Hello,
Can anyone tell me what a “System Profile Location” is?
I’ve just downloaded 12.1 64bit and tried to install within VMWare. I get as far as ‘System Probing’ when a box is displayed which says:
‘A profile for this machine could not be found or retrieved. Check that you entered the correct location on the command line and try again. Because of this error, you can only enter a URL to a profile and not a directory. If you are using rules or host name-based control files, restart the installation process and make sure the control files are accessible.’
I have never seen this error in previous OpenSuSE versions, and googling does not return anything useful.
On 2011-12-07 10:06, linusoft wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Can anyone tell me what a “System Profile Location” is?
There were profiles time ago, I understand the feature was dropped for lack
of maintenance. It was reached through yast, and later cli. Configuration
files, like network, were saved aside, and then you could boot or change
the profile and have a totally different set of configuration files in use.
It was handy for laptops used on different places or with different hardware.
But I don’t think that you encountered this feature, it is not available in
11.4
> I’ve just downloaded 12.1 64bit and tried to install within VMWare. I
> get as far as ‘System Probing’ when a box is displayed which says:
The message is from vmware or from openSUSE?
Another possible source of the message could be autoyast. The installation
system could think you are using that, triggered by vmware automatic
installation. Don’t use that, make sure you are using the manual
installation when you define the new machine in vmware.
Otherwise, you can ask the devs in the factory mail list, to find out what
feature they added.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 12/07/2011 02:38 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The message is from vmware or from openSUSE?
-=WELCOME=- new poster linusoft
i am almost certain the error is coming from vmware and it is NOT
because vmware cannot find inside openSUSE a “System Profile”…no, i
think that is something the vmware user has to setup IN vmware…like
tell it how much RAM to give the VM, the kind of system it should be,
etc etc etc…the VM’s System Profile…
but, i’m guessing, as i was never able to find enough patience to
actually get a vmware running…instead i bailed out of that and “just
worked” installed VBox… [caveat: but that was on 10.3 and i’ve tried
VBox in over a year.]
it is probably covered in the vmware docs…
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DD
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobiles” of operating systems!
This is MOST CERTAINLY a Yast2 message. I just got it myself.
I booted the full DVD OpenSuse 12.1 and after the system probing (all checked fine) it pops up a Yast2 Message for System Profile Location. Full text is:
A profile for this machine could not be found or retrieved. Check that you entered the correct location on the command line and try again. Because of this error, you can only enter a URL to a profile and not to a directory. If you are using rules or host name-based control files, restart the installation process and make sure the control filses are accessible.
I have no way around this message, no idea why this is happening but it sucks! New DVD, download, mount in Vmware and pops up an error message with no way around it. Not good!
On 01/06/2012 05:26 PM, inflatablemouse wrote:
> You configured your Vm for auto installer, which installs a 2nd DVD
> drive and a floppy which are mounted on install. This screws up the
> installer.
>
why would any VM be set to install a second DVD drive and floppy?
why not a second CD drive, a SSD, a USB and a couple of extra tape
drives too??
sounds like someone needs to write a bug against VMWare to allow the
user/administrator to specify the VM’s peripheral hardware…
> why would any VM be set to install a second DVD drive and floppy?
> why not a second CD drive, a SSD, a USB and a couple of extra tape drives
> too??
A feature, not a bug. Intentional. If you are autoinstalling in vmware, you
need one dvd for the install source and another (or a floppy) for the
autoyast data, supplied by vmware to the install system.
If you want total control, do not use autoinstall in vmware.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)