Feature changed by: Duncan Mac-Vicar (dmacvicar) Feature #308539, revision 5 Title: Import/Export of YaST installation settings - openSUSE-11.3: New + openSUSE-11.3: Rejected by Duncan Mac-Vicar (dmacvicar) + reject date: 2013-03-05 17:36:18 + reject reason: not done for 11.3. Keeping for SLE12 Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Klaus Kämpf (kwk) - Product Manager: Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Configuring the installation settings in YaST (timezone, partitioning, packages) takes some time. When you then hit a bug in the installer (i. e. partitioning failure) forcing you to restart, things get annoying. This request is asking for an import/export option in YaSTs 'installation settings' overview. (Actually, the 'import' is needed much earlier ...) Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Usability. Disaster recovery. Discussion: #1: andrea florio (anubisg1) (2009-12-15 17:19:12) i usually do that using autoyast.. can you please explain better the difference? #2: Klaus Kämpf (kwk) (2009-12-15 18:19:40) (reply to #1) Getting to the 'installation settings' dialog in YaSTs installation workflow can imply a lot of work. It did for me since I did a special partitioning (encrypted "/home") and package selection. Having an 'export' functionality at this point during the install workflow appears as straightforward/natural to me. Using AutoYaST is fine, its just not obvious how to do that in the install workflow. The autoyast profile is saved at the end(!) of the installation, but thats a) too late (in case partitioning crashes as it happened to me) and b) non-obvious. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308539