From: Don Coffin (deadman_at_muppetlabs.com)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2006 - 00:18:09 CEST
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 15:18:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Coffin <deadman@muppetlabs.com> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0606061507120.28796-100000@eidolon.muppetlabs.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SuSE novice seeking links to documentation/tips/tricks
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Alexei_Roudnev wrote:
> SuSe have a good document about autoinstallation and network
> installation. Few tips, in addition to them:
> - if you run system backup, you wil have xml file with
> autoinstallation profile (in addition to the file archive); you can
> (recommended) edit it manually and make autoinstallation profile
> from it;
> - you can open autoinstallation menu,. open default profile (which
> is, in reality, your server;'s configuration), save it with another
> name and then use it for auto installation;
> - be careful; in some cases (backup for example) yast can create
> autoinstallation xml with the wrong syntax (for example, backup
> writes package names into the tag name, so guess what happen if name
> looks as g++ - it broke xml parser).
> - you must use kernel from SP3 for tftpboot for network installation,
> not from release - I mean, that if you auto install SPx, kernel in
> tftpboot should be from the same SPx.
Thanks much for the tips, Alexei, especially in regards to the default
profile. Very helpful. I haven't configured system backup on this
server, since I've built it specifically to create custom installation
CDs. Once the CDs are made, the server I used to create them is due
for re-purposing....
I've succeeded in making an installation image without the 3ware
module - my next task is to figure out how to get it and it's pre- and
post-install scripts worked into the installation packages. I'll dig
deeper into the installed documentation to see what I can find. Part
of the problem I've experienced with this project has been learning a
new vocabulary (YAST- and SuSE-specific terms and such). Getting the
lingo figured out greatly increases the probability of success with a
Google or grep search. :)
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