David Boyes wrote:
If the virtual NIC definition in the CP directory includes the correct
VLAN specification and is defined as an access port on the VSWITCH, the
installation system shouldn't know (or care) that VLANs are present.
Your old method should work fine. A refinement that might be handy if
you are going to do a lot of guest installs is to set up a guest running
squid as a HTTP proxy and use the HTTP installation method instead of
FTP. The first install will take a while, but the 2nd and subsequent
installs can be done from the squid cached copies, which will speed
things up dramatically. It also gives you a really good look at what's
going on inside the installer in terms of what files are used, etc.
Apache does a fine job too; I used Squid to cache stuff when I installed
late versions of RHL off the Internet, then more recently Apache (I
first did it with Taroon, which in the first beta had the http protocol
wrong, so I had to rewrite headers).
With Apache, you configure a vhost - sles.this.lan - and install from
that. It can have the media itself, or proxy some arbitrary server
someplace. And one doesn't have to configure a poxy for the install
process:-)
the logs are handy too, and more easily read than Squid's.
--
Cheers
John
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