Re: State of Autoyast for OpenSUSE 13.1

Am 30.01.2014 12:18, schrieb Thomas Fehr:
> Hi Ivan,
> 

Hello Thomas,

> On Thu, Jan 30, Ivan De Masi wrote:
> 
>> wouldn't a independant autoyast-repository make sense for quicker fixing
>> and updating?!
>>
>> A OS 13.1 rollout of clients and servers with these bugs in autoyast is
>> hard to do, when you always have to be aware if the tool that should
>> help and ease a roolout needs "help" too. ;-)
> 
> The fix for this needs to be in installation media, so having the fixed
> package in a repository where it gets installed from would not help to
> avoid this bug.

OK, thanks for this explanation. I was wondering for a while...
> 
> As I already wrote in my answer to Joschi, there is a driver update disk
> attached to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846011 which
> avoids the problem.
> 
> you just need to use e.g. 
> 
> netsetup=dhcp autoyast=http://10.120.4.28/autoinst.xml dud=http://10.120.4.28/bnc_846011_131.dud
> 
> as kernel boot commandline (of course with URLs adapted ;-) and place the 
> DUD where you get the autoyast control file from. Since I assume, most of 
> you have means to avoid typing the parameters manually (e.g. PXE boot, 
> modified isolinux.cfg on install medium, whatever) it ist just a one-time 
> change in setup that can be used for all 13.1 based installations.

Also thanks for this! I will try it (hopefully soon) and report.

Regards,
Ivan
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