On Thu, 22 May 2003, Ralph Seichter wrote:
I enquired about "autoyast" a while ago (not here, mind you). I was told that autoyast is not flexible enough for this task, and that it does not support network based installations. If I get you right, you seem to indicate that it does feature network support?
Autoyast has supported that all along, that's what it's for.
Well it is reasoable if you want to reinvent the wheel :-)
I'm feeling kinda stupid. Very stupid, to be quite frank. I've taken the judgment on autoyast without further questions, because the source of the information has so far been a reliable one. I should probably have tested things myself, though. I certainly know someone who owes me a beer now. Dang! :-/
Your source wasn't very far off. The AutoYast that came with SuSE 8.0 was far from flexible enough for most purposes. I had to do a lot of coding myself on top of it to give it the flexibility I need. It's matured rapidly, though. In SuSE 8.1 it's more than flexible enough for most of *my* purposes (about 80 machines, six major hardware platforms and minor variations on hardware within these) with only a few small shellscripts on top. I haven't checked AutoYast with SuSE 8.2 yet.
Could you perhaps point me to the best source of information (FAQ, Tutorials, etc.) on autoyast? It seems to be the tool of choice for what I need to accomplish. Thanks!
As Anas said, http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/index.html What is missing is a more readable run-through of the AutoYast DTD and tags. There's a profile overview under the 8.1 docs, but I miss something I can print out - something like what was included in the early versions of the AutoYast documentation. I'm hanging on to my copy of one of those specifically because I love the reference part even if it's getting outdated. Bjørn -- Bjørn Tore Sund Phone: (+47) 555-84894 Stupidity is like a System administrator Fax: (+47) 555-89672 fractal; universal and Math. Department Mobile: (+47) 918 68075 infinitely repetitive. University of Bergen VIP: 81724 teknisk@mi.uib.no Email: bjornts@mi.uib.no http://www.mi.uib.no/