AutoYaST is a system for unattended mass deployment of SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro systems. It uses an AutoYaST profile that contains installation and configuration data. The book guides you through the basic steps of auto-installation: preparation, installation, and configuration.
- Preface
- 1 Introduction to AutoYaST
- I Understanding and creating the AutoYaST control file
- II AutoYaST configuration examples
- 4 Configuration and installation options
- 4.1 General options
- 4.2 Reporting
- 4.3 System registration and extension selection
- 4.4 The boot loader
- 4.5 Partitioning
- 4.6 iSCSI initiator overview
- 4.7 Fibre channel over Ethernet configuration (FCoE)
- 4.8 Country settings
- 4.9 Software
- 4.10 Services and targets
- 4.11 Network configuration
- 4.12 Proxy
- 4.13 Security settings
- 4.14 Users and groups
- 4.15 Custom user scripts
- 4.16 Adding complete configurations
- 4.17 Ask the user for values during installation
- 4.18 Kernel dumps
- 4.19 Firewall configuration
- 4.20 Importing SSH keys and configuration
- 4.21 Configuration management
- 4 Configuration and installation options
- III Managing mass installations with dynamic profiles
- IV Understanding the auto-installation process
- V Appendixes
- 2.1 AutoYaST control file (profile)
- 2.2 Control file container
- 2.3 Nested resources
- 3.1 Example file for replacing the host name/domain by script
- 4.1 General options
- 4.2 Reporting behavior
- 4.3 LVM-based guided partitioning
- 4.4 Creating
/,/homeandswappartitions - 4.5 Using a whole disk as a file system
- 4.6 Automated partitioning on selected drives
- 4.7 Installing on multiple drives
- 4.8 Mount options
- 4.9 Keeping partitions
- 4.10 Auto-detection of partitions to be kept.
- 4.11 Create LVM physical volume
- 4.12 LVM logical volumes
- 4.13 RAID10 configuration
- 4.14 RAID10 without partitions
- 4.15 Using multipath devices
- 4.16 Listing multipath devices
- 4.17 Using the WWID to identify a multipath device
- 4.18
bcachedefinition - 4.19 Multi-device Btrfs configuration
- 4.20 NFS share definition
- 4.21
tmpfsdefinition - 4.22 iSCSI client
- 4.23 FCoE configuration
- 4.24 Language
- 4.25 Time zone
- 4.26 Keyboard
- 4.27 Package selection in the control file with patterns and packages sections
- 4.28 Packages selection using a regular expression
- 4.29 Creating a package database with the additional package inst-source-utils.rpm
- 4.30
add_on_products.xml - 4.31 Adding the SDK extension and a user defined repository
- 4.32 Kernel selection in the control file
- 4.33 Configuring services and targets
- 4.34 Network configuration
- 4.35 Bonding interface configuration
- 4.36 Bridge interface configuration
- 4.37 Multiple IP Addresses
- 4.38 Assigning a persistent name using the MAC address
- 4.39 Network routing configuration
- 4.40 Network configuration: proxy
- 4.41 Security configuration
- 4.42 Minimal user configuration
- 4.43 Complex user configuration
- 4.44 Group configuration
- 4.45 Enabling autologin and password-less login
- 4.46 Dumping files into the installed system
- 4.47 Dumping files into the installed system
- 4.48 Kdump configuration
- 4.49 Disabled Kdump configuration
- 4.50 Kdump memory reservation with multiple values
- 4.51 Example firewall section
- 4.52 Importing SSH keys and configuration from /dev/sda2
- 4.53 Client/server with manual authentication
- 4.54 Client/server with preseed keys
- 4.55 Stand-alone mode
- 6.1 Simple rules file
- 6.2 Simple rules file
- 7.1 Including a file using ERB
- 7.2 Using the largest disk
- 7.3 Configure the connected network cards
- 8.1 Using the MAC address to get the profile
- 8.2 Accessing ERB helpers from a Ruby script
- 9.1 Determine HEX code for an IP address
- 9.2
linuxrcOptions in the AutoYaST control file
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