Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (192 mails)

["Francois, Jean (J.L.)" <jfranc46@xxxxxxxx>]

I have an interesting problem I am trying to solve.

Due to the nature of where I am doing the install, I have dialup speeds
and can't 
do effective network installs so I have to do a SLES8 and SLES9 Load
from CDROM 
with the control file in the floppy drive.
I want to be able to make sure the server that is doing the install has
its IP address
in the ACL at a tracking web server that would normally get used for
AutoYaST installs.

Is there a way to trigger an AutoYaST install that :

1. does a complete install from the CDROM
2. reads the autoinst.xml control file from the floppy drive
3. grabs some content from a web server and does not get a 404

without having to write a <PRE> script or modify the install root image
on the CDROM image?

If I do end up using lwp or wget, is there a smart way to integrate this
so it can interrupt the
install process if a file cannot be retrieved from a web server?

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