[sles-beta] Recent Autoyast Documentation

[Stefan Schubert]

Hi,
the "latest" documentation can be found here:
http://docserv.suse.de/documents/SLES12/SLES-autoyast/pdf/book.autoyast_remarks_color_draft_meta_en.pdf

But we really have to update it. Sorry for being so late :-(

A nice example for asking network settings has been posted
by a customer in bugzilla sometime ago:

     <ask-list config:type="list">
       <ask>
         <pathlist config:type="list">
           <path>networking,dns,hostname</path>
         </pathlist>
         <question>Enter Hostname</question>
         <stage>initial</stage>
         <default></default>
         <file>/tmp/ask_hostname</file>
         <dialog config:type="integer">1</dialog>
         <element config:type="integer">1</element>
    </ask>
       <ask>
         <pathlist config:type="list">
           <path>networking,interfaces,0,ipaddr</path>
         </pathlist>
         <question>Enter IP-Address</question>
         <stage>initial</stage>
         <default></default>
         <default_value_script>
           <source><![CDATA[host `cat /tmp/ask_hostname` | grep address | cut -d
" " -f4]]></source>
         </default_value_script>
         <dialog config:type="integer">2</dialog>
         <element config:type="integer">1</element>

  </ask>
     <ask-list config:type="list">

More general examples for the asking can be found here:
https://github.com/yast/yast-autoinstallation/blob/master/test_xml/ask.xml
https://github.com/yast/yast-autoinstallation/blob/master/test_xml/ask2.xml

You can suppress rebooting by using these settings in the general options:

         <final_reboot config:type="boolean">false</final_reboot>   <! -- since 11.0 -->
         <final_halt config:type="boolean">false</final_halt>       <! -- since 11.0 -->


Greetings
Stefan Schubert


Am 30.06.2014 10:54, schrieb Klaus Gmeinwieser:
> Hi all,
>
> is there a recent doc for all SLE 12 autoyast things available?
>
> I played around a lot with the Beta9 YaST2 autoinstallation to generate
> the necessary xml snippets, but some of those are invalid (e.g. grub1 is
> no longer supported I learned) but I did not get information on the
> stuff to do an autoinstallation (1.) without reboot and (2.) where the
> network settings may be provided by the user by means of a
> "questionnaire popup".
>
> As those 2 things would be a great advantage for installation to provide
> the hostname, IP, etc. at installation time, I am still trying to get
> this done
>
> Please advise how I can get the matching doc(s) or any helpful info on 
> this
>
> Thanks a lot in advance
> Klaus
>
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