Deploying Customized Preinstallations - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION Installation Manual

Deploying Customized
Preinstallations
Rolling out customized preinstallations of SUSE Linux Enterprise to a large number
of identical machines spares you from installing each one of them separately and provides
a standardized installation experience for the end users. With YaST firstboot, create
customized preinstallation images and determine the workflow for the final personal-
ization steps that involve end user interaction. This is different from AutoYaST that
allows completely automated installations; for more information, see Chapter 5, Auto-
mated Installation (page 85).
Creating a custom installation, rolling it out to your hardware, and personalizing the
final product involves the following steps:
1 Prepare the master machine whose disk should be cloned to the client machines.
For more information, refer to Section 6.1, "Preparing the Master Machine"
(page 104).
2 Customize the firstboot workflow. For more information, refer to Section 6.2,
"Customizing the Firstboot Installation" (page 104).
3 Clone the master machine's disk and roll this image out to the clients' disks. For
more information, refer to Section 6.3, "Cloning the Master Installation"
(page 113).
4 Have the end user personalize the instance of SUSE Linux Enterprise. For more
information, refer to Section 6.4, "Personalizing the Installation" (page 113).

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