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B Minimalist AutoYaST Profile for Automated Installations and Useful Enhancements

The following AutoYaST profile will install a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server system with all default installation options including a default network configuration with DHCP. After the installation is completed, a bootstrap script located on the SUSE Manager server will be executed in order to register the freshly installed system with SUSE Manager. You need to adjust the IP address of the SUSE Manager server, the name of the bootstrap script and the root password according to your needs in the following lines:

<user>
 ...
 <username>root</username>
 <user_password>`linux`</user_password>
</user>

<location>http://`192.168.1.1`/pub/bootstrap/`my_bootstrap.sh`</location>

The complete AutoYaST file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE profile>
<profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns"
         xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns">
 <general>
  <mode>
   <confirm config:type="boolean">false</confirm>
  </mode>
 </general>
 <networking>
  <keep_install_network config:type="boolean">true</keep_install_network>
 </networking>
 <software>
  <install_recommended config:type="boolean">true</install_recommended>
   <patterns config:type="list">
    <pattern>base</pattern>
   </patterns>
 </software>
 <users config:type="list">
  <user>
   <encrypted config:type="boolean">false</encrypted>
   <fullname>root</fullname>
   <gid>0</gid>
   <home>/root</home>
   <password_settings>
    <expire></expire>
    <flag></flag>
    <inact></inact>
    <max></max>
    <min></min>
    <warn></warn>
   </password_settings>
   <shell>/bin/bash</shell>
   <uid>0</uid>
   <username>root</username>
   <user_password>linux</user_password>
  </user>
 </users>
 <scripts>
  <init-scripts config:type="list">
   <script>
    <interpreter>shell</interpreter>
    <location>http://192.168.1.1/pub/bootstrap/my_bootstrap.sh</location>
   </script>
  </init-scripts>
 </scripts>
</profile>

Use the following enhancement fragment to add child channels:

<add-on>
 <add_on_products config:type="list">
  <listentry>
   <ask_on_error config:type="boolean">true</ask_on_error>
   <media_url>http://$c_server/ks/dist/child/`channel-label`/`distribution-label`</media_url>
   <name>$c_name</name>
   <product>$c_product</product>
   <product_dir>/</product_dir>
  </listentry>
...
 </add_on_products>
</add-on>

Replace channel-label and distribution-label with actual labels such as sles11-sp1-updates-x86_64 and sles11-sp2-x86_64 (the distribution label must correspond to the Autoinstallable Distribution!), and set the variables ($c_server, etc.) according to your environment. For information about variables, see Section 8.6.1, “Autoinstallation > Distributions > Variables”.

Important: Add the Updates Channel

It is required to add the updates tools channel to the <add-on> AutoYaST snippet section. This ensures your systems are provided with an up-to-date version of libzypp. Without the inclusion of an updates channel you will encounter 400 errors. See the following example where the (DISTRIBUTION_NAME) is replaced with the name of the autoinstallation distribution created previously in Systems › Autoinstallation › Distributions

<listentry>
     <ask_on_error config:type="boolean">true</ask_on_error>
     <media_url>http://$redhat_management_server/ks/dist/child/sles12-sp2-updates-x86_64/(DISTRIBUTION_NAME)</media_url>
     <name>sles12 sp2 updates</name>
     <product>SLES12</product>
     <product_dir>/</product_dir>
  </listentry>

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