On Friday 19 May 2006 02:10, Per Jessen wrote:
I'm trying to do an install on a headless machine (a node in a cluster), and I'm having trouble figuring out what I do when stage 1 is complete. Stage 1 works just fine - I boot the installation system over the network, then ssh into the box and run yast. The installation then completes, and the machine reboots. When I ssh into it again, I can tell some Yast.Second-Stage thingie is running, but how do I get to "talk" to it to continue the second stage?
Hi Per, I'll toss an idea your way... they're cheap! ;-) I don't know if it's realistic, but here it is: If you could log into a second and third console during stage 1... even using something like screen... you could 'park' #3 in the directory where YaST writes the stage 2 boot script, leave #2 available for ad hoc commands while running YaST, as before, in #1. Once the stage 2 boot script has been written, you quickly switch to #2, suspend YaST, switch back to #3 and edit the script in such a way as to launch YaST in a session that you can log into remotely. Once the script is updated, you switch back to #2 to resume YaST and allow it to reboot. Remember, it's just a concept... I have no way of knowing how realistic it is. regards, Carl