Autoyast

Hello all,
Im new you suse linux but not linux as a whole. I am trying to use autoyast to install SLED 11 sp3. I have set up a thumb drive with grub2 and i am able to pass in my paraleter to the linux kernel

linux /boot/linux root=(hd0,msdos1) textmode=1 autoyast=file://autoinst.xml install=hd://sda1/boot/SLED-11-SP3-i586/
initrd /boot/initrd
boot

the installation media mounts and goes through its normal HW probe but then throws the following error

The xml parser reported an error while parsing the autoyast profile. the error is a directoryDocument is empty
start tag expected, ‘<’ not found.

How do I get the profile to load to autoinstall the os?
any help would be greatly appreciated.

eharrison Wrote in message:
[color=blue]

Im new you suse linux but not linux as a whole. I am trying to use
autoyast to install SLED 11 sp3. I have set up a thumb drive with grub2
and i am able to pass in my paraleter to the linux kernel

linux /boot/linux root=(hd0,msdos1) textmode=1
autoyast=file://autoinst.xml install=hd://sda1/boot/SLED-11-SP3-i586/
initrd /boot/initrd
boot

the installation media mounts and goes through its normal HW probe but
then throws the following error

The xml parser reported an error while parsing the autoyast profile.
the error is a directoryDocument is empty
start tag expected, ‘<’ not found.

How do I get the profile to load to autoinstall the os?
any help would be greatly appreciated.[/color]

Try with “autoyast=file:///autoinst.xml …” i.e. with three
forward slash (/) characters.

HTH.

Simon Flood
SUSE Knowledge Partner

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[QUOTE=smflood;37521]eharrison Wrote in message:
[color=blue]

Im new you suse linux but not linux as a whole. I am trying to use
autoyast to install SLED 11 sp3. I have set up a thumb drive with grub2
and i am able to pass in my paraleter to the linux kernel

linux /boot/linux root=(hd0,msdos1) textmode=1
autoyast=file://autoinst.xml install=hd://sda1/boot/SLED-11-SP3-i586/
initrd /boot/initrd
boot

the installation media mounts and goes through its normal HW probe but
then throws the following error

The xml parser reported an error while parsing the autoyast profile.
the error is a directoryDocument is empty
start tag expected, ‘<’ not found.

How do I get the profile to load to autoinstall the os?
any help would be greatly appreciated.[/color]

Try with “autoyast=file:///autoinst.xml …” i.e. with three
forward slash (/) characters.

HTH.

Simon Flood
SUSE Knowledge Partner

----Android NewsGroup Reader----
http://usenet.sinaapp.com/[/QUOTE]

thanks for the reply. Adding the additional / produced the following error

An error Occured while fetching the profile:
reading file on /var/adm/mount//autoinst.xml failed
reading file on /autoinst.xml failed
reading a file on CD failed. Path : /tmp/yast2-03322-4hz1gz/tmp_mount//autoinst.xml.

I looks like it is trying a couple of directories to find the xml file but no luck. Any thoughts?

When you’re in the system (after seeing the error) do you see the path
where that file is? Maybe it has a difference device which you can pass
in, but right now it seems you and Grub disagree on how to reach the USB
stick once running the installer.

Seeing the output from the ‘mount’ command would be a fair starting point,
in my opinion.


Good luck.

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On 19/04/17 21:34, eharrison wrote:
[color=blue]

thanks for the reply. Adding the additional / produced the following
error

An error Occured while fetching the profile:
reading file on /var/adm/mount//autoinst.xml failed
reading file on /autoinst.xml failed
reading a file on CD failed. Path :
/tmp/yast2-03322-4hz1gz/tmp_mount//autoinst.xml.

I looks like it is trying a couple of directories to find the xml file
but no luck. Any thoughts?[/color]

How did you create the autoinst.xml file? Can you perhaps post the
contents, or at least the first few lines (wrapped in [CODE] tags)?

HTH.

Simon
SUSE Knowledge Partner


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[QUOTE=smflood;37533]On 19/04/17 21:34, eharrison wrote:
[color=blue]

thanks for the reply. Adding the additional / produced the following
error

An error Occured while fetching the profile:
reading file on /var/adm/mount//autoinst.xml failed
reading file on /autoinst.xml failed
reading a file on CD failed. Path :
/tmp/yast2-03322-4hz1gz/tmp_mount//autoinst.xml.

I looks like it is trying a couple of directories to find the xml file
but no luck. Any thoughts?[/color]

How did you create the autoinst.xml file? Can you perhaps post the
contents, or at least the first few lines (wrapped in [CODE] tags)?

HTH.

