On Friday 27 June 2008 21:52:26 David C. Rankin wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
In Yast, there is a way to get a description of your system into a file that can be used during install. It can be told to start with the current system as a template. This even has the ability to change things after this to customize the new installs, using menus like the ones used in the install process. Note that this does not make an image so much as a description that can instruct an install to do the same thing. The advantage of this is that a file like this that is set up for, say, 10.3, can be used to install a new 11.0 system set up like the 10.3 system.
Bob,
The answer is yes, but I don't know how to do it. What I care about is getting all the same packages on the machine I'm installing. I have create user-packages.xml via Yast->s/w management->export and it does contain all the packages that need to be installed, but at the time of install, I have never gone back to figure out how to use that list for the install. Probably simple, but I have always decided its quicker to pick packages than hunt the information up.
Perhaps someone can help us both out.
What Roger was talking about is autoyast. In YaST, under Miscellaneous you have "Autoinstall", and in that you can do tools->create reference profile. Select the services you want to include and it will create an autoinstall profile for you based on your current system. For the full docs on all the cool things you can do with autoyast, have a look at http://www.suse.com/~ug/ Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org