>> 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!
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