Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Birger!

On Thursday 18 December 2008 21:57:52 Birger Kollstrand wrote:
> Stano asked for feedback on the Yast autoinstal module.

Thanks a lot for feedback and sorry for a late reply.

> Her it goes.
>
> I don't get it. It sets up a ftp/http/nfs share and that's it. I don't get
> any documentation except for the help buttons in the module and those does
> not give out much. In the normal "Help" function on the start menu there is
> nothing except standard KDE information.( in khelpcenter)

Yes, the documentation about whole 'story' is not available AFAIK.

> Going in to yast i find the two SUSE documentation modules and add those
> susehelp_en-2007.08.22-80.46 and susehelp-2007.08.22-80.46. Should not
> those be installed by default? There were no susehelp modules installed.
>
> But still no suse help in khelpcenter even after restarting the app. No new
> items to index.
>
> now checking the/usr/share/doc/packages/susehelp/README. Adds Apache and
> folow "How to start: just point your browser to http://localhost/susehelp/";
> and gets a 404....
>
> No information on how it's ment to be used on the booting client is given
> in the yast module. Do I need a boot disk? If so , then there definately
> should be a wizzard assisting with that.

Yes. This a problem, as YaST modules are tools to do something. But network 
installation is not a trivial task - there are several questions you need to 
ask yourself (netinstall CD vs. PXE?, normal install vs. autoinstall?, ...)

> It definately does not set up a network boot as I was expecting. there is
> no atftp or tftp server set up. I would like to "Press F12 for network
> boot" and install from there. We use this at work in conjunction with
> autoyast and it's fabulous. but horribly hard to set up and maintain.

Yes. The module is designed to work with netinstall CDs, not PXE. But it seems 
you expect PXE setup to be provided as well.

> I also checked in on the Autoyast yast module. That does still not set up
> anything but the autoyast file as far as I could find out. It does not have
> any tftp integration and no integration with the installserver as far as I
> can see.
>
>
> Sorry that I did not test teis earlier and I do not think it looks usable
> for anyone but hardcore users.

Yes. Deploying a system from an internal server is an admin action that is 
rather expert in my POV. It requires planning, knowing a bunch of 
technologies, how the installation works etc.

Still, I see your point of no single start point. But I'm afraid the correct 
one is documentation - something we should improve somehow. 

Stano

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