Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (99 mails)

[Uwe Gansert <ug@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 21 May 2007 17:22, Alan Mosca wrote:

>  I was reading about rocks (www.rocksclusters.org) and they are quite
> cleverly using bittorrent as a source for their kickstart installs.

what are they using bittorrent for? I visited their website but could not 
find out (I have to admit, I did not try very hard).

>  I was wondering if autoyast had any similar feature. Has anyone here
> ever tried anything similar?
>  Any ideas/suggestions appreciated.

with 10.2 you can use scripts that can fetch and install a system instead of 
the regular RPM installation. Maybe you mean something like that?
It's experimental though but here is an example:
http://www.suse.com/~ug/autoyast_changes_10_1-10_2.html
And it's not just experimental, it's buggy too. Here is a fix:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ug/autoyast

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Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team
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