SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1

AutoYaST

AutoYaST is a system for installing one or more SUSE Linux Enterprise systems automatically and without user intervention, using an AutoYaST profile that contains installation and configuration data. The manual guides you through the basic steps of auto-installation: preparation, installation, and configuration.

Publication date: November 12, 2015
1 Introduction
1.1 Motivation
1.2 Overview and Concept
2 The Control File
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Format
2.3 Structure
2.4 RELAX NG—A Schema Language for XML
3 Creating A Control File
3.1 Collecting Information
3.2 Using the Configuration Management System (CMS)
3.3 Creating/Editing a Control File Manually
3.4 Creating a Control File via Script with XSLT
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 Software
4.7 Services and Targets
4.8 Network Configuration
4.9 NIS
4.10 Authentication Client
4.11 NFS Client and Server
4.12 NTP Client
4.13 Mail Configuration
4.14 Security Settings
4.15 Users
4.16 Custom User Scripts
4.17 System Variables (Sysconfig)
4.18 Adding Complete Configurations
4.19 Ask the User for Values during Installation
4.20 Kernel Dumps
4.21 Miscellaneous Hardware and System Components
5 Rules and Classes
5.1 Rules-based Automatic Installation
5.2 Classes
5.3 Mixing Rules and Classes
5.4 Merging of Rules and Classes
6 The Auto-Installation Process
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Choosing the Right Boot Medium
6.3 Invoking the Auto-Installation Process
6.4 System Configuration
A Handling Rules
B Advanced Linuxrc Options
B.1 Passing parameters to Linuxrc
B.2 info file format
B.3 Advanced Network Setup
C Documentation Updates
C.1 December 2015 ( (Initial Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1)
C.2 February 2015 (Documentation Maintenance Update)
C.3 October 2014 (Initial Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12)
D GNU Licenses
D.1 GNU Free Documentation License

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