Peets wrote:

I'm looking at defining a default package selection only - i.e. establishing a sort of extra installation selection beyond 'minimal', 'graphical' etc. The aim is to leave the normal SuSE installation process for Pro 8.2 intact but to pre-set the package selection to one that will be the default loadset for a particular class of desktops (I can't go automatic as the hardware is, er, rather varied ;-).

The problem is that I'm not able to identify in the AutoYAST dos how to stop AutoYast from being 'auto' - all I want is to pre-set the selected packages in the detailed package selecton of YAST and keep everything else precisely as is, i.e. manual and flexible.

Autoyast is Automated and you cant stop it from being automated. If you want only to change the package selection, you can change the selection files in suse/setup/descr and make them the way you want. However you need to test for consistency and dependencies and make sure all RPMs are there.

If someone could point out some docs or HOWTOs where this is detailed I'd be very happy, teh AutoYAST dos don't go into detail on avoiding automation ;-).

Anas

Kind regards, /// P ///