[Spacewalk-list] OpenSUSE on Spacewalk Kickstart

[Jonathan Hoser]

>> a) Distro has a *, because, it was a bit tricky here.
>> We could not get the preinstall system to run on Spacewalk2.1,
>> as it kept telling us there's no network interface to install from.
>>
>> Research pointed us to include the "install=<FQDN>/[...]" parameter in
>> the Distro,
>> which was twice silently removed, and on the third try, the
>> SUSE-handling kicked in (my guess),
>> and now we have it twice.
>> Works, but I wanted to mention our experience with it.
> It should be automatically added as soon as you set "Installer Generation" to
> "SUSE Linux" .
Hmhm. That's what I'd have expected, but not what we had experienced.
>> [...]
> What are you doing ?
>
> You need to upload an autoinstallation profile. I think in spacewalk this is
> still named "upload kickstart profile". This is "free text" but for a
> Installer Generation = SUSE Linux it expects an autoyast XML file.
>
> No kickstart file please!
>
> "Create Kickstart Profile" cannot be used with SUSE, because this wizard
> generate really a kickstart profile which cannot be interpreted by a SUSE
> system.
>
> cobbler automatically add a lot of things to the autoyast xml file.
> Also the no-more-netboot triggers.
>
> So all the rest should work out of the box.
>
> (But I never tried this with a plain spacewalk, sorry)
Ah! That explains *that*.
We will try, and report back!

Thanks
-Jonathan

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