We are using DHCP/pxe to provide the installation information. In case you use DHCP as well you could serve this info via dhcp. For example we are misusing the DHCP NETBIOSSCOPE variable to provide some information to the system during installation So you could use a pre script to modify your autoinst.xml file The logic could be ... cat /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-*info > /mnt/root/dhcpcd.info LocalTimeZone=$( cat /mnt/root/dhcpcd.info | grep NETBIOSSCOPE | cut -f2 -d= ) ... # Replace within the autoyast.xml the timezone to the required value I would use something like: ... <timezone>@TZ@</timezone> ... Within the autoinst.xml file and either replace @TZ@ with $LocalTimeZone or if $LocalTimeZone is not set use a default value like Etc/GMT In anyway: The question should more like: What is unique to each sides and can this info be given/requested to/from the installation process. cheers Hajo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org