Bjorn Tore Sund <bjornts@mi.uib.no> wrote:
It's matured rapidly, though. In SuSE 8.1 it's more than flexible enough for most of *my* purposes [...]. I haven't checked AutoYast with SuSE 8.2 yet.
I have tinkered with the SuSE 8.2 AutoYaST for some hours now, and it looks very promising.
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.
It also appears that the configuration examples' DTDs are slightly different from the ones in 8.2's /usr/share/autoinstall/dtd. I use jEdit with the XML plugin by S. Pestov & A. Kaplan, and it showed me loads of DTD violations when I tried to work on the examples. For XML beginners, this could be very confusing, especially if they can't use a validating editor and stumble over runtime errors later on. Talking of possible errors: The 8.2 KDE AutoYaST module produced a configuration file including the following (other settings of the "general" section omitted). <general> <clock> <hwclock>UTC</hwclock> <timezone>Etc/UTC</timezone> </clock> <keyboard> <keymap>german</keymap> </keyboard> <language>en_US</language> </general> After installation, the clock was set correctly, the system language aswell, but the keyboard setting was US English instead of German. Is this a bug, or am I missing something?
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.
Anas' documentation has already helped me a lot. However, a step- by-step description would even increase the usefulness. If this was even printable, all the better.
I'm hanging on to my copy of one of those specifically because I love the reference part even if it's getting outdated.
Do you only have the printout left, or the source file aswell? I would not mind the latter being sent by e-mail in my general direction... ;-) -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Yours sincerely Dipl. Inform. Ralph Seichter