If you can boot off the CD and have a DHCP server running then I would
suggest:
Put your auto.xml file on the nfs server
Then boot from CD, in the command line at the bottom of the boot screen
type:
install=nfs://IP/pathtosource autofs=nfs://IP/pathto/xml.file
If you don't have DHCP I think you would just have to add the ip, netmask,
and gateway command options on the command line.
And for your info all the important parts of JDS for autoinstall and
installable rpms think SuSE 8.1
Out of curiosity how many seats are you trying to deploy? Are you just doing
an evaluation of JDS?
Todd
Sun JDS Model Office
-----Original Message-----
From: Monirul Alam [mailto:razu92@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 2:23 AM
To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com
Subject: [suse-autoinstall] Could not write the LILO Boot Sector
Hi,
Actually I am trying to implement Nfs Auto installation with Sun Java
Desktop which is combination of Suse 8.1 and 8.2. The following steps I have
done:
copy all the three CDs to my NFS Server at /jds/install and setting the NFS
server thru exportfs command and it is working properly( cam mount the
/jds/install from other machine in the network)
create boot floppies( 3 - boot, modules1, modules3) and autoinst.xml and
copy autoinst.xml file in all the floppies and laso create info file as iw
was not finding installation media.
Info file is like:
install: nfs://10.55.135.115/jds/install
netdevice:eth0
server:10.55.135.115
serverdir:/jds/install
ip: 10.55.135.251
netmask: 255.255.255.0
gateway: 10.55.135.1
nameserver: 10.55.32.132
autoyast: default
Boot from floppy and provide all the flopies when promted, it went to auto
installation mode but giving error when try to install boot manager " Could
not write the LILO boot sector"
But JDs only have grub not LILO
my bootloader entry ing autoinst.xml file is
<bootloader>
<activate config:type="boolean">false</activate>