Hello, I am new to this list and just exploring the possibilities with the yast2 autoinstallation with suse8.0. I came across several questions that were not really clear to me after reading the documentation: I would like to configure a client to be installed as far as possible by DHCP. So the client should receive the SuSE-NFS installation source DIR and its server from DHCP and as far as possible I would like the client to get the location of the autoinst-controlfile as well from DHCP. At the moment my DHCP-server sets the nextserver and the filename options with IP-Address and PATH of the NFS server with the SUSE-CDs. Now when I start the installation and enter eg. autoyast=tftp://my-tftp-serverip/path/control.xml it seems autoyast does something different than expected. It configures the networkinterface via DHCP (gets correct values) but then complains that it cannot find the installation source. Well I had expected that the installtion source is received automatically by DHCP using the filename and nextserver-options and the the controlfile would then be received by tftp from the server given. But it is not. How can I do this? Ideally I would like to enter only something like autoyast=dhcp on the kernel commandline and then it should retrieve all information needed from the DHCP-server and start autoinstallation. Can this be done? What dhcp options are needed? A last question is, if it is possible to do a semi automatic installtion. Installing a client I always have to answer questions like Installation source, language, where to install the bootloader etc. My answers are usually always the same but on the other side the partitioning of the harddisk is different. So I would like to have defaults for most of the questions yast2 asks me during a manual installtion without beeing asked but have a way to partition the haddisk myself interactively. Does anyone know a way for this? Thanks Rainer -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Krienke krienke@uni-koblenz.de Universitaet Koblenz, http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke Rechenzentrum, Voice: +49 261 287 - 1312 Rheinau 1, 56075 Koblenz, Germany Fax: +49 261 287 - 1001312 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------