Subject Typo: should be SuSE 10.1
OK so fresh off a successful network install of SuSE 10.0, I tried to duplicate my configuration for 10.1. The configuration is a pxe boot with these parameters:
label SuSE-10.1-interactive
kernel /images/SuSE-10.1/vmlinuz
append lang ksdevice=eth0 text devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=16438 install=nfs://fs4/export/os/SuseLinux-10.1 initrd=/images/SuSE-10.1/initrd ks=http://netbackup/ks/interactive.cfg
The 'vmlinuz' is a copy of boot/i386/loader/linux, which is required by the tool I am using to set up the PXE environment (see
my notes on Cobbler and
how to apply cobbler to SuSE/SLES/SLED for details). Similarly the "ksdevice=" and "ks=" parameters are ignored by SuSE.
The five 10.1 CD images were loopback mounted and then tar'd over to the directory reachable through nfs://fs4/export/os/SuseLinux-10.1. The export is good (confirmed on a separate machine). The CD contents have been extracted twice now, and the downloaded images uncompressed without errors so I have no indication of a image corruption problem.
This is the identical process to what I followed with success for SLES 10, SLED 10, and SuseLinux 10.0.
(The point of all this, if you are curious, is to generate the appropriate AutoYAST file, so that you can add an "autoyast=" parameter to the PXE configuration and you get a diskless hands-off install of the system. And so far, this all works with the three versions I listed; hooray for me.)
However. When the interactive installer for 10.1 gets to the "Installation Settings" screen, the Software section claims in red:
No catalog found at 'nfs://fs4/export/os/SuseLinux-10.1'
Googling for this yields nothing; googling for "No catalog found" yields a lot of discussion about stopping the installer, loading a UDF module and then restarting (which has nothing to do with a network install, I'd think) which has varying degrees of success.
Can anyone help me understand what this message is trying to tell me, and maybe point me at a reference that will help me fix it?
Thanks for your time.
