On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 12:07:51PM -0500, Robison, Jonathon (M.) wrote:
I have come to the conclusion that because of the differences in hardware in all my test clients, I cannot use the normal autoyast xml file methods. I have been forced to instead change default.sel to ensure my package choices. This ensures that the normal installations hardware setup systems work to make sure my clients get what their individual hardware needs.
My next step is two-fold. I need to strip CD1 of all the rpm packages, and modify the boot choices so that the "Installation" options use my NFS server instead of the CD. Anyone care to point me in the right direction on that one?
All you need for network installation is the /boot directory. Then edit the file /boot/loader/isolinux.cfg and create the ISO image as described in isolinux docs (/usr/share/doc/packages/syslinux/isolinux.doc). Example of isolinux.cfg sections: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # demo install label demo kernel linux append initrd=initrd ramdisk_size=65536 showopts install=nfs://10.23.51.65/mnt/suse insmod=3c59x insmod=eepro100 # lnx01 label lnx01 kernel linux append initrd=initrd ramdisk_size=65536 showopts install=nfs://10.23.51.65/mnt/suse autoyast=http://10.23.51.65/ay/lnx01/ insmod=3c59x insmod=eepro100 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The only problem with this is that installer cannot autodetect network cards so that I have to add explicit 'insmod=xxx' to the command line. If there are only few different cards you can write all of them. Otherwise you would have write correct 'insmod=xxx' by hand in the installation menu. If you don't use DHCP, you need to add network parameters (ip=xxx netmask=xxx).
Secondly, during the normal install process users are asked to choose between "Minimal, Minimal with X, default " etc., etc. I need to change that to 1. Normal office user 2. J2EE Developer 3. Systems Developer 4. Kitchen sink.
This is NOT in the "choose individual packages" selection, but rather the normal install menu that comes before that.
Any ideas on how to change the normal install process/CD to show my menu choices instead of the regular ones?
Just replace the standard selection files in /suse/setup/descr with your ones. Don't forget to edit 'selections' as well. Michal Kubecek