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Re: [suse-autoinstall] Network installation of SuSE 8.2 (GRUB, PXE, Ramdisk) - pointers to information needed
- From: Ralph Seichter <ralph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 12:25:33 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <OF88E7410A.C2AEB416-ONC1256D2E.0043E179-C1256D2E.00443408@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Bjorn Tore Sund <bjornts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's matured rapidly, though. In SuSE 8.1 it's more than flexible
> enough for most of *my* purposes [...]. I haven't checked AutoYast
> with SuSE 8.2 yet.
I have tinkered with the SuSE 8.2 AutoYaST for some hours now, and
it looks very promising.
> As Anas said, http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/index.html
> What is missing is a more readable run-through of the AutoYast
> DTD and tags.
It also appears that the configuration examples' DTDs are slightly
different from the ones in 8.2's /usr/share/autoinstall/dtd. I use
jEdit with the XML plugin by S. Pestov & A. Kaplan, and it showed me
loads of DTD violations when I tried to work on the examples. For
XML beginners, this could be very confusing, especially if they
can't use a validating editor and stumble over runtime errors later
on.
Talking of possible errors: The 8.2 KDE AutoYaST module produced a
configuration file including the following (other settings of the
"general" section omitted).
<general>
<clock>
<hwclock>UTC</hwclock>
<timezone>Etc/UTC</timezone>
</clock>
<keyboard>
<keymap>german</keymap>
</keyboard>
<language>en_US</language>
</general>
After installation, the clock was set correctly, the system language
aswell, but the keyboard setting was US English instead of German.
Is this a bug, or am I missing something?
> There's a profile overview under the 8.1 docs, but I miss something
> I can print out - something like what was included in the early
> versions of the AutoYast documentation.
Anas' documentation has already helped me a lot. However, a step-
by-step description would even increase the usefulness. If this was
even printable, all the better.
> I'm hanging on to my copy of one of those specifically because
> I love the reference part even if it's getting outdated.
Do you only have the printout left, or the source file aswell? I
would not mind the latter being sent by e-mail in my general
direction... ;-)
--
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Yours sincerely
Dipl. Inform. Ralph Seichter
> It's matured rapidly, though. In SuSE 8.1 it's more than flexible
> enough for most of *my* purposes [...]. I haven't checked AutoYast
> with SuSE 8.2 yet.
I have tinkered with the SuSE 8.2 AutoYaST for some hours now, and
it looks very promising.
> As Anas said, http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/index.html
> What is missing is a more readable run-through of the AutoYast
> DTD and tags.
It also appears that the configuration examples' DTDs are slightly
different from the ones in 8.2's /usr/share/autoinstall/dtd. I use
jEdit with the XML plugin by S. Pestov & A. Kaplan, and it showed me
loads of DTD violations when I tried to work on the examples. For
XML beginners, this could be very confusing, especially if they
can't use a validating editor and stumble over runtime errors later
on.
Talking of possible errors: The 8.2 KDE AutoYaST module produced a
configuration file including the following (other settings of the
"general" section omitted).
<general>
<clock>
<hwclock>UTC</hwclock>
<timezone>Etc/UTC</timezone>
</clock>
<keyboard>
<keymap>german</keymap>
</keyboard>
<language>en_US</language>
</general>
After installation, the clock was set correctly, the system language
aswell, but the keyboard setting was US English instead of German.
Is this a bug, or am I missing something?
> There's a profile overview under the 8.1 docs, but I miss something
> I can print out - something like what was included in the early
> versions of the AutoYast documentation.
Anas' documentation has already helped me a lot. However, a step-
by-step description would even increase the usefulness. If this was
even printable, all the better.
> I'm hanging on to my copy of one of those specifically because
> I love the reference part even if it's getting outdated.
Do you only have the printout left, or the source file aswell? I
would not mind the latter being sent by e-mail in my general
direction... ;-)
--
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Yours sincerely
Dipl. Inform. Ralph Seichter
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