Svar: Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] How to use <ask> statements in autoyast?

20 Nov 2007

      .. another dumb question... when I've made my autoyast file I used a
VMWare machine - and the final result is to be used on both physical
hardware and virtual machines - will the section below mess up my day,
and make a bootloader that be kind of messy on physical hardware???

<bootloader>
    <device_map config:type="list">
      <device_map_entry>
        <firmware>fd0</firmware>
        <linux>/dev/fd0</linux>
      </device_map_entry>
      <device_map_entry>
        <firmware>hd0</firmware>
        <linux>/dev/sda</linux>
      </device_map_entry>
    </device_map>
    <global>
      <activate>true</activate>
      <boot_boot>true</boot_boot>
      <default>SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1</default>
      <gfxmenu>/boot/message</gfxmenu>
      <lines_cache_id>3</lines_cache_id>
      <timeout config:type="integer">8</timeout>
    </global>
    <initrd_modules config:type="list">
      <initrd_module>
        <module>piix</module>
      </initrd_module>
      <initrd_module>
        <module>mptspi</module>
      </initrd_module>
      <initrd_module>
        <module>ide-generic</module>
      </initrd_module>
      <initrd_module>
        <module>processor</module>
      </initrd_module>
      <initrd_module>
        <module>thermal</module>
      </initrd_module>
      <initrd_module>
        <module>fan</module>
      </initrd_module>
      <initrd_module>
        <module>jbd</module>
      </initrd_module>
      <initrd_module>
        <module>ext3</module>
      </initrd_module>
      <initrd_module>
        <module>dm_mod</module>
      </initrd_module>
      <initrd_module>
        <module>edd</module>
      </initrd_module>
    </initrd_modules>
    <loader_type>grub</loader_type>
    <sections config:type="list">
      <section>
        <append>resume=/dev/system/swap splash=silent
showopts</append>
        <image>/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.46-0.12-default</image>
        <initial>1</initial>
        <initrd>/boot/initrd-2.6.16.46-0.12-default</initrd>
        <kernel>/boot/vmlinuz</kernel>
        <lines_cache_id>0</lines_cache_id>
        <name>SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1</name>
        <original_name>linux</original_name>
        <root>/dev/system/system</root>
        <type>image</type>
      </section>
      <section>
        <blockoffset>1</blockoffset>
        <chainloader>/dev/fd0</chainloader>
        <lines_cache_id>1</lines_cache_id>
        <name>Floppy</name>
        <noverifyroot>true</noverifyroot>
        <original_name>floppy</original_name>
        <type>other</type>
      </section>
      <section>
        <append>showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp
noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3</append>
        <image>/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.46-0.12-default</image>
        <initrd>/boot/initrd-2.6.16.46-0.12-default</initrd>
        <kernel>/boot/vmlinuz</kernel>
        <lines_cache_id>2</lines_cache_id>
        <name>Failsafe -- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1</name>
        <original_name>failsafe</original_name>
        <root>/dev/system/system</root>
        <type>image</type>
      </section>
    </sections>
  </bootloader>
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Uwe Gansert <ug@suse.de> 19. november 2007 16:48:41 >>>
On Montag, 19. November 2007, Hougaard wrote:
...
- if I use the "<file>/tmp/answer_hostname</file>", what is the
format
of the answer file?? just an empty text file with the answer or?
it's a textfile with only the string of the answer. In case of a
boolean 
it's "true" or "false" (without quotes), in case of textentries it's
the 
exact string that was entered by the user.
...
- what about the value to be exchanged? should it be empty, or will
any
predefined value be exchanged with the one asked for?
does not matter. Empty or not, it will be replaced.
...
- Will it be possible to answer serveral "paths" with the same
question?? eg. below
unfortunately not. That's a design bug I did there. I'll fix that in
the 
future somehow without breaking compatibilty
...
<ask>
     <path>arkmanager,dbpassword</path>
     <path>ca_mgm,password</path>
     <question>Type Password</question>
     <stage>initial</stage>
     <default>Type in your password here</default>
     </ask>
or is there, a more clever solution to such a question?
...
- How about the password... is it possible to get this read from
an
clear text string? (I'm installing OES2, and there are several
with 10.3 you could change the profile via script but with OES2 there
is no 
really clever solution other than write a script and do the changes to
the 
system by yourself with it.

passwords
...
and some are written in clear text, and some ain't)
if you need the password in an encrypted way, then you have to <ask>
the 
user to enter it encrypted (*haha* - good one) or you encrypt it via
script 
and write it to the correct position in the system.

-- 
ciao, Uwe Gansert

Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team
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