Hi,
is there a way to do a reboot after partioning and/or after formating the disks (without too much hacking)? I would like to utilize such feature to press autoyast in our process and on the other side take advantage of the hardware recognition etc of autoyast.
Michael
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 09:19, Michael Welle wrote:
is there a way to do a reboot after partioning and/or after formating the disks (without too much hacking)? I would like to utilize such feature to press autoyast in our process and on the other side take advantage of the hardware recognition etc of autoyast.
no, there is no easy way but why do you want to reboot? What exactly do you want to achieve?
Hi Uwe,
Uwe Gansert ug@suse.de writes:
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 09:19, Michael Welle wrote:
is there a way to do a reboot after partioning and/or after formating the disks (without too much hacking)? I would like to utilize such feature to press autoyast in our process and on the other side take advantage of the hardware recognition etc of autoyast.
no, there is no easy way but why do you want to reboot? What exactly do you want to achieve?
in our management tool one can assign different tasks (such as partitioning, installing, etc) to a client. To perform a full installation one selects all predefined tasks. That's the way we install SuSE Linux now. But the GUI lets you select only one task, e.g. formating. Our users expected now that formating is the only action performed on the client.
Michael
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 11:06, Michael Welle wrote:
no, there is no easy way but why do you want to reboot? What exactly do you want to achieve?
in our management tool one can assign different tasks (such as partitioning, installing, etc) to a client. To perform a full installation one selects all predefined tasks. That's the way we install SuSE Linux now. But the GUI lets you select only one task, e.g. formating. Our users expected now that formating is the only action performed on the client.
ah. Interesting :) You can always do partitioning in a pre-script with fdisk if that is an option for you. After that, you can reboot if you want.
Hi,
Uwe Gansert ug@suse.de writes:
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 11:06, Michael Welle wrote:
no, there is no easy way but why do you want to reboot? What exactly do you want to achieve?
in our management tool one can assign different tasks (such as partitioning, installing, etc) to a client. To perform a full installation one selects all predefined tasks. That's the way we install SuSE Linux now. But the GUI lets you select only one task, e.g. formating. Our users expected now that formating is the only action performed on the client.
ah. Interesting :)
jepp ;). You can select a setup (e.g. SuSE Linux, some system from Redmond, or maybe Solaris if I find some time), select properties like IP stuff, partitioning, basic software scheme, display etc and assign the setup to a group of clients. After that select the desired tasks (e.g. full install), press the start button and go for a coffee. After a while 10k machines are deployed with the system. You have only one tool to learn to deploy all this different platforms. Disadvantage: it is not an open source tool.
You can always do partitioning in a pre-script with fdisk if that is an option for you. After that, you can reboot if you want.
Good hint, thanks. I have to think a little bit about it. But that may be the way to go.
Michael
What is the final reason for a reboot ? A far as i know you can configure the partition without a reboot.
cu Hajo
Michael Welle m.welle@gmx.net 24/01/2007 09:19 >>>
Hi,
is there a way to do a reboot after partioning and/or after formating the disks (without too much hacking)? I would like to utilize such feature to press autoyast in our process and on the other side take advantage of the hardware recognition etc of autoyast.
Michael
Hi,
"Hans-Joachim Ehlers" HansJoachim.Ehlers@eumetsat.int writes:
What is the final reason for a reboot ? A far as i know you can configure the partition without a reboot.
technicaly you are right. No reason to reboot after partitioning. But I integrate SuSE with autoyast into a toolsuite with a given process model. To fit this model best it would be nice to break an autoyast run into its steps and perform a reboot (on user request) after each step.
Michael
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