I am having a frustrating time here. If I use the autoinstallation option of yast2 to generate an autoyast specification I get a software section like this: <software> <addons config:type="list"> <addon>Basis-Devel</addon> <addon>Basis-Sound</addon> <addon>Kde-Desktop</addon> <addon>Latex</addon> <addon>Min</addon> <addon>Office</addon> <addon>SuSE-Documentation</addon> <addon>X11</addon> </addons> <base>Minimal</base> <packages config:type="list"> <package>autofs</package> <package>lprng</package> </packages> </software> But if I put that in an otherwise working install specification (i.e. with all the other stuff like keyboards, network, X1 config etc.) then, when autoyast halts for me to confirm installation, the 'Software' section of the 'Installation Settings' screen of YaST sows two bullets: The first is '?' and the second is 'Size of packages to install 158.4 MB' and when I go in to the 'Software Selection' screen, I get no base specification shown (i.e. all radio buttons are un-checked) and the list of selected packages under 'Detailed Selection' is blank. If I go ahead with the install it fails trying to install lvm2 because the sed package is missing. Consistent with no base packages being loaded. Does anyone have an example of a working autoyast software specification .xml file for 9.3? I'm using the version of autoyast on the distributed CDs which is 2.11.13-3