Hi Manuel, We actually do something very similar to this within Hewlett Packard. We have a web page where you can create a floppy or CD to autoinstall RedHat, Fedora, Debian and (in progress) various SuSE versions. You can get a glimpse at http://linuxcoe.com/designer There's a mail link there too if you want to discuss it with the main coder, Lee. Good luck! Chris -----Original Message----- From: Anas Nashif [mailto:nashif@suse.de] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 3:54 PM To: Manuel.Laesser@telekurs.com Cc: suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Create installation cd using autoyast Manuel.Laesser@telekurs.com wrote:

Hello, for my degree dissertation I need to create an installation CD based on SLES8 with autoyast. Because our company wants to use this cd to install a

bunch of server it has to be very flexible. I've got the following solution in my mind:

- boot server with custom-made cd - user has to enter ip-address, netmask, default-gw.... - unattended installation using autoyast2 will start (installing base system and all packages according to autoinst.xml) - additional packages like service pack, company software, useraccounts of

all admins should be added - configure server according to defined ip-address, netmask.....

My questions now are:

1. Does this concept work out? Not with the released and fixed packages. I am currently working on a script to allow creation of SLES installation CDs. However it is still pending.

2. Did anyone create a similar installation cd? 3. Can anyone give me some hints, because I really don't know how to approach this challenge!

Adding network data is not implemented in SLES8 (it will be available however in upcoming releases). Anas

Any comment is welcome!

Regareds, Manuel

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