Simon
SUSE Knowledge Partner


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------------------------------------------------------------------------[/QUOTE]
I create the autoinst.xml from the command line of a SUSE linux machine
yast2 clone_system
here is the xml file. i did run it through xmllint and no errors were returned.

[CODE]

<add_on_products config:type=“list”/>



true
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 - 3.0.101-0.8
<generic_mbr>true</generic_mbr>
(hd0,0)/message
<lines_cache_id>4</lines_cache_id>
2

<initrd_modules config:type=“list”>
<initrd_module>
ahci
</initrd_module>
</initrd_modules>
<loader_type>grub</loader_type>


resume=/dev/sda2 splash=silent ksdevice=bootif text showopts
(hd0,0)/vmlinuz-3.0.101-0.8-pae
1
(hd0,0)/initrd-3.0.101-0.8-pae
<lines_cache_id>0</lines_cache_id>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 - 3.0.101-0.8
<original_name>linux</original_name>
image


showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe
(hd0,0)/vmlinuz-3.0.101-0.8-pae
(hd0,0)/initrd-3.0.101-0.8-pae
<lines_cache_id>1</lines_cache_id>
Failsafe – SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 - 3.0.101-0.8
<original_name>failsafe</original_name>
image


resume=/dev/sda2 splash=silent ksdevice=bootif text showopts
(hd0,0)/vmlinuz-3.0.76-0.11-pae
(hd0,0)/initrd-3.0.76-0.11-pae
<lines_cache_id>2</lines_cache_id>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 - 3.0.76-0.11
<original_name>linux</original_name>
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
image
0x314


showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe
(hd0,0)/vmlinuz-3.0.76-0.11-pae
(hd0,0)/initrd-3.0.76-0.11-pae
<lines_cache_id>3</lines_cache_id>
Failsafe – SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 - 3.0.76-0.11
<original_name>failsafe</original_name>
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
image
0x314



<deploy_image>
<image_installation config:type=“boolean”>false</image_installation>
</deploy_image>

<FW_ALLOW_FW_BROADCAST_DMZ>no</FW_ALLOW_FW_BROADCAST_DMZ>
<FW_ALLOW_FW_BROADCAST_EXT>no</FW_ALLOW_FW_BROADCAST_EXT>
<FW_ALLOW_FW_BROADCAST_INT>no</FW_ALLOW_FW_BROADCAST_INT>
<FW_CONFIGURATIONS_DMZ></FW_CONFIGURATIONS_DMZ>
<FW_CONFIGURATIONS_EXT></FW_CONFIGURATIONS_EXT>
<FW_CONFIGURATIONS_INT></FW_CONFIGURATIONS_INT>
<FW_DEV_DMZ></FW_DEV_DMZ>
<FW_DEV_EXT></FW_DEV_EXT>
<FW_DEV_INT></FW_DEV_INT>
<FW_FORWARD_ALWAYS_INOUT_DEV></FW_FORWARD_ALWAYS_INOUT_DEV>
<FW_FORWARD_MASQ></FW_FORWARD_MASQ>
<FW_IGNORE_FW_BROADCAST_DMZ>no</FW_IGNORE_FW_BROADCAST_DMZ>
<FW_IGNORE_FW_BROADCAST_EXT>yes</FW_IGNORE_FW_BROADCAST_EXT>
<FW_IGNORE_FW_BROADCAST_INT>no</FW_IGNORE_FW_BROADCAST_INT>
<FW_IPSEC_TRUST>no</FW_IPSEC_TRUST>
<FW_LOAD_MODULES>nf_conntrack_netbios_ns</FW_LOAD_MODULES>
<FW_LOG_ACCEPT_ALL>no</FW_LOG_ACCEPT_ALL>
<FW_LOG_ACCEPT_CRIT>yes</FW_LOG_ACCEPT_CRIT>
<FW_LOG_DROP_ALL>no</FW_LOG_DROP_ALL>
<FW_LOG_DROP_CRIT>yes</FW_LOG_DROP_CRIT>
<FW_MASQUERADE>no</FW_MASQUERADE>
<FW_PROTECT_FROM_INT>no</FW_PROTECT_FROM_INT>
<FW_ROUTE>no</FW_ROUTE>
<FW_SERVICES_ACCEPT_DMZ></FW_SERVICES_ACCEPT_DMZ>
<FW_SERVICES_ACCEPT_EXT></FW_SERVICES_ACCEPT_EXT>
<FW_SERVICES_ACCEPT_INT></FW_SERVICES_ACCEPT_INT>
<FW_SERVICES_ACCEPT_RELATED_DMZ></FW_SERVICES_ACCEPT_RELATED_DMZ>
<FW_SERVICES_ACCEPT_RELATED_EXT></FW_SERVICES_ACCEPT_RELATED_EXT>
<FW_SERVICES_ACCEPT_RELATED_INT></FW_SERVICES_ACCEPT_RELATED_INT>
<FW_SERVICES_DMZ_IP></FW_SERVICES_DMZ_IP>
<FW_SERVICES_DMZ_RPC></FW_SERVICES_DMZ_RPC>
<FW_SERVICES_DMZ_TCP></FW_SERVICES_DMZ_TCP>
<FW_SERVICES_DMZ_UDP></FW_SERVICES_DMZ_UDP>
<FW_SERVICES_EXT_IP></FW_SERVICES_EXT_IP>
<FW_SERVICES_EXT_RPC></FW_SERVICES_EXT_RPC>
<FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP></FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP>
<FW_SERVICES_EXT_UDP></FW_SERVICES_EXT_UDP>
<FW_SERVICES_INT_IP></FW_SERVICES_INT_IP>
<FW_SERVICES_INT_RPC></FW_SERVICES_INT_RPC>
<FW_SERVICES_INT_TCP></FW_SERVICES_INT_TCP>
<FW_SERVICES_INT_UDP></FW_SERVICES_INT_UDP>
<enable_firewall config:type=“boolean”>false</enable_firewall>
<start_firewall config:type=“boolean”>false</start_firewall>




