https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752261 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752261#c1 Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO CC| |ug@suse.com InfoProvider| |ug@suse.com --- Comment #1 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.com> 2012-03-14 15:51:37 UTC --- http://users.suse.com/~ug/autoyast_en.pdf reads -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the networking section, set this option to "true" (default is "false", available since openSUSE 11.2 but not in SLES11): <keep_install_network config:type="boolean">true</keep_install_network> YaST will keep network settings created during installation (via Linuxrc) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- but according to http://users.suse.com/~ug/autoyast_changes_SLES11SP2.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fixed the merging of install-network and XML configuration if <keep_install_network ..:> is set to true (bnc#712864) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- it seems keep_install_network is supported in SLE11-SP2 which would be good because RecoveryImage (i.e. rear-SUSE) exists since SLE11-SP2-HAE so that I could use it in RecoveryImage - provided it works as I think it does. Uwe, is keep_install_network supported in SLE11-SP2? Is my understanding correct that with <keep_install_network config:type="boolean">false</keep_install_network> the network configuration of the install system is not written during "first stage" to the installed system? I wonder when the default is "false", wouldn't it mean a change in the default behaviour in SLE11-SP2 compared to SLE11-SP1 where by default the the network configuration of the install system was written during "first stage" to the installed system (at least according to my experience with SLE11-SP1)? Or do I misunderstand something here? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752261 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752261#c3 Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |ug@suse.com --- Comment #3 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.com> 2012-03-15 14:26:08 UTC --- Uwe, where does AutoYaST delete the network config if keep_install_network is false? Does AutoYaST in this case delete something in files in the installed system? For my use case the crucial question is: Would <keep_install_network config:type="boolean">false</keep_install_network> make sure that AutoYaST does not change any files regarding the network config in the installed system? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752261 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752261#c5 --- Comment #5 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.com> 2012-03-16 13:36:17 UTC --- Many thanks for the info - it looks promising! In my use case I skip the second stage (see bnc#729509) so that the following minimal <networking> section <networking> <keep_install_network config:type="boolean">false</keep_install_network> </networking> should make sure that during the first stage AutoYaST does not change any files regarding the network config in the installed system. In my use case I only need to care about the first stage because I skip the second stage. In the end this results that AutoYaST does not change the network config which is exactly what I want because in my use case the files regarding the network config are ready-made installed via restore of a backup.tar.gz. I wonder what had happened at the time when I wrote https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729509#c1 which looks contradicting to what you wrote in comment #4 but I will try it out... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.