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Subject:    Re: [suse-autoinstall] Antwort: Re: WG: [suse-autoinstall] Antwort:
From:       Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail () bio ! ifi ! lmu ! de>
Date:       2004-04-27 15:11:03
Message-ID: 408E7807.4090708 () bio ! ifi ! lmu ! de
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Manuel.Laesser@telekurs.com wrote:
> Hello Frank
> Thank you for your answer. Just some more questions. What is the exact 
> name of this file? Where do I have to put it? I only found a module.config 
> file in /modules of the unpacked initrd, but this doesn't seem to be the 
> file you are talking about.

No, I'm talking about the "configuration file" that feeds information
to linuxrc. Look at chapter 7.3.1 from the Autoyast Doku for SuSE 9.0.
This file is named "info" and you can put it on a floppy if you boot
from a normal cdrom e.g., or if you plan to install everything via
network, e.g. using pxe like we do it, you can put it into the intird
that will be transfered with pxe.

We use a pxelinux.cfg (see chapter 5 of the docu) with


label linux
   kernel vmlinuz.install
   append initrd=initrd rw ramdisk_size=65536 apm=power-off

and for the "initrd" in the tftpboot directory, we unpacked the initrd
from the SuSE CD and put out own "info" file into the root of the initrd
before packing it again.

The info file looks like this:


# Initial Info file to boot over network.

######################################################
# general stuff
Language:       de_DE
Display:        color
Keytable:       us

###############################################
# which network device do we use?
Netdevice:              eth0

###############################################
# where do we install from
install:        nfs://<our ip hidde>/rpm-export/i586/9.0/SuSE/
autoyast:       nfs://<our ip hidden>/rpm-export/autoyast/9.0/

###############################################
# remote control
VNC:            1
VNCPassword:    <whatever we use there ;-)>

###############################################
# which modules do we need

# SCSI Controllers
insmod scsi_mod
insmod sd_mod
insmod aic7xxx
insmod aic79xx
insmod gdth
insmod qla1280
# IBM serveRaid-Controller for xSeries
insmod ips

# network controller at last so that link stays up until
# the bootp request is made.
insmod 3c90x
insmod e1000
insmod bcm5700

# insmod bcm5700 line_speed=100 auto_speed=0 full_duplex=1

# END FILE


Have fun :-)
cu,
Frank

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