false


none



<accept_file_without_checksum config:type=“boolean”>true</accept_file_without_checksum>
<accept_non_trusted_gpg_key config:type=“boolean”>true</accept_non_trusted_gpg_key>
<accept_unknown_gpg_key config:type=“boolean”>true</accept_unknown_gpg_key>
<accept_unsigned_file config:type=“boolean”>true</accept_unsigned_file>
<accept_verification_failed config:type=“boolean”>false</accept_verification_failed>
<import_gpg_key config:type=“boolean”>true</import_gpg_key>





true
1001
<group_password>x</group_password>
puppet
puppet


true
100
<group_password>x</group_password>
users



true
1000
<group_password>x</group_password>
pos
pos


true
19
<group_password>x</group_password>
floppy



true
1
<group_password>x</group_password>
bin
daemon


true
41
<group_password>x</group_password>
xok



true
65533
<group_password>x</group_password>
nobody



true
43
<group_password>x</group_password>
modem



true
5
<group_password>x</group_password>
tty



true
7
<group_password>x</group_password>
lp



true
104
<group_password>!</group_password>
uuidd



true
51
<group_password>!</group_password>
postfix



true
65534
<group_password>x</group_password>
nogroup
nobody


true
101
<group_password>!</group_password>
messagebus



true
59
<group_password>!</group_password>
maildrop



true
33
<group_password>x</group_password>
video



true
3
<group_password>x</group_password>
sys



true
15
<group_password>x</group_password>
shadow



true
20
<group_password>x</group_password>
cdrom



true
21
<group_password>x</group_password>
console



true
42
<group_password>x</group_password>
trusted



true
102
<group_password>!</group_password>
haldaemon



true
16
<group_password>x</group_password>
dialout



true
105
<group_password>!</group_password>
polkituser



true
10
<group_password>x</group_password>
wheel



true
107
<group_password>!</group_password>
pulse



true
8
<group_password>x</group_password>
www



true
40
<group_password>x</group_password>
games



true
6
<group_password>x</group_password>
disk



true
17
<group_password>x</group_password>
audio
pulse


true
49
<group_password>x</group_password>
ftp



true
109
<group_password>!</group_password>
suse-ncc



true
103
<group_password>!</group_password>
tape



true
25
<group_password>!</group_password>
at



true
9
<group_password>x</group_password>
kmem



true
32
<group_password>x</group_password>
public



true
12
<group_password>x</group_password>
mail



true
0
<group_password>x</group_password>
root



true
2
<group_password>x</group_password>
daemon



true
106
<group_password>!</group_password>
ntp



true
14
<group_password>x</group_password>
uucp



true
108
<group_password>!</group_password>
pulse-access



true
62
<group_password>x</group_password>
man



true
22
<group_password>x</group_password>
utmp



true
13
<group_password>x</group_password>
news



true
65
<group_password>!</group_password>
sshd





<hosts_entry>
<host_address>10.50.48.66</host_address>

STORE_SERVER
puppet

</hosts_entry>
<hosts_entry>
<host_address>127.0.0.1</host_address>

localhost

</hosts_entry>
<hosts_entry>
<host_address>127.0.0.2</host_address>


</hosts_entry>
<hosts_entry>
<host_address>::1</host_address>

localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback

</hosts_entry>
<hosts_entry>
<host_address>fe00::0</host_address>

ipv6-localnet

</hosts_entry>
<hosts_entry>
<host_address>ff00::0</host_address>

ipv6-mcastprefix

</hosts_entry>
<hosts_entry>
<host_address>ff02::1</host_address>

ipv6-allnodes

</hosts_entry>
<hosts_entry>
<host_address>ff02::2</host_address>

ipv6-allrouters

</hosts_entry>
<hosts_entry>
