I understand this may not be an autoinstall program, but I thought some of you may have seen this.
I have read the documentation in http://www.suse.com/~nashif/autoinstall and created a floppy which
contains an autoinst.xml and info file. I put the first SLES 8 CD in the CDROM and entered autoyast=floppy when
the system came up. I put the floppy in the floppy drive and have no problem setting up the machine at home using NFS.
However, I was not able to repeat the same setup at work. For some reasons, the machine kept on reporting cannot
see info file and tried to start manual install. I tried different settings on autoinst.xml and even use the same settings
I have at home (with the IP address updated to reflect the IP address at work), but without success.
My home machine is Compaq but my machine at work is Dell PowerEdge 1650. Will this be a problem?
( I have tested including aacraid aic7xxx usb-storage in the kernel_parameter of the autoinst.xml file and I have also tested removing the CDATA portion from the xml file)
It failed after "Searching for the infofile", it returned a manual install screen.
When I attemtped to do a manual install, it was obvious that the system already knew the IP of the machine
and the server, it even knew the serverdir of the software.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE profile SYSTEM "/usr/share/YaST2/include/autoinstall/profile.dtd">
<profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns">
<configure>
<networking>
<dns>
false
false
<domain></domain>
<hostname></hostname>
<nameservers config:type="list"/>
<searchlist config:type="list"/>
</dns>
<interfaces config:type="list">
<interface>
<bootproto>static</bootproto>
<broadcast>172.20.212.255</broadcast>
<device>eth0</device>
<ipaddr>172.20.212.51</ipaddr>
<module></module>
<netmask>255.255.255.0</netmask>
<network>172.20.212.0</network>
<options></options>
<startmode>onboot</startmode>
<wireless>no</wireless>
</interface>
</interfaces>
<routing>
false
<routes config:type="list">
<route>
<destination>default</destination>
<device>-</device>
<gateway>172.20.212.1</gateway>
<netmask>-</netmask>
</route>
</routes>
</routing>
</networking>
<users config:type="list">
<user>
<encrypted config:type="boolean">true</encrypted>
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<username>root</username>
</user>
<user>
<encrypted config:type="boolean">true</encrypted>
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<username>acheng</username>
</user>
</users>
</configure>
<install>
<bootloader>
<activate config:type="boolean">false</activate>
false
<linear config:type="boolean">false</linear>
<location>mbr</location>
</bootloader>
<general>
<clock>
<hwclock>localtime</hwclock>
<timezone>US/Eastern</timezone>
</clock>
<keyboard>
<keymap>english-us</keymap>
</keyboard>
<language>en_US</language>
<mode>
<confirm config:type="boolean">false</confirm>
<forceboot config:type="boolean">false</forceboot>
false
<reboot config:type="boolean">false</reboot>
</mode>
<mouse>
<id>00_ps2</id>
</mouse>
</general>
<software>
<addons config:type="list">
<addon>YaST2_modules</addon>
<addon>LSB</addon>
<addon>sles_admin</addon>
<addon>Basis-Devel</addon>
<addon>X11</addon>
</addons>
<base></base>
<packages config:type="list"/>
</software>
<init>
<![CDATA[
#
#start_linuxrc_conf
#
install nfs://172.20.212.41/usr/local/SuSE/current
ip: 172.20.212.51
netmask: 255.255.255.0
gateway: 172.20.212.1
server: 172.20.212.41
serverdir: /usr/local/SuSE/current
netdevice: eth0
#
#end_linuxrc_conf
]]>
</init>
</install>
</profile>
thanks
anna
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