h1. Autoyast based unattended installation

h2. 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.

h3. SLES9

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

h3. SLES10/11

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

h2. 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:

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<?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

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        </source>

      </script>

    </post-scripts>

  </scripts>

</profile>

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