Re: [suse-autoinstall] right steps to initiate autoinstall by booting from an USB stick

Create ./classes/autoinstall.xlm Create ./classes/MyPC.xml ( For each PC ) Create ./rules/rules.xml to parse the autoinstall.xml and the host part. Creata a file named 'info' and put it into ./boot/loader/initrd of your USB Stick ( Have to rebuild initrd ) After booting from the USB Stick select 'installation' and add on the command line : hostname=MyPC hostip=MyIP Where hostname + .xml must match the xml file name on your server BTW: For your environment you should change at least everything that has the name 'CHANGEME' in the attached files. Documentation: http://yast.suse.com/autoinstall/index.html http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-autoinstall/2005-Aug/0010.html Have fun Hajo

...

...

Stefan Pfeiffer 09/01/05 1:10 pm >>> Hello!

For usage in a rather small PC cluster i would like to trigger an autoinstall of client nodes by letting them boot from an USB stick. The clients have no floppy drive and no CDROM drive. The SuSE 9.3 image resides on a central server that is accessible by NFS. I would like to avoid PXE booting and messing around with the dhcpd. I think of some kind of very basic system on the stick together with the necessary control files to start the installation on its own without getting something from the server via TFTP. Only the installation source should be NFS. I am not quite sure what are the right steps to accomplish that. Looking on the web, i only find references to boot disks that initiate installation using TFTP, or to rather obscure instructions on how to put a complete runnable system on a stick (that does not initiate an autoinstall to hard drive). Stick size would be "what is needed", up to 512MB or 1G if absolutely necessary. I assume it is rather easy to do for someone who has some insight into that matter. I do not need a step-by-step description, just a little push in the right direction or towards the right resource. Thank you in advance. Regards, Stefan Pfeiffer -- # Dipl.-Phys. Stefan Pfeiffer # Abteilung Modellierung und Simulation # Fraunhofer Institut f. Lasertechnik # Steinbachstr. 15, D-52074 Aachen, Germany. # Tel: + 49 (241) 8906 153 , Fax: +49 (241) 8906 121 # EMail: pfeiffer@ilt.fhg.de, WWW: http://www.ilt.fhg.de/nld/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help@suse.com ============================ Hans-Joachim Ehlers UNIX Systems Engineer EUMETSAT Am Kavalleriesand, 31 64295, Darmstadt, Germany Tel : +49 6151 807-7307 eMail : hansjoachim.ehlers@eumetsat.int iNet : www.eumetsat.de