I included [SLE] because there were several people on that listing that were trying to help me on my auto - install question. I've got the full box set for SuSe 9.1 pro. When I do this installation I want to do it in a way that can automatically create the same installation on other machines. I have been reading the box set manuals (but nothing found as a step by step guide for auto install). I acquired the .pdf file for auto-Yast from a SuSe site for auto installation thanks to those on [SLE]. I think auto-Yast is an alternate name for YAST2 but it could be an option in regular Yast that evokes YAST2? I am a bit confused on this as I only used YAST (text version) several years ago.. What I am looking for is the first few steps using these cd-roms (in the box set) to install SuSe 9.1 Pro while also ensuring that the final product will be suitable for building SuSe 9.1 Pro in the same way on other machines having different hard drives and format types as well as different CPU, chip set support, audio, video drivers, host name, IP Address and that sort of thing. (I realize that I have to check out the hardware compatibility issues first and I've done that). Can someone with experience on auto installations provide me with these first few installation steps and alert me to any problems that they know will probably arise. Thank you in advance for your kindness in this regard -- also I will be several days in responding. Ted