Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (47 mails)

["Razi Khaja" <razi.khaja@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Anyone have an example of how to do this?  If not, what is the best way
> to go about this?

Read about autoyast at http://forgeftp.novell.com//yast/doc/SL10.3/
In particular section 4.16 is relevant ... see
http://forgeftp.novell.com//yast/doc/SL10.3/autoinstall/CreateProfile.Ask.html

> I would like the installer to query for the IP, netmask and gateway to
> be used on the box.
>
> Anyone have an example of how to do this?  If not, what is the best way
> to go about this?

I am attempting the same thing.

I interactively installed openSUSE 10.3 in a Xen Virtual machine such
that it used a static IP address. Next I generated a reference profile
for my virtual machine using yast2's autoinstallation module (YaST2 ->
Autoinstallation -> Tools -> Create Reference Profile).  Reading the
documentation I mentioned above, I added the xml below to the
reference profile inside the <general> tag (without modifying or
deleting any other tags in the reference profile).  Next I created a
new virtual machine with a static IP address using the autoyast
profile which requested the following 6 values: hostname, domain name,
ip address, netmask, gateway and dns server.

The <default> values are filled when the dialog appears during the
AutoYaST installation.  If you dont want default values pre-filled,
just delete some/all of the <default> tags.

This could also be done in a real machine rather than in a virtual
machine I suppose.

Hope this helps, and also hope that there is more activity and
interest in AutoYaST use, AutoYaST development and this list.
Razi

  <general>
    <ask-list config:type="list">
      <ask>
        <stage>initial</stage>
        <title>My Server Customization</title>
        <dialog config:type="integer">1</dialog>
        <element config:type="integer">1</element>
        <frametitle>Hostname and Domain Name</frametitle>
        <help>1. Enter the hostname of the server.  </help>
        <question>1. Hostname</question>
        <path>networking,dns,hostname</path>
        <default>mytesthost</default>
      </ask>
      <ask>
        <stage>initial</stage>
        <title>My Server Customization</title>
        <dialog config:type="integer">1</dialog>
        <element config:type="integer">2</element>
        <frametitle>Hostname and Domain Name</frametitle>
        <help>2. Enter the domain name of the server.  </help>
        <question>2. Domain Name</question>
        <path>networking,dns,domain</path>
        <default>mydomain.com</default>
      </ask>
      <ask>
        <stage>initial</stage>
        <title>My Server Customization</title>
        <dialog config:type="integer">1</dialog>
        <element config:type="integer">3</element>
        <frametitle>Static IP Address Settings</frametitle>
        <help>3. Enter the static IP address of the server.  </help>
        <question>3. IP Address</question>
        <path>networking,interfaces,0,ipaddr</path>
        <default>192.168.9.199</default>
      </ask>
      <ask>
        <stage>initial</stage>
        <title>My Server Customization</title>
        <dialog config:type="integer">1</dialog>
        <element config:type="integer">4</element>
        <frametitle>Static IP Address Settings</frametitle>
        <help>4. Enter the netmask of the server.  </help>
        <question>4. Netmask</question>
        <path>networking,interfaces,0,netmask</path>
        <default>255.255.255.0</default>
      </ask>
      <ask>
        <stage>initial</stage>
        <title>My Server Customization</title>
        <dialog config:type="integer">1</dialog>
        <element config:type="integer">5</element>
        <frametitle>Static IP Address Settings</frametitle>
        <help>5. Enter the gateway IP of the server.  </help>
        <question>5. Default Gateway IP</question>
        <path>networking,routing,routes,0,gateway</path>
        <default>192.168.9.1</default>
      </ask>
      <ask>
        <stage>initial</stage>
        <title>My Server Customization</title>
        <dialog config:type="integer">1</dialog>
        <element config:type="integer">6</element>
        <frametitle>Static IP Address Settings</frametitle>
        <help>6. Enter the IP address of the DNS server.  </help>
        <question>6. DNS Server IP</question>
        <path>networking,dns,nameservers,0,nameserver</path>
        <default>192.168.9.1</default>
      </ask>
    </ask-list>
    .....
   </general>
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