Re: [suse-autoinstall] Standard software installation using autoyast.xml

You can use classes, so that your software config is abstracted out of the main file, into a common "software only" profile. Or you can use rules to detect the hardware and include different HD configurations depending on what system spec it is. If disk sizes aren't vastly different, you could specify one partition as size MAX so that it takes all available space. And don't forget you don't have to specify which HD device is the first disk (i.e. the target of the partitioning). YaST will by default pick up the first one it finds if you don't specify a device. You only really need to specify in the autoyast profile anything that you want that isn't default. I've never tried to get the profile down to bare minimum, but I'd have though that package selection and partitioning would be enough. Yan

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On 28/02/2006 at 17:34, in message <20060228173424.GA31544@chameleon>, Trey Sizemore wrote: I'm wondering if an autoyast.xml file could be used solely for designating software packages to be installed. In other words, for a minimal server install, I want the same packages installed on those servers regardless of the hardware present (one may be a Proliant server and another an Optiplex). But I *do* want packages X, Y, and Z installed on both. Is this possible?

Partitioning wouldn't appear to work because the disk sizes might be different in the machines, but I want to update the process a much as possible.