[sles-beta] Installation with SMT

[Josef Reidinger]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:23:40 +0000
"Datacenter/DFS" <Datacenter at dfs.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> > <This does not seem to work (perhaps a bug?). The items in the
> > <networking/> section are ignored in YaST's early stage.
> > <
> > <The network settings also do not work after the installation is
> > finished but that's another story.
> > <The problem seems to be that systemd does not start wicked by
> > default. <I do not know whether wicked and system are also used in
> > YaST's early stage.
> > 
> > Yes, you are right. This is a bug which has been fixed in
> > yast2-network today:
> > 
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Tue Jun 24 10:00:47 CEST 2014 - schubi at suse.de
> > 
> > - bnc#883718
> >    Taking wicked as default in autoyast installation.
> > - 3.1.67
> 
> I would have tried to tell autoyast to use wicked but I could not
> find the autoyast.xml option in any docu. I assume it is the same
> option that chose between "ifup/ifdown" and "network manager" in
> sles11. Is there a way to configure "use wicked" this in autoyast.xml
> - Otherwise I'll have to wait until beta10 ...
> 
> Did you also assure that the network is configured in early stage
> before registration? And did you assure that the proxy settings are
> configured in early stage before registration?
> 
> 
> > So, I fear that the registration cannot work at all without network.
> 
> Luckily when installing manually and configuring the network in the
> early stage, networking works. Yet I cannot enter a local SMT
> manually.

It is possible with boot parameter. Just when DVD came up and you
choose installation write to parameter line (similar like you specify
e.g. autoyast profile): regurl=http://<mysmt>



Josef

> 
> 
> Greetings,
> Ronny
> 
> > 
> > Greetings
> > Stefan