Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (50 mails)

[abhijit <strongcofi@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/28/07, Alan McKay <alan.mckay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > No, I meant on the client side i.e. on the node where i intend
> > to install the OS. I plan to pxe boot the node into a linux shell
> > and then execute the required installer (autoyast for suse)
> > depending on the required distro...
>
> Hmmm, I'd be interested in what you come up with for sure!

The end goal is to have a pxe based loader, which gives
a nice menu with different distro's to install and then fire
off the required installer.

My initial attempt was to hack linuxrc. Tried reading thru the
messy source to figure out how it actually launches yast
or try and fire linuxrc from the shell. But as I said earlier
it behaves differently when running from the shell as
compared to when its launched as "init". and i could not
clearly understand the enviroment that yast needs (and
linuxrc sets up) for auto-installs reading the source.

So the plan now is to pxe load a tiny linux distro (that
has the required installer for each of the real/main distro)
and then fire the real installers... this IMO is a better
approach and easily extendable to cover more distros.

But for that i need to know the correct environment need
for yast to run in autoinst mode....
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