the file:///pathtofile seems to work really well if you imbed the control file in the initrd. Unzip initrd, mount it as a loop device, copy the control file to the right path, umount the initrd, zip it back up and make a new CD. Todd -----Original Message----- From: Dax Kelson [mailto:dax@gurulabs.com] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 11:37 AM To: boopathy krishnamoorthy Cc: autoinstall Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Using autoyast=file:// with CDROM based file, broken? On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 05:52 +0100, boopathy krishnamoorthy wrote:
You have to use the autoyast in isolinux.cfg as follows. autoyast=file:///d8. If d8 is present in the "installroot" directory itself. here "installroot" denotes the base directory of CD or DVD.
I tried with three slashes, eg, file:///d8 and I'm still getting the error. Is this supposed to work? I'm trying to do a NFS based autoyast install, but I'm booting off a CDROM I created that only contains the 5 files: isolinux.bin isolinux.cfg linux initrd d8 <--- my autoyast control file In my isolinux.cfg I have: label sl93ay kernel linux append initrd=initrd install=nfs://10.100.0.254/export/netinstall/SL9.3 ip=10.100.0.8 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=10.100.0.254 nameserver=10.100.0.254 textmode=1 autoyast=file:///d8 I still get an error saying it can't read the file. If I place the autoyast file on a NFS server and change the autoyast= like to point to it, it installs OK. So I know the syntax is valid inside the "d8" file. Dax Kelson Guru Labs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help@suse.com