Dear all, We're trying to setup an SLES9 SP3 system on a z/VM guest with autoyast. We would like to pre-defined an autoinst.xml file. It looks like the <dasd>...</dasd> section is mandatory since autoyast does not get the dasd hardware settings "on the fly". Unfortunately we don't know the mdisk id a priori, so that we currently are modifying the autoinst.xml file manually for every system with a different mdisk id. Replacing the autoinst.xml file with a new one during the pre-installation step (as described in the SLES documentation) does not work since hardware detection is done before pre-installation. Simply omiting the <dasd>...</dasd> section did not work since yast stops working after hardware detection since it does not detect any disk to install the system on. I tried to add a dasd= (resp. DASD=) parameter to the parmfile but it doesn't help detecting the disks. Does anybody know what we could do to omit that <dasd>...</dasd> section from the autoinst.xml file? Can we specify the mdisk id in that section with a placeholder? Or has it really to be hardcoded in the autoinst.xml file? [...] <dasd> <devices config:type="list"> <listentry> <channel_id>0.0.0150</channel_id> <diag config:type="boolean">false</diag> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> </listentry> </devices> </dasd> [...] Mit freundlichen Gruessen/Kind regards Kai Dusek