On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 6:23 pm, in message
, per@computer.org wrote: Uriel_Carrasquilla@ncci.com wrote: Per: machines are over a WAN, some under local control. Sending a CD plus FTP might not be optimal but an effective solution.
As I explained before in this thread you can just put the rpm's you need onto 1 CD structure, use houghi's CD to DVD howto to create your 1CD structure and use an autoyast.xml file to boot from cd using autoyast=file://<path> within isolinux.cfg. SLES 9 actually contains a YaST CD Creator module to do that, but for some reason this module dissapeared and is not part of SUSE pro, mayeb it is just one of thos special features you pay for. I must look at the code and extract the commands it runs.. In general from memory you Create an install you like with all packages you want and get rid of any package you do not want. Use that list of packages to create an autoyast.xml file. Create an autoyast.xml file that contains all those packages and not much else. Anything that is missing the installer will ask for anyhow. Create a Yast repository with those files. This will be the basis for your CD. or use Houghi's howto and just think 1CD instead of 1DVD. Populate the yast repository on disc with all the additional directories of the iso #1 Put the autoyast.xml file onto the yast repository and modify the islinux.cfg to start that one with autoyast= Create the iso using mkisofs Autoyast: http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstallation/ I get a chance to look at the YaST CD Creator in SLES9 once beta3 is out and I have redone some packages for SUPER for that, which is probably Saturday/Sunday. By then I can write a howto for the Wiki, Of course if someone else wants to do this, be my guest, saves me time and I can use it too ;) Regards, Andreas openSUSE is SUPER: To help in the SUSE Performance Enhanced Release project visit http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/SUPER