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List:       suse-autoinstall
Subject:    [suse-autoinstall] unable to see info file
From:       anna cheng <anna_cheng11 () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2004-04-13 20:31:15
Message-ID: 20040413203115.95114.qmail () web61310 ! mail ! yahoo ! com
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I understand this may not be an autoinstall program, but I thought some of you may \
have seen this.  
I have read the documentation in http://www.suse.com/~nashif/autoinstall and created \
a floppy which contains an autoinst.xml and info file. I put the first SLES 8 CD in \
the CDROM and entered autoyast=floppy when the system came up. I put the floppy in \
the floppy drive and have no problem setting up the machine at home using NFS. \
However, I was not able to repeat the same setup at work. For some reasons, the \
machine kept on reporting cannot see info file and tried to start manual install. I \
tried different settings on autoinst.xml and even use the same settings  I have at \
home (with the IP address updated to reflect the IP address at work), but without \
success. My home machine is Compaq but my machine at work is Dell PowerEdge 1650. \
Will this be a problem? ( I have tested including aacraid aic7xxx usb-storage in the \
kernel_parameter of the autoinst.xml file and I have also tested removing the CDATA \
portion from the xml file)  
It failed after "Searching for  the infofile", it returned a manual install screen.
When I attemtped to do a manual install, it was obvious that the system already knew \
the IP of the machine and the server, it even knew the serverdir of the software. 
 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE profile SYSTEM "/usr/share/YaST2/include/autoinstall/profile.dtd">
<profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" \
xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns">  <configure>
    <networking>
      <dns>
        <dhcp_hostname config:type="boolean">false</dhcp_hostname>
        <dhcp_resolv config:type="boolean">false</dhcp_resolv>
        <domain></domain>
        <hostname></hostname>
        <nameservers config:type="list"/>
        <searchlist config:type="list"/>
      </dns>
      <interfaces config:type="list">
        <interface>
          <bootproto>static</bootproto>
          <broadcast>172.20.212.255</broadcast>
          <device>eth0</device>
          <ipaddr>172.20.212.51</ipaddr>
          <module></module>
          <netmask>255.255.255.0</netmask>
          <network>172.20.212.0</network>
          <options></options>
          <remote_ipaddr></remote_ipaddr>
          <startmode>onboot</startmode>
          <wireless>no</wireless>
        </interface>
      </interfaces>
      <routing>
        <ip_forward config:type="boolean">false</ip_forward>
        <routes config:type="list">
          <route>
            <destination>default</destination>
            <device>-</device>
            <gateway>172.20.212.1</gateway>
         <netmask>-</netmask>
          </route>
        </routes>
      </routing>
    </networking>
    <users config:type="list">
      <user>
        <encrypted config:type="boolean">true</encrypted>
        <user_password>3ssF48KCbJon2</user_password>
        <username>root</username>
      </user>
      <user>
        <encrypted config:type="boolean">true</encrypted>
        <user_password>wxEGdL44Qe4IY</user_password>
        <username>acheng</username>
      </user>
    </users>
  </configure>
  <install>
    <bootloader>
      <activate config:type="boolean">false</activate>
      <kernel_parameters></kernel_parameters>
      <lba_support config:type="boolean">false</lba_support>
      <linear config:type="boolean">false</linear>
      <location>mbr</location>
    </bootloader>
    <general>
      <clock>
        <hwclock>localtime</hwclock>
        <timezone>US/Eastern</timezone>
      </clock>
      <keyboard>
        <keymap>english-us</keymap>
      </keyboard>
      <language>en_US</language>
      <mode>
        <confirm config:type="boolean">false</confirm>
        <forceboot config:type="boolean">false</forceboot>
        <interactive_boot config:type="boolean">false</interactive_boot>
        <reboot config:type="boolean">false</reboot>
      </mode>
      <mouse>
        <id>00_ps2</id>
      </mouse>
    </general>
    <software>
      <addons config:type="list">
        <addon>YaST2_modules</addon>
        <addon>LSB</addon>
        <addon>sles_admin</addon>
        <addon>Basis-Devel</addon>
        <addon>X11</addon>
      </addons>
      <base></base>
      <packages config:type="list"/>
    </software>
        <init>
        <info_file>
<![CDATA[
#
#start_linuxrc_conf
#
install nfs://172.20.212.41/usr/local/SuSE/current
ip: 172.20.212.51
netmask: 255.255.255.0
gateway: 172.20.212.1
server: 172.20.212.41
serverdir: /usr/local/SuSE/current
netdevice: eth0
#
#end_linuxrc_conf
]]>
        </info_file>
        </init>
  </install>
</profile>


 

 

thanks

anna

		
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