Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 118

To prepare for a rule-based AutoYaST mass installation, proceed as follows:
1 Create several AutoYaST profiles that contain the installation details needed for
2 Define rules to match the system attributes of your hardware setup as shown in
3 Determine the source of the AutoYaST profile and the parameter to pass to the
4 Determine the source of the SUSE Linux Enterprise installation data as described
5 Pass the command line to the installation routines by adding the parameters
6 Determine and set up the boot scenario for autoinstallation as described in
7 Start the autoinstallation process as described in
5.2.2 Example Scenario for Rule-Based
To get a basic understanding of how rules are created, think of the following example,
depicted in
the following setup:
A Print Server
This machine just needs a minimal installation without a desktop environment and
a limited set of software packages.
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your heterogeneous setup as described in
Profile" (page 106).
Section 5.2.2, "Example Scenario for Rule-Based Autoinstallation"
installation routines as described in
Determining the autoyast Parameter"
in Section 5.1.3, "Providing the Installation Data"
manually or by creating an info file as described in
the File" (page 113).
info
tion 5.1.4, "Setting Up the Boot Scenario"
Monitoring the Autoinstallation"
Autoinstallation
Figure 5.2, "AutoYaST Rules"
Section 5.1.1, "Creating an AutoYaST
Section 5.1.2, "Distributing the Profile and
(page 108).
(page 110)
Section 5.1.5, "Creating
(page 111).
Section 5.1.6, "Initiating and
(page 116).
(page 120). One run of AutoYaST installs
(page 118).
Sec-