Mark, After adding autoyast to the parmfile. I no longer get the DHCP prompt question. And the install fails with DHCP failing.
The parmfile has grown from the 1 line to the following 10 lines in my review of the appendix A of sles_Zseries.pdf. I do not fine a parmfile specification to turn off DHCP. I found everything else that is listed below. Original 1 line ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram1 ro init=/linuxrc TERM=dumb Now the parmfile has: ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram1 ro init=/linuxrc TERM=dumb instnetdev=ctc pointopoint=199.42.190.45 hostip=199.42.190.3 readchannel=0.0.0e00 writechannel=0.0.0e01 ctcprotocol=0 install=ftp://199.42.190.8/ autoyast=http://199.42.190.48/suse/autoinst.xml UseSSH=1 SSHPassword=xxxx About cookbooks you asked in the other question thread. I am using sles_Zseries.pdf and the sles_admin. I have performed many searches and reviewed much material. If you are aware of a cookbook for dummies, please share and I am there. If I had OSA and graphic connection things would be better. As I am using the text yast and CTCs as you know. Sincerely Paul -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 3:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: #autoinst how to >>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:21 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Sienicki, Paul K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > I downloaded the autoinst.SP2.zip > And then extracted the gen.template and the nccreg.diff. > Searched the manuals and how to do links and I am left cold, I think. Links? What kind of links, and why? > I presumed that I load the information up onto the starter system > NOVSTART and do yast autoyast to generate the autoinst.xml from the > template and diff. No. The gen.template file is a bash script. You execute it, and answer the questions. When you're happy with all the answers you've given, it will write out a file named autoinst.xml. -snip- > But where do I put the nccreg.diff file go? If you want your system to be automatically registered, you manually edit that file to put in the values for your NCC email address, your SLES registration code, and whether you want the optional hardware and software data sent to NCC. Then, you run the patch command to apply that diff against gen.template. > Also after generation how to I get the object installation system > CLIENT (which is really a server) to pickup the autoinst.xml back on NOVSTART? You have to put the generated autoinst.xml file somewhere that is accessible from the network. Then, in your PARMFILE, you put in a parameter to point to it: autoyast=http://ip.address/path/to/autoinst.xml or ftp:// or nfs:// or smb:// In your case, it will be most convenient to put that in /srv/repository, since you don't have access to the outside network. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
