On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 14:41 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote:
Philippe Landau wrote:
Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 14:58 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Friday 22 February 2008 14:44, Hans Witvliet wrote:
When doing a manual installation, the very, very last question is wether to generate a XML-config file (for cloning). I don't recall this, but then, I don't maintain a population of installations, just a couple of one-off systems (one still at 10.0, the other at 10.3), so such an option probably didn't attract my attention. Even more obscure, with opensuse, the checkbox is default "off" With SLE it is default "on" (something for bugzilla....) Are you going to add that there ? Or is bugzilla just a dump, in too many cases ?
Andreas Jaeger wrote:
see control.xml:
false We disabled it by purpose since it takes time and it was considered benefecial in general for enterprise server environments but not in general for openSUSE users. It's easy to change it - the question is: Does it make sense to change it for everybody by default? How much time does it take ?
hard to give an exact number, depends on the speed of you cpu... But i would say, less than one minute. I know, every second is precious, so don't waste any time. But doing an installation manually takes considerably more time So by using the xml-file once, you have gained already (besides the assurance that it is installed identically) To give you a comparison, Installing an default kde-system from DVD on an HP-DL360 manually, all the key-cliks and rpm-installation is about two hours, plus needing to update. Using an pxe-boot & xml-file, it takes 15 minutes, from reboot to fully installed & updated system, And in those 15 minutes, the HP-bios needs 5 minutes... Autoyast is great! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org