Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (50 mails)

[Mike Marion <mmarion@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:10:21PM +0100, Yan Fitterer wrote:

> I don't think so.
> BUT: you can create an "info" file with that information 
> (and the autoyast parameter, as well as other bits) and have 
> that on a floppy or USB stick, if that helps.

Yeah, we did the same here for awhile.  The unfortunate thing is that
autoyast doesn't seem to actually parse the xml data until the main
autoyast parts start, which are gotten via the mounted install area.  We
started running into truncated /proc/cmdline data here too because we
use fairly long paths (can't really get around that due to our
environment) and we pass several other things on the cmdline.

Now we're ok because, as of at least SP1 for sles/sled10 + (and I
patched our older kernels) the limit for cmdline was bumped from 256
characaters to 2048.

We use pxe booting and mac addressed based files in order to pass host
specific based info to the boot process, then edit or rm that file
during the chroot script section.  Setup is good enough now that I can
run a menu driven script we have here, feed in a file consisting of 
hostname ip mac
and power on whole racks of hosts (we have a lot of blades now) and have
fully imaged hosts in a 1/2 hour or so.  I've grown to love autoyast. :)

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Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff IT Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com
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