Hi, to install a SLES "Minimum system" with SP3, normally three CDs are needed: - UnitedLinux 1.0 SP3 CD1 (to boot with) - SLES8 Installation CD - UnitedLinux 1.0 CD1. I want to create a single CD that combines the necessary data s.t. installing only from this CD gives the same "Minimum system" of SLES-SP3. (Adding autoinst.xml would then yield an install process without any necessary interaction, without the need of a network connection (as with nfs install).) Can this be done with AutoYaST2's "Create ISO Image", or do i have to collect the data and call mkisofs manually (as sketched in http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-autoinstall/2003-Apr/0047.html "Self made CD-ROMS")? Anas Nashif wrote in "Re: No Kernel SLES8 SP3 autoinstallation", 2004-01-16:
The autoyast2 interface does not support creating CD for SLES8 installation or in general terms, a CD from multiple sources.
So therefore i tried to combine the three CDs' contents into one source (similar to "Create a Packagedatabase", http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-autoinstall/2003-Oct/0067.html ): Working on a SLES-SP3 minimum system as described at the beginning, I created suse/{i586,i686,noarch} and filled it by copying the contents of - UL CD1: UnitedLinux/{i586,i686,noarch} - SLES CD: suse/{i586, noarch}, - UL SP3 CD1: UnitedLinux/{i586, i686, noarch} . Then i called cd suse; /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/create_package_descr -d . This gives me "processed 1069 packages", and the setup/descr/packages file. Next step would be to add the suse directory as Software Source to yast2, but this only gives me: ERROR(InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media). How do i have to prepare the directory for use as software source? -Robert P.S.: Or should i forget about SP3 and try to manually extend the SLES8 installation CD contents by data from UL-CD1 to get a self-contained CD? (This would give me a single installation interaction: accepting the license.)