On Saturday 16 November 2002 22:55, George Roubchinsky wrote:
Could You please shortly check the following, just in general?
First is to install kind of "reference" system and do package selection by hands without saving to a floppy immediately on first install (like 8.0 was able by package selection screen interface). That's it...
Next - use the installed system's YaST Control Center - Misc - Autoinstall. Next - go through the interface carefully, in result something, in form of file, will be generated. Next - if I need only clone the software selection but nothing more - edit this file by some way to remove all extra info.. And/or edit the file for some other reasons (I want another or manual partitioning for instance on next install). You can edit it with the same interface where you cloned the computer. It's the botton next to clone.
Next - just put this file on the empty floppy as autoinst.xml (yes?). Right. Must have that name otherwise YAST won't recognize it at the next installation.
Next - on second (cloned) system just start installation booting from CD1 or DVD but typing 'autoyast=floppy' <enter> on the initial boot screen, insert that floppy before. That's it - installation will read that file and start with that cloned info in place..
So - is it in general correct? Yes it is :-)