Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (89 mails)

["Marlier, Ian" <ian.marlier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, so I went to go read up on rules documentation, and discovered
that http://yast.suse.com/ now redirects to
http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?yast.  And that I need to
sign up for an account to actually read any of the docs there.  And they
seem to be SLES-specific, and I'm autoyast'ing SuSE Pro 9.3 machines.

Sigh.

In any case: I've got about 8 different distinct types of machines.
Different disk configs, different uses and thus different package
selections, and so on.  I'd like to set up a custom rule that matches
based on the DHCP-assigned hostname and/or the last octet of the IP
address (ie, database machines are in the .12X range of the subnet, and
have hostnames like "database-4".  I want the rules file to give them a
particular config by matching either the ".12" or the "database-").

Looking at the most recent docs that I have available (boo!), Rev.
1.1.6.4 from June 11, 2004, it looks like I'm going to have to resort to
a custom rule. 

But there's no hint of how to put together a custom rule in the
aforementioned doc.

So, yeah -- my question (there had to be one here somewhere....): Does
anyone have either of
- A location for more recent docs that explain how to set up a custom
rule; or
- an example of using a custom rule that I might be able to look over?

Thanks!

- Ian