Appendix C: Automated Installation#

This section provides information about automated installations.

C.1 Installing with AutoYaST#

AutoYaST provides a way to automate the installation process by providing a configuration file with the answers to commonly asked installation questions. NVIDIA provides an AutoYaST template for Grace platforms: https://repo.download.nvidia.com/baseos/sles/sles-files/15/sles15-ay/grace-autoyast.xml

For more information about using AutoYaST files with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15, refer to the SUSE AutoYaST Guide.

In these files, there are tags that you must replace with site-specific information including the following:

  • Language

  • Keyboard

  • Timezone

  • Hostname

Each tag is in the <CHANGE_YOUR_xxxx> form and must be replaced with your information.

  1. After you have an autoyast file customized for your installation, place that file in a location that can be accessed by NFS, FTP, HTTP, or HTