Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION Installation Manual page 108

Profile
Loca-
tion
TFTP
FTP
Replace the server and path placeholders with values matching your actual setup.
AutoYaST includes a feature that allows binding certain profiles to the client's MAC
address. Without having to alter the autoyast= parameter, you can have the same
setup install several different instances using different profiles.
To use this, proceed as follows:
1 Create separate profiles with the MAC address of the client as the filename and
2 Omit the exact path including the filename when creating the autoyast= pa-
3 Start the autoinstallation.
YaST tries to determine the location of the profile in the following way:
1. YaST searches for the profile using its own IP address in uppercase hexadecimal,
for example, 192.0.2.91 is C000025B.
2. If this file is not found, YaST removes one hex digit and tries again. This action is
repeated eight times until the file with the correct name is found.
3. If that still fails, it tries looking for a file with the MAC address of the clients as
the filename. The MAC address of the example client is 0080C8F6484C.
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Parameter
autoyast=tftp://server/
path
autoyast=ftp://server/
path
put them on the HTTP server that holds your AutoYaST profiles.
rameter, for example:
autoyast=http://192.0.2.91/
Description
Has the installation routines re-
trieve the control file from a TFTP
server.
Has the installation routines re-
trieve the control file from an FTP
server.