Hello, since suse10.1 (with its signed files, sigh) its quite hard to include additional RPMs in the installation process eg for doing postinstall tasks. Thats where I started trying autoyast for a basically standard installation with an additional postinstall script for each host I have. Basically this works fine. However I have one problem: The partitioning. I cloned an installed system and used this autoyast file (slightly modified) for installation. So it has sections for the partitions to be created. I also included a confirmation tag so that I have a way to change installation settings if I like before the installation begins. Since the cloned system was a IDE based one, the xml file has entries to create partions eg hda etc. Now when I start an autoyast installation on an IDE based system this works fine. But if I do the same on a SATA system the installation fails when creating the partioning plan because of the fact that there is no hda device but instead a sda. Actually I do not care about this failure since I would like to do this manually, but I cannot because of this error the complete installtion is stopped and I do not get to the point in yast where I could correct the partitioning and other installation parameters. Is there a way to tell autoyast not to take care of the partitioning because I am going to do this manually? This way I could use the same autoyast file for IDE and SATA and SCSI based systems. Else the only way I see is to use two autoyast files one for systems with hda devices and one for systems with sda devices. I tried an empy <partitioning config:type="list"></partitioning> section but this does not work either. autoyast still complains that partitioning did not work. Any other way? A second question is if there is a way to pause autoyast after the initial reboot, when in a standard yast installation the user is asked to do the printer, network, soundcard etc configuration. It would be nice (but not vital) if I could change things manually at this point too in the standard yast way. Any way to do this? Thanks Rainer -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Krienke, Universitaet Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, Raum A022 Universitaetsstrasse 1, 56070 Koblenz, Tel: +49 261287 -1312, Fax: -1001312 Mail: krienke@uni-koblenz.de, Web: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke Get my public PGP key: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------