Setting up automatic network installations with AutoYaST

This guide assumes you have already followed through with the instructions for Setting up a PXE installation of SUSE Linux.

Creating the control file

Use the AutoYaST module found in YaST, it's called "AutoInstallation" in the Misc tab. You may need to install a yast plugin for this to appear. Copy the control file you create to /data/SUSE/autoyast.xml

Modifying the PXE configuration

Copy /srv/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default to /srv/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/interactive. We will be replacing the default file with the following

default linux

label linux
  kernel linux
  append load_ramdisk=1 initrd=initrd autoyast=nfs://192.168.26.1/data/SUSE/autoyast.xml \
splash=silent showopts insmod=bcm5700 netdevice=eth0 \
install=nfs://192.168.26.1/data/SUSE

Remove the \'s (it's there just to preserve line length.

64-bit

If you are doing a 64-bit install, you will need to replace initrd with initrd64 and linux with linux64 above. For example:

default linux

label linux
  kernel linux64
  append load_ramdisk=1 initrd=initrd64 autoyast=nfs://192.168.26.1/data/SUSE/autoyast.xml \
splash=silent showopts insmod=bcm5700 netdevice=eth0 \
install=nfs://192.168.26.1/data/SUSE