On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 02:27:44PM +0100, Patrick Begou wrote:
Now my install procedure is fully working. Autoyast seams very promising for me. Just have to read more for rules and other numerous functionalities. My final goal is to provide automatic install of the users workstations, starting from PXE boot for new hosts, after a system crash (ex: loss of electrical power) or system disk replacement without any command issued by the user or the admin.
Unless you want the system to re-image every time it boots, this might be kind of hard. Or if you have a way of having autoyast detect the system is current and ok, then boot off disk. One thing we're doing here is using the basic menuing that pxelinux allows and setting a default pxe file with a simple menu. If the user hits return (or waits 10 seconds) it'll just exit pxe and boot off the disk. We've setup some simple boot menus that will allow them to self-serve an upgrade/re-image when desired though. Since we control the pxelinux menu, we can keep it very simple and have it pass the info into autoyast to install the image the user needs[*]. We're using it as a jumping off point to install a couple different distributions now (I mostly support our massive suse base though) including even letting the windows admins kick their box over into the windows imaging stuff. [*]I actually hacked the com32 C code and added in 2 custom fields myself too. I can have the menu pop up the desired hostname and user name and those are added into the cmdline at installation and parsed by our pre/chroot/post scripts in autoyast. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff IT Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com The Matrix is going down for reboot now! Stopping reality: ....OK The system is halted. -- yet another sig stolen from /. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org