The Monday 2005-03-07 at 19:34 -0900, Greg Wallace wrote:
utility. What really had me confused in the beginning was that the YAST backup does create something called autoinstall.txt. The "autoinstall" term made me think this was something similar to the diskette information that comes out of a Windows ASR backup. However, I posted questions about this file on this site trying to figure out what the heck it is and never got a response. I even posted mail to the "autoinstall" site. Same thing -- no response. Of course, if you don't get complete package backups out of your YAST backup, then, of course, an autoinstall couldn't really work anyway, not in the sense of a full system recovery.
The autoinstall.xml (not txt) can be put on a floppy during yast install and it will be used to recreate an installation equivalent to the original. It is a feature of autoyast. I don't know what it had in 8.1, I'm going by 9.1 docus. Notice that I said "equivalent". Changes will be lost, those are supposed to be in the backup. But remember that yast backup is not a full backup. How complete it is depends on your choices. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson