automatic sound and network config
Hi, I'm trying to use yast2 to perform automatic installs on a wide range of pc hardware (I work for a computer recycler), and am trying to make the procedure as hands-off and automatic as possible. Ideally, I'd like to have one control file that can setup any of our machines. It looks like it's possible, but I haven't been able to figure out how to automate the sound and network card setup. I've read the available docs at http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/82.html, and understand how to manually specify them, but didn't see an option for auto-detecting them. Any advice or pointers to further information on how to do this would be appreciated. Thanks, Darby __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
Hi Darby, as I have seen the recognition of Hardware will occur after the second boot from harddisk after everything have been installed and you log in finally . Sometimes it could be nessecary to define a certain driver for a certain graphics card, but I don't know how to do this either. In the case of a sound card there is seldom to configure something. For a Network Card you can define the IP-Address and all other network specific data. After the mentioned auto-detect phase the recognized NIC will have the defined paramter. The Monitor resolution will be finally the highest possible what the monitor and the graphic board will be able to supply. But I am still looking for myself for a way to limit the resolution to a lower one. Regards, Kurt darby johnston schrieb:
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I'm trying to use yast2 to perform automatic installs on a wide range of pc hardware (I work for a computer recycler), and am trying to make the procedure as hands-off and automatic as possible. Ideally, I'd like to have one control file that can setup any of our machines. It looks like it's possible, but I haven't been able to figure out how to automate the sound and network card setup. I've read the available docs at http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/82.html, and understand how to manually specify them, but didn't see an option for auto-detecting them. Any advice or pointers to further information on how to do this would be appreciated.
Thanks, Darby
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--- Kurt Kronschnabl
as I have seen the recognition of Hardware will occur after the second boot from harddisk after everything have been installed and you log in finally .
Yes, that's the way I've got it working now. The sound and network config are left out of the autoyast control file, and then auto-detected and (mostly) auto-configured by the suse 8.2 "hardware wizard" on first login. I was hoping to find that same functionality in autoyast.
Sometimes it could be nessecary to define a certain driver for a certain graphics card, but I don't know how to do this either.
Automating the X config worked ok for me. Using the autoyast gui I just turned X on, set it to 1024x768@16 bits, and it figured the card out on it's own. Not necessarily optimal settings, but usable. I just discovered the autoyast xml dtds; I'll root around in there and see what I can find. Thanks for your reply, Darby __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
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