-alt-f2 shows the correct spot on the NFS server mounted.
As I read the docs, it seemed the only thing I needed to specify was the autoyast profile locations (which it finds). I've also tried adding the install=, server=, & serverdir= options with no luck.
I saw a message related to DHCP setup that referenced an "install=nfs" arguement, and have tried that.
Any suggestions? (I feel like it must be something obvious that I just am missing.)
Thanks! --Hal