From: Sanchez, Francisco J. (Francisco.Sanchez_at_unisys.com)
Date: Tue Nov 08 2005 - 02:29:23 CET
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:29:23 -0800 Message-ID: <2C397194BC4D734E93AB404B371600F7358BD8@USMV-EXCH2.na.uis.unisys.com> From: "Sanchez, Francisco J." <Francisco.Sanchez@unisys.com> Subject: [suse-sles-e] RE: [suse-autoinstall] AutoYaST SP2 weirdnes...
... some more troubleshooting:
i put my repository into a tarball, managed to get the tar.gz over to
the w2k serve, and verified that the contents were the same as those on
my linux machine, bit-for-bit, using MD5sum.exe. i unzipped/untarred
the file, and put the contents in <install_dir>, but still was not able
to use this repository. it failed at the same place as before, but with
a slightly more detailed error message:
"Cannot read media description for /. Packages from this media cannot
be installed."
and
"Cannot read media description for /yast/core9. Packages from this
media cannot be installed."
so, i ran create_package_descr -x ./setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV on my linux
machine, within the windows share where i untarred the installation
tree. it only found 226 packages (as opposed to 1770 when used within
the "golden" repository), and the installation aborted the same as
before.
i don't have time to troubleshoot this immediately, but am posting just
in case someone has an idea before i get back to the office on
wednesday. Thanks for any help!!!
--fjs--
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sanchez, Francisco J. [mailto:Francisco.Sanchez@unisys.com]
> Sent: Monday, 07 November, 2005 16:25
> To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com
> Cc: suse-sles-e@suse.com
> Subject: [suse-autoinstall] AutoYaST SP2 weirdnes...
>
> Hello,
> I have just created a SLES9-SP2 installation source manually
> for use as an http repository for automated installations.
> In order to create the installation repository, i created an
> installation dir (/install), mounted the necessary ISOs
> (sles9cd1, core9cd{1,2}, and sles9sp2cd{1,2}), and then used
>
> rsync -auvvP /path/to/iso /install
>
> to get all the necessary files into the repository. I then ran
>
> create_package_descr -x ./setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV
>
> from within the /install/suse directory in order to update
> the pacakge descritptions. Finally, i pointed to this
> directory within Yast, and used the "Autoinstallation" module
> to create an autoinst.xml file within /install/profiles/.
>
> to test the installation, i made the repository available via
> apache, booted with a custom SP2-CD1 cd, and pointed the
> network installation
> (http) to my repository. i used the following linuxrc.config:
>
> KernelPCMCIA: 1
> UseUSBSCSI: 1
> Product: SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 SP2
> UpdateDir: /linux/suse/i386-sles9
> MemLoadImage: 163840
> MinMemory: 256
> MemYaST: 64000
> MemYaSTText: 64000
> Language: english
> Display: Color
> Keytable: us
> Install: http://
> DHCP: 1
> HostIP:
> Netmask: 255.255.255.0
> Server: <ip_addr>
> Serverdir: /install/
> Netdevice: eth0
> insmod: 3c59x
> insmod: mii
> insmod: e100
> insmod: e1000
> Textmode: 1
> AutoYast: http://
>
> the installation worked just as i had hoped.
>
> Now, the problem begins...
> I need to have this repository available via IIS from a
> windows 2000 server machine (not my choice, i am controlled
> by the paycheck-makers).
> So, i mounted the windows directory that is going to host the
> repository with samba, and then used rsync -auvvP to copy the
> repository to this windows share.
>
> when i boot with the same cd (with a modified linuxrc.config
> to point the network installation to the windows web server),
> my installation fails. The installation begins fine, finds
> the control.xml and my autoinst.xml, but when it gets to the
> "Configure Software selections" it fails with the following
> error message
>
> "Could not set base selection: default"
>
> followed by
>
> "Error while configuring software selections. Try again."
>
> fwiw, i also reran YaST and pointed the installation to the
> mounted windows share, recreated the autoinst.xml, and saved
> it within <windows_share_install>/profiles/, but that did not
> work either. i also tried to using the option from with YaST
> to see the repository as a windows share, but that also fails.
>
> I have searched high and low regarding these error messages,
> but have found nothing. Does anyone have any ideas that
> could help me out?
> THANK YOU!!!
>
> --fjs--
>
>
> --
> Francisco J. Sanchez
> UNISYS // ESP: Preload Team
>
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