Preparing The Master Machine; Customizing The Firstboot Installation - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 17-03-2009 Deployment Manual

17.1 Preparing the Master Machine

To prepare a master machine for a firstboot workflow, proceed as follows:
1 Insert the installation media into the master machine.
2 Boot the machine.
3 Perform a normal installation including all necessary configuration steps and
4 To define your own workflow of YaST configuration steps for the end user or
5 Enable firstboot as root:
6 Proceed to
17.2 Customizing the Firstboot
Customizing the firstboot installation may involve several different components. Cus-
tomizing them is optional. If you do not make any changes, firstboot performs the in-
stallation using the default settings. The following options are available:
• Customizing messages to the user as described in
YaST Messages"
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wait for the installed machine to boot. Also install the yast2-firstboot
package.
to add your own YaST modules to this workflow, proceed to

"Customizing the Firstboot Installation"

to Step 5 (page 198).
Create an empty file /var/lib/YaST2/reconfig_system to trigger
firstboot's execution. This file will be deleted, once the firstboot configuration
has been successfully accomplished. Create this file using the following command:
touch /var/lib/YaST2/reconfig_system
Section 17.3, "Cloning the Master Installation"
Installation
(page 199).
Section 17.2,
(page 198). Otherwise proceed directly
(page 207).
Section 17.2.1, "Customizing