My best practise: I never mess around with the initial release. For an update i create an update repository and add a section within my autoinst.xml to point to this repository.

During installation the stuff from the update will be used as well.

Hth Hajo

-----Original Message----- From: stephen.fergusson@gmail.com [mailto:stephen.fergusson@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Fergusson Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 5:53 AM To: opensuse-autoinstall Subject: [opensuse-autoinstall] openSUSE 12.3 installation with updates from DVD

Hi all,

We have downloaded the openSUSE 12.3 X64 DVD and copied it to a USB pendrive and OK installing from the USB pendrive. We have just downloaded the 1.2GB's of updates from ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/opensuse/update/12.3 that have been released since the release of 12.3. Is it possible to incorporate these updates onto the USB (or DVD) and get those installed in the initial installation?

I have read the information at SUSE / Uwe Gansert / autoyast / autoinstall and used the tool "create_update_source.sh" which has added the updates folder to the USB pendrive but what do I have to do next to tell the install to use this update folder?

Have been playing with autoyast and got a profile that nearly works so if it is something that gets added in the autoinst.xml, then that should be OK. I am aware of the ag_initscripts issue with autoyast as described here... [Bug 801878] AutoYast hangs at "Install Required Packages" and waits for.

Any help or advise appreciated.

Regards, Stephen.

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Hi Stephen,

OK... will try this. Can that update repository reside on the install DVD or install USB in a separate folder or does your autoinst.xml point at a network location?

From my understanding the update repository can be located on the installation media but we do only network installation so the following example must be adopted for a local repository.

Care to share the few lines out of your autoinst.xml?

An example for a network based add-on for opensuse 12.1

<add-on> <add_on_products config:type="list"> <listentry> <media_url>http://10.0.0.1/export/mirror/stable/ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/update/12.1</media_url> <product>SuSE-Linux-Updates</product> <product_dir>/</product_dir> <ask_on_error config:type="boolean">true</ask_on_error> <name>SuSE-Linux-Updates</name> </listentry> </add-on>

From a google search ( search was: add-on autoyast ) i found the following for local media based repository.

... http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.suse.autoinstall/page=11 <add-on> <add_on_products config:type="list"> <listentry> <media_url>cd:///updates</media_url> <product>SuSE-Linux-Updates</product> <product_dir>/</product_dir> <name>MyUpdates</name> </listentry> </add_on_products> </add-on>

Maybe OpenSuse 12.3 support also the file "add_on_products.xml" . If you use this there is no need for a autoinst.xml add-on entry, See http://doc.opensuse.org/projects/YaST/SLES11/onefile/yast-onefile.html for details .

Hth Hajo