Tim Verhoeven wrote:
On 8/31/05, *Michael T. Halligan*
mailto:michael@halligan.org> wrote: My wife may wake up tomorrow angry at me staying up all-night working on this, but somehow I've got it working thanks to yours & Hans' help.
The good news, is it worked, the bad news, is I'm not sure why.
The steps I've followed since your e-mails :
deleted & rebuilt my install source again booted up witn an info file for the first time (never had done that) ran xmllint on your autoinstall.xml file, opened it up in a manually installed x86_64 server that had just been patched, modified it to fit my environment.
In your previous mail you said you tried to open my xml file with yast and it won't show you any disks. Well, that is "normal" behaviour. Apparently the autoyast GUI does not support SW raid or LVM yet. So you can create the rest of your config using the GUI but the SW Raid and LVM part you will need to add manually. I've read it somewhere in the autoyast docs. But the GUI won't tell you :-(
Tim, Actually, the problem with not seeing the disks was an extra line at the beginning of the file. Removing that made everything you had given me visible!
And, yeah. I have a server installed with software raid, lvm, all through autoinstall.
So the lesson is to just edit the autoyast xml files manually. I've also create them all manually based from templates from other people. And If I can't find something then I first create a test file using the GUI and copy the parts I need. And if that didn't work read the docs again or ask here :-)
Actually, I just think the version of the control file that SLES uses as it's template is buggy. Your version works fine using the Yast gui.. The difference here was night and day. Once I finally had a file that Yast would parse, I went from "pile of servers" to a dozen servers deployed and ready for testing in under an hour (it helps that I'd already built the configuration files).
If you're ever in San Francisco, I owe you both beer!
Thank you.
I'll try to remember :-)
Good luck with it, Tim
Thanks, and I really appreciate it. Michael