On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 19:20, Sebastian Steins answered in private mail:
Hi,
thank you for your prompt reply.
I did get it managed today. Simply collect all RPMs (of /suse/ in CD1 and UnitedLinux in CD2-CD3) in one directory. cd to this directory. Then /usr/ lib/YaST2/create_package_descr -d . -lang english Now go into the parent directory of your collected packages and copy from CD1 into this dir: media.1, content and boot.
/content /media.1 +-> ./....... +-> ./....... /boot +-> ./....... +-> ./....... /suse +-> ./i586 +-> ./....... +-> ./....... +-> packages
Add this source to your YaST Install Sources. And then run Autoyast.
I really created a very fine bootable CD-Rom, spripped down to 187MB, and it really boots. My only problem for now is that YaST2 is not willing to read out the autoinst.xml. I tried to copy (on the iso-Image) the autoinst.xml to autoyast.xml (I saw this name in one particular file in the iso-tree), but this did not work either. YaST did not read it from a floppy! When I said explicitely "get it from floppy and there from /autoinst.xml" it worked. But what I want is a FULLY automated install routine. ;)
Perhaps you can help me with that further problem :)
Kind regards, Sebastian
Hi Sebastian, I hope you don't care that I put your info on the mailing list - it could be useful for other people, too. I did the following to move autoinst.xml to the cd and use it from there: 1.) I placed autoinst.xml into initrd, with the help of http://returntonature.com/pipermail/linux-sony/2002-July/000939.html. 2.) I prepended the following to isolinux.cfg: <quote> default autoyast # autoyast label autoyast kernel linux append initrd=initrd ramdisk_size=65536 autoyast=file://autoinst.xml instmode=cd usedhcp=0 </quote> Additionally, for fully automated install you might need the info in http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-autoinstall/2004-Mar/0007.html. This describes how to automatically accept the EULA and to avoid rebooting confirmation. -- Robert Pollak GPG Key ID: 748646AD