* Andreas Kurz <andreas.kurz@infonova.at> [May 17. 2002 21:22]:
during an manuall installation of suse 8.0 i found a couple of configuration-files in /tmp.
What configuration file exactly?
there are some files in directories called /tmp/YaST2-xxxx. i cant remember the names exactly ... e.g. partitioning.??? . the content looks like input for yast2-modules. but these are not xml files.
Aha I see. These are obviously temporary files and have really nothing to do with the autoinstallation. Sometimes /tmp is used to store module data during installation..
are there plans to implement a "simulation" mode for a yast2-installation. as a result you get an xml file (or something different) for an autoinstallation.
I am not sure I understand what you mean with 'simulation'! A cloning feature of an existing system might make it into the next version, is that what you mean?
cloning sounds good. i mean the next step: like a common installation for a new system (but in "usermode"), with partitioning, metadevices, lvm, package-selection, timezone .... but the result is an autoinstall.xml to put on an installation server. so you use the same-installation routine as on the installation-cdrom for an manual installation but at the end you dont really do a new installation, you only have your xml file. i think the installation routine for suse 8.0 is comfortable, why don´t use it in the autoinstall-module?
It's not as easy as it sounds. :-( The installation routines were designed for installation and configuration of a running system. That means alot of interaction with the running system takes place, something that should be avoided and would be make things very complicated when trying to run in 'user mode'. As a matter of fact, We have tried this in earlier versions and it requires alot of modification to the system and is very error prone. It is clear that the LVM interface for example is much more easier to work with than creating LVM conf using XML, but we are getting there slowly with special and modified modules in the auto-install configuration system. Regards, Anas
regards,
-- Anas Nashif <nashif@suse.com>, SuSE Linux AG Montreal (Laval), Canada