New subject: [opensuse-autoinstall] Deriving hostname for .xml file from PXE client & setting values in /etc/sysctl.conf

1 Sep 2009

      Dear all,

Question 1:

	I am trying to construct a generic autoinst.xml file for several
clients.  The template I am using is the one generated from one server,
an HP Blade, found in /root/autoinst.xml.

I intend to use this from within a file called this, (the MAC address is
made up)
# cat /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/00-00-00-00-00-00-01

default SLES11
# install SLES11 - Dummy entry for generic profile
label SLES11
  kernel vmlinuz
    append initrd=initrd ramdisk_size=65536
install=nfs://10.205.8.145/export/sles11-dvd1-i586
hostip=10.205.8.123/24
autoyast=nfs://10.205.8.145/export/generica-sles11_i586-autoinst.xml
netdevice=eth0 textmode=1 insmod=bnx2

The autogenerated file contains host specific entries like,
  <host>
    <hosts config:type="list">

        10.254.66.90
        <names config:type="list">
          <name>newHPserver newHPserver</name>
        </names>

        127.0.0.1
        <names config:type="list">
          <name>localhost</name>
        </names>

        127.0.0.2
        <names config:type="list">
          <name>newHPserver.it.lan newHPserver</name>
        </names>

I would like to have this xml inherit the hostname, IP address from the
client that called it.

Question 2:

	In most cases these servers will run Oracle.  Therefore I would like to
some how add values for shmmni shmmax and so on for Oracle.  I expect to
have a separate .xml file somewhere that would set these values.  What
is the way to so this?  I thought that I could use some xml like this
but I don;'t know if this is the preferred way in the SUSE world?

<script>echo "kernel.shmall = 2097152" >>/etc/sysctl.conf</script>

How would I instruct autoyast to call this file?

Regards, S.

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[opensuse-autoinstall] Deriving hostname for .xml file from PXE client & setting values in /etc/sysctl.conf

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