Sorry again, I only bcc'ed this mail to the list, which apparently caused it to disappear. tty,     686f6c6d ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: 686f6c6d <686f6c6d@googlemail.com> Date: Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 13:32 Subject: Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] autoyast and vlan To: Dirk.Lohmann@bertelsmann.de On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:40,  <Dirk.Lohmann@bertelsmann.de> wrote:

Hello, we are using the SELS11 minicd with costum-made initrd. If we boot with minicd, we boot into a graphical menu because we must configure the vlan there.

Ok, first of all, please take your time to read my email from 2010-11-14 and answer the questions, one by one, if that is possible. Otherwise we're running in circles here.

After we configured the vlan manuely the installation is going on. But after the first reboot we have to configure the vlan again.

Yes, I tried to answer that before, but I left out some important details it seems. (; The thing is, if you configure your network manually, (to my knowledge) autoyast has no way of knowing that, and hence you have to configure it manually *again* in stage 2 in this case. It is certainly debatable if this autoyast behaviour makes sense. I myself would like it very much if autoyast would, for example, extend <keep_install_network> to also remember a manually set-up network. (Uwe: Are there reasons why this wouldn't work or is a stupid idea?) However, the best option I found in your case was the one I was referring to in my long mail from before: - Put the commands you did manually in a shell script (because they look like they can be automated to a very high degree) - Put a small autoyast profile (autoinst.xml in my setup) on the boot CD with scripts to:  - bring up the network as you would do manually (you can also use ask-scripts to fetch user input)  - fetch the second profile (net.xml in my setup) from a webserver (if you use one) and fetch it to, like, /tmp/stage2.xml  - patch your already-manually-set network settings into that new autoyast profile and then move the file to /tmp/profile/modified.xml (This way, autoyast will use your user-input network settings in stage 2!) As a - lesser - alternative to the last point, you could instead use a script that "rescues" your file to stage2 and bring the network up by script from these values again. But then you still have to set it up manually *again* because you never told autoyast the machine should have a network configuration. How the exact VLAN section of the autoyast profile must look like you can best find out if you clone an existing server's settings. HTH,     686f6c6d -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org