Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

["Birger Kollstrand" <birger.kollstrand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oops ,

Sorry for the previous answer. I messed up.

Thanks for answering.

Please feel free to use me both as a tester and a consultant for how
it might work in my "ideal" world :-) (If Python can be used, then I
could try to code also, but... my skills are limited)

Is there any possibilities to get som updates to this in to 11.2?

Can I write some doc's and if so, where would I start?

Regards Birger


2009/1/6, 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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