8 Automated Installation; Simple Mass Installation - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 17-03-2009 Deployment Manual

Automated Installation
AutoYaST allows you to install SUSE® Linux Enterprise on a large number of machines
in parallel. The AutoYaST technology offers great flexibility to adjust deployments to
heterogeneous hardware. This chapter tells you how to prepare a simple automated in-
stallation and lay out an advanced scenario involving different hardware types and in-
stallation purposes.

18.1 Simple Mass Installation

IMPORTANT: Identical Hardware
This scenario assumes you are rolling out SUSE Linux Enterprise to a set of
machines with exactly the same hardware configuration.
To prepare for an AutoYaST mass installation, proceed as follows:
1 Create an AutoYaST profile that contains the installation details needed for your
deployment as described in
(page 212).
2 Determine the source of the AutoYaST profile and the parameter to pass to the
installation routines as described in
Determining the autoyast Parameter"
3 Determine the source of the SUSE Linux Enterprise installation data as described
in Section 18.1.3, "Providing the Installation Data"
Section 18.1.1, "Creating an AutoYaST Profile"
Section 18.1.2, "Distributing the Profile and
(page 214).
(page 216).
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