I assume you use dhcp to give the client a IP. If not i would be surprised to find the mac address in the install.inf file. So on my SLES11 SP1 installations ( via pxe/dhcp & tftp for the kernel ) the key still exist in the install.inf. The file is located in /var/lib/YaST2/install.inf after the installation and in /etc/install.inf during installation BTW: Also check that the initrd has the "tftp" program available. Its looks like tftp is not available on the standard initrd so i assume the protocol type tftp can not be used by autoyast. In case nothing helps: You could use a rule.xml to determine the mac address, fetch the xml from A HTTP server to a local directory and do a final "merge" In case a tftp client is available you could use the logic for pure tftp . Example ( Not working ): $ cat rules.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE autoinstall SYSTEM "/usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/rules.dtd"> <autoinstall xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns"> <rules config:type="list"> <rule> <custom1> <script> ## Get mac Address eval mac=$( cat /etc/install.inf | grep -i ^hwaddr | cut -f2- -d":" | tr -d: ) # Get install Server/Autoyast parameter eval ayast=$( cat etc/install.inf | grep -i | cut -f2- -d":" ) # Download via curl or wget wget ${ayast}/$mac.xml > /tmp/$mac.xml echo -n $mac </script> <match>*</match> <match_type>exact</match_type> </custom1> <result> <profile>/tmp/@custom1@.xml</profile> <continue config:type="boolean">false</continue> </rule> </rules> </autoinstall> Hth Hajo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org