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List:       opensuse-autoinstall
Subject:    Antw: Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] autoyast named by mac-adress
From:       "Detlev Rolf" <Rolf () citeq ! de>
Date:       2012-09-26 13:05:42
Message-ID: 506319C60200000500263090 () nx016 ! stadt-muenster ! de
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Hi Thomas,

thanks for you answer.

It would be great if this feature will be reestablished again and if there is a \
workaround to use this feature with SLES11.2.

Thanks in advance,

Detlev

> > > Thomas Fehr <fehr@suse.de> schrieb am 26.09.2012 um 14:30:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 26, Detlev Rolf wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm trying to install our OES2 SP1 /SLES11 SP1 -Server via autoyast, booting 
> with minicd.
> > 
> > Everything works fine, but I have a problem with the naming of the 
> autoinstallation-file.
> > I saved the file on a server on an http and nfs-share.
> > I wrote the path to the file in the autoyast=-parameter of the isolinux.cfg 
> on the minicd (I tried it with http and nfs).
> > 
> > It works if I 
> > - add the correct filename to the path
> > - rename the autoinst.xml to "default"
> > - rename the autoinst.xml to hexadecimal naming of the ip-adress.
> > 
> > But it doesn't work if I rename the file like the MAC-address of the server 
> as described in 
> http://doc.opensuse.org/products/draft/SLES/SLES-deployment_sd_draft/cha.dep 
> loyment.autoinst.html
> > 
> > When I look with wireshark, I can see that the installation doesn't search 
> for a file named as the MAC-address, only IP-address or "default" is searched 
> for.
> > 
> > Is this a bug or do I have to pass any other parameters to the isolinux.cfg
> 
> Unfortunately this feature seems currently not to work any more.
> I had a quick look at the autoyast code, this was not changed recently.
> 
> Autoyast relies on an entry in /etc/install.inf (written by linuxrc) 
> with key "HWAddr" to determine MAC address. Unfortunately this key seems
> not to exist any more (I checked SLES11 SP1, SP2 and openSuSE 12.2).
> I informed maintainer of linuxrc code, he will check and fix.
> Maybe there is a workaround to make linuxrc write this key, if yes I 
> will tell here.
> 
> Bye, 
> 	Thomas Fehr

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