Autoyast based unattended installation¶

Media notes¶

Installation media can be accessed via nfs,ftp or http. The path to the installation media differs from SLES9 and SLES10/11. So you have to create two separate installation media entries in foreman.

SLES9¶

ftp://server/SLES/$major.$minor_$arch

SLES10/11¶

ftp://server/SLES/$major.$minor_$arch/CD1

Autoyast files¶

The Yast2 provisioning templates provided by foreman are working fine for OpenSUSE but not really for SLES. A good and minimal provisioning template tested on SLES 11.1:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!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>
      <final_reboot config:type="boolean">true</final_reboot>
    </mode>
  <%25= snippets "YaST2 Signature-Handling" -%25>
  </general>
  <networking>
    <dns>
      <hostname><%25= @host.name %25></hostname>
      <resolv_conf_policy>auto</resolv_conf_policy>
    </dns>
    <interfaces config:type="list">
      <interface>
        <bootproto>dhcp</bootproto>
        <device>eth0</device>
        <startmode>auto</startmode>
        <usercontrol>no</usercontrol>
      </interface>
    </interfaces>
  </networking>
  <ntp-client>
    <configure_dhcp config:type="boolean">false</configure_dhcp>
    <peers config:type="list">
      <peer>
        <address>ntp</address>
        <initial_sync config:type="boolean">true</initial_sync>
        <options></options>
        <type>server</type>
      </peer>
    </peers>
    <start_at_boot config:type="boolean">true</start_at_boot>
    <start_in_chroot config:type="boolean">true</start_in_chroot>
  </ntp-client>
  <%25= @host.diskLayout %25>
  <runlevel>
    <default>5</default>
  </runlevel>
  <add-on>
    <add_on_products config:type="list">
  <%25= snippets "YaST2 SLES 11.1 SDK" -%25>
  <%25= snippets "YaST2 SLES 11.1 Repos" -%25>
  <%25= snippets "YaST2 SLES 11 Driver Updates" -%25>
  </add_on_products>
  </add-on>
  <software>
  <%25= snippets "YaST2 SLES 11.1 Software" -%25>
 <x11>
    <color_depth config:type="integer">16</color_depth>
    <display_manager>gdm</display_manager>
    <enable_3d config:type="boolean">false</enable_3d>
    <enable_xgl config:type="boolean">false</enable_xgl>
    <resolution>1280x1024 (SXGA)</resolution>
    <window_manager>gnome</window_manager>
  </x11>
  <users config:type="list">
    <user>
      <username>root</username>
      <encrypted config:type="boolean">true</encrypted>
      <fullname>root</fullname>
      <gid>0</gid>
      <home>/root</home>
      <shell>/bin/bash</shell>
      <uid>0</uid>
      <user_password><%25= root_pass %25></user_password>
    </user>
  </users>
  <scripts>
    <post-scripts config:type="list">
      <script>
        <filename>post.sh</filename>
        <interpreter>shell</interpreter>
        <network_needed config:type="boolean">true</network_needed>
        <notification>Setting up Puppet / Foreman ...</notification>
        <debug config:type="boolean">true</debug>
        <source><![CDATA[
          cat > /etc/puppet/puppet.conf << EOF
<%25= snippets "puppet.conf" -%25>
EOF
/usr/sbin/puppetd --config /etc/puppet/puppet.conf -o --tags no_such_tag --server puppet  --no-daemonize
/usr/bin/wget -q -O /dev/null --no-check-certificate <%25= foreman_url %25>
/sbin/chkconfig puppet on -f
]]>
        </source>
      </script>
    </post-scripts>
  </scripts>
</profile>