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AutoYaST provides a method to automatically and identically install groups of systems. The first step when preparing a AutoYaST installation is to decide how you want to install the target systems. The following scenario is a good example for how to set up and perform automated installations:
You need to install SuSE Linux on 50 new systems.
The development department owns 30 out of the 50 new dual processor and SCSI systems, and these systems must be installed as clients with development software.
The sales department owns 20 out of the 50 new, uni-processor IDE based systems and its systems must be installed as clients with end user software and office tools.
Prerequisites:
a boot server on the same Ethernet segment,
an installation server with the SuSE Linux OS,
an AutoYaST configuration server that defines rules and profiles.
A configuration repository holds the control files for multiple machines. The control files can have any file names, which have to be specified at the boot time of a target client. To avoid supplying the profile name for every client, you can define the directory of the control files. If a directory is specified, then the target client tries to load a file with a name matching its IP address in HEX mode. This has the advantage that you will be dealing with consistent file names rather than IPs as file names which might lead to some confusion.
The configuration repository is the same directory you specify when using the configuration system for creating control files.
To be able to use the HTTP protocol to retrieve control files while
auto-installing, you need a working HTTP server on the server
side. Install Apache or your favorite web server
and enable it using YaST. Normally the web server root directory
resides in /srv/www/htdocs so you need to create
a subdirectory which will serve your configuration repository.
Create a directory and export it via NFS to the target clients. This directory may the same location where you have copied the CDs. (i.e. /usr/local/SuSE).
By default the TFTP directory is available under
/tftpboot which can also contain boot images
if you are booting over network. Do not forget to enable TFTP in
the Inetd configuration file
(/etc/inetd.conf). Inetd configuration can be
done via YaST.