Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 11-05-2007 Installation Manual page 104

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.
4. If the MAC address–named file cannot be found, YaST searches for a file named
default (in lowercase). An example sequence of addresses where YaST
searches for the AutoYaST profile looks as follows:
C000025B
C000025
C00002
C0000
C000
C00
C0
C
0080C8F6484C
default
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put them on the HTTP server that holds your AutoYaST profiles.
rameter, for example:
autoyast=http://192.0.2.91/