Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (59 mails)

[Mike Marion <mmarion@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:32:10PM +0100, chrroe@xxxxxx wrote:

> The problem is, that in the first part of the AutoYast installation (when 
> the RPMs are installed) the new machine knows its IP adress but not the 
> Computer Name.
> Only after the reboot when the second part of the installtion starts, the 
> hostname is set correctly.
>
> I have identified 3 RPMs so far which need the hostname in the first part 
> of the installation (aaa_base, postfix and a custom made one).

I don't know if Uwe or someone else might come back with a more elegant
solution (or point out why autoyast isn't doing what it should) but I
do know you could fix this with a pre script.

You could have a pre script see what hostname is associated with the IP
it has (assuming your rDNS updates for your dhcp values too) and create
a /tmp/profile/modified.xml with a <hostname> line like you mentioned
trying in a test.

I'm using this profile re-write ability pretty extensively to configure
the networking/hostname on the fly myself.  I have placeholders in the
profile file like:
  <comment>ADDON_DEFAULTS</comment>
  <comment>NIS_DEFAULTS</comment>
  <comment>NTP_DEFAULTS</comment>
  <comment>ROOTWORD_DEFAULT</comment>
  <comment>TZ_DEFAULT</comment>

Then I have a pre.sh script that walks the file and functions that
replace the above with values read in from a config file. This allows me
to use the exact same scripts/profiles at each of our offices with each
local admin setting the initial values to suit their needs. 

My entire networking section looks like:
        <networking>
                <comment>NET_DEFAULTS</comment>
        </networking>

And the hostname, IP, etc are all put into place and then autoyast reads
in the updated file before starting it's processing.

Next I'm going to add in the ability to size swap based on the amount of
physical ram with a multiple set by admins when they run the script that
sets up the files the installer uses.

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