<host_address>ff02::3</host_address>

ipv6-allhosts

</hosts_entry>



english-us


en_US
en_US

<login_settings/>

<dhcp_options>
<dhclient_client_id></dhclient_client_id>
<dhclient_hostname_option>AUTO</dhclient_hostname_option>
</dhcp_options>

<dhcp_hostname config:type=“boolean”>true</dhcp_hostname>
00802.retailoperations.urbanoutfitters.com
<resolv_conf_policy>auto</resolv_conf_policy>
<write_hostname config:type=“boolean”>true</write_hostname>



dhcp
eth0
Intel Ethernet controller
auto
no




127.0.0.2
255.0.0.0
8


127.255.255.255
lo
no
127.0.0.1
255.0.0.0
127.0.0.0
8
auto
no


true

<ip_forward config:type=“boolean”>false</ip_forward>



<ntp_policy>auto</ntp_policy>


10.1.1.30
################################################################################

/etc/ntp.conf

Sample NTP configuration file.

See package ‘ntp-doc’ for documentation, Mini-HOWTO and FAQ.

Copyright (c) 1998 S.u.S.E. GmbH Fuerth, Germany.

Author: Michael Andres, ma@suse.de

Michael Skibbe, mskibbe@suse.de

################################################################################

Radio and modem clocks by convention have addresses in the

form 127.127.t.u, where t is the clock type and u is a unit

number in the range 0-3.

Most of these clocks require support in the form of a

serial port or special bus peripheral. The particular

device is normally specified by adding a soft link

/dev/device-u to the particular hardware device involved,

where u correspond to the unit number above.

Generic DCF77 clock on serial port (Conrad DCF77)

Address: 127.127.8.u

Serial Port: /dev/refclock-u

(create soft link /dev/refclock-0 to the particular ttyS?)

server 127.127.8.0 mode 5 prefer

Undisciplined Local Clock. This is a fake driver intended for backup

and when no outside source of synchronized time is available.

server 10.1.1.31 server /var/lib/ntp/drift/ntp.drift ## ## Add external Servers using ## # rcntp addserver ##

Miscellaneous stuff

driftfile /var/log/ntp # path for drift file logfile /etc/ntp.keys # alternate log file # logconfig =syncstatus + sysevents # logconfig =all

statsdir /tmp/ # directory for statistics files

filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable

filegen loopstats file loopstats type day enable

filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable

Authentication stuff

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$2a$10$R7MrV2MxmWG0nZcRszMFzO2wTP3LA2PiPdoH0HqrXT1wkE0E4lO3m root true Mailer daemon 12 /var/spool/clientmqueue /bin/false 8 * mail true Daemon 2 /sbin /bin/bash 2 * daemon true NTP daemon 106 /var/lib/ntp 99999 0 7 /bin/false 74 * ntp true Unix-to-Unix CoPy system 14 /etc/uucp /bin/bash 10 * uucp true User for D-Bus 101 /var/run/dbus 0 7 /bin/false 100 * messagebus true User for haldaemon 102 /var/run/hald 0 7 /bin/false 101 * haldaemon true WWW daemon apache 8 /var/lib/wwwrun /bin/false 30 * wwwrun true Manual pages viewer 62 /var/cache/man /bin/bash 13 * man true PolicyKit 105 /var/run/PolicyKit 99999 0 7 /bin/false 104 * polkituser true News system 13 /etc/news /bin/bash 9 * news SSH daemon 65 /var/lib/sshd /bin/false 71 sshd true PulseAudio daemon 107 /var/lib/pulseaudio 99999 0 7 /bin/false 105 * pulse 24 true 94 75 31 50 Unknown Unknown 800x600 (SVGA) [/CODE]

I really just looks like im not passing the correct location of the autoinst.xml to the linux kernel. is there any way for me to find it on the fly?

right, So the output from the mount command shows the autoinst file on the root of (hd0, msdos1)

so here something that is interesting. when i use autoyast=file:/// i get an error saying that autoyast cant find the file.