Ajay Mulwani <ajaymulwani@gmail.com> 10/10/05 09:00 >>>
Now I am also looking for detailed info on rules and classes. Could you please point me to the latest document for autoinstall. Google resulted this this link www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/<http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/>. However it looks the link is missing the required doc. Any alternate location !!
From there you should be able to go to: http://forgeftp.novell.com/yast/doc/SLES9/autoinstall/9.1/html/index.html I do not know any further online docu.
But about rules and classes: The point is: 1) a so called class file is just a simple extract from a full installation ( control.xml, autoinstall.xml ) file. 2) the rules.xml will decide which files will be merged. Only the matched files will be merged, meaning NO default installation.xml file will be used by default. If you look at my example you see that the last rule will match everytime. So a ' standard ' XML file will be used/merged for every host. 3) All matched files will be merged to a large control.xml file which will be used for installation. The rest is just a place where the stuff will be. ./rules # Place/directory where the rules.xml file must be. ./classes # Just a directory where you place all your XML files. Keep in mind that if you use rules you must not supply a filename to autoyast ! Only the starting directory is allowed ( So the autoyast call must end with a slash ) Example: autoyast=nfs://server/suse9.3/ And below suse9.3 you have: ./rules/rules.xml ./classes/ ./largemem.xml ./lowmem.xml ./standard.xml hth Hajo