large-scale deploy by autoyast

Large-scale deploy by AutoYastLarge-scale deploy by AutoYast

Hillwood Yang

http://hillwoodhome.net

hillwood@opensuse.org

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AutoYast

• A system for installing more SLE/openSUSE

• Automatically and without user intervention

– Partition

– Network configuration

– Choosing software

– Firewall configuration

– Service configuration

– Etc….

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Autoinst.xml

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A detail in the autoinst.xml

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Get autoinst.xml

• Clone an installed system

• Using Yast-Autoyast to Create

• From scratch by any editor.

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PXE boot server

• DHCP server

• TFTP server

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/etc/dhcpd.conf

group {

# PXE related stuff

#

# "next server" defines the tftp server that will be used

next server ip_tftp_server: 192.168.1.1

#

# "filename" specifies the pxelinux image on the tftp server

# the server runs in chroot under /srv/tftpboot

filename "pxelinux.0";

host test { hardware ethernet mac_address;

fixed-address some_ip_address; }

}

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PXE boot： Config TFTP service

/tftpboot /tftpboot/pxelinux.0 /tftpboot/initrd.img /tftpboot/vmlinuz /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default

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syslinux

# installlabel linux kernel linux append initrd=initrd splash=silent install=http://192.168.1.209/opensuse/ showopts autoyast=http://192.168.1.209/opensuse/autoinst.xml

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More about PXE

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:PXE_boot_installation

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Autoyast configure in syslinux

Document autoyast=file://path Let the installation search form specific path (If it was the root of the CD-ROM, please use the relative path —— file:///autoinst.xml).

Locale disk autoyast=device://path Let the installation search control document form locale disk. Just device

name is enough － If /dev/sda1 is wrong ， please use sda 。

Floppy disk autoyast=floppy://path Let the installation search control document form floppy disk. If the installation search noting in floppy disk, it will search control document form all usb device.

USB device autoyast=usb://path Let the installation search control document form USB device

NFS autoyast=nfs://server/path Let the installation search control document form NFS server

HTTP autoyast=http://server/path Let the installation search control document form HTTP server

HTTPS autoyast=https://server/path Let the installation search control document form NFS server

TFTP autoyast=tftp://server/path Let the installation search control document form NFS server

FTP autoyast=ftp://server/path Let the installation search control document form NFS server

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