Hi, If you dont know it by now, there is a command line utility for YOU /usr/bin/online_update What you can do is download all updates (download only) to the server, create an update source with the script I have posted some weeks ago and copy the rpms to this new source and recreate the package database everytime something changes. All those steps can be automated using a smart script run by cron. Then you can install new machines with the new packages and without the need to run YOU afterwards... Anas Ashe Canvar wrote:

Hi all,

I am tryng to make a fully automated installation system for SLES9 for x86_64 and i386. First of all I must congratulate Suse for such an excellent, well thought out installation automation system. Yast does have its issues, but once I learnt the ropes it has made me pretty productive.

The issue I am not clear about is as follows:

- I created my base install image following the docs in http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/9.1/html/ch05s02.html#id2523126

- if I install 20 machines and then YOU them then it takes a long time, even if I run a local YOU server.

- What I ideally want is to update the installation tree I have created above such that doing a YOU update post-install is not even required.

Is there any way to accomplish this ?

How do I download the rpm's that have been released as updates to the base SLES9 release ? Doing that through the portal site is pretty painful/manual.

I would ideally like to automate this if possible as a weekl build/test/publish cycle for my organization.

Thanks!