Remote installation problem with 13.2 i386

English Install/Boot/Login
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I attempted a remote installation today of opensuse 13.2 i386 to an old machine on my LAN. I used
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Remote_installation
as a guide. After booting the 13.2 i386 installation DVD, I successfully specified the ssh and TCP/IP related boot parameters to the installation kernel on the DVD, and was then able to use “ssh -X root x.x.x.x” to login to the system and run “yast.ssh” to get the yast installation window back on my desktop. I successfully completed the installation from the DVD, and upon completion, the system performed its planned reboot.

Upon logging in to the system using ssh again after the reboot was complete, I entered


**/usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.ssh
**

and it responded:


    File /var/lib/YaST2/runme_at_boot does not exist ...

    Not running YaST ...

and returned me to the shell prompt.

This sounds like
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807288
which was closed “fixed in 13.1”.

After my first attempt to run the command failed, I tried a


touch /var/lib/YaST2/runme_at_boot

and re-ran the command again, but it exited complaining about something related to the “mode” (of operation) not being defined.

I was unable to debug this further as I needed to get the 13.2 installation completed for some work. So I just manually ran “you” and am proceeding from there.

Is there a workable circumvention to this problem so that whatever should happen in the phase after that first reboot gets done correctly? I would like to use this remote installation method on some additional systems here.

2

References to “i386” should have been “i586”. Point being, 32-bit.

3

Further research leads me to the conclusion that there is no longer a Phase 2 part of the installation with YaST in 13.2. Therefore, after completing the first phase of installation with YaST and it reboots the server the need to run “yast.ssh” on the remote system seems to be gone. Would be nice if the article I cited indicated that with an update for 13.2.

This was not obvious to me as the script /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/Second-Stage/S08-start still checks and would react to the existence of /var/lib/YaST2/runme_at_boot

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On 2015-06-20 03:26, eheman wrote:
> Would be nice if the article I cited indicated that with an update for
> 13.2.

The article was last updated on 2012-08, so it is obsolete in more
senses than one. However, it is a wiki, anybody can write.
Volunteers/contributors for writing are wanted :wink:

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))