Brian K. White wrote: ...Let's try an error-corrected version of that... (mostly everything was inconsequential typos, but too many of those and you can't exactly trust the consequential parts)
In case I do have to reinstall, this would be a great opportunity to try the autoyast install feature. I have read a lot of pages on it, but I am still not clear where in the boot process you provide the xml file to the installer. You got a favorite link that might help??
I do that by specifying it on the kernel command line. This means writing in either a syslinux or pxelinux config file or in grub menu.lst or by manually entering it at a syslinux/isolinux/pxelinux/grub prompt. autoyast=url-or-path-to-file.xml
There may be places that linuxrc (the very early script that runs immediately after the installer kernel loads) checks by default but I find it just as easy to specify an arbitrary file.
Example from a bootable usb stick with the kernel and initrd and very little else form a minimal/net install iso:
label auto_or1 kernel linux append showopts initrd=initrd install="http://host/path/to/oss" autoyast="http://host/path/to/or1.xml"
Stupid email probably wraps that. it's only 3 lines and the last one starts "append ..."
If I knew what drive letter the usb stick would receive after booting, I could put the xml file on the usb stick and use this instead:
autoyast="device://sdi1/autoinst.xml"
If it was /dev/sdi
Maybe there's a uuid or guid or label way to do that so you can write something that will always work regardless which /dev/sd* the stick gets.
You could type this in manually at the isolinux boot prompt from a stock install dvd instead of setting up an install repo mirror and creating bootable usb thumb drives. You would still need at least a regular usb thumb drive or web server just as a place to put the xml file.
autoinst.xml can be generated by installing the autoyast package on a working box and then in yast go to misc autoinstallation. You can clone the working box or write out a default reference file or you can use that yast module to build a custom file and write it out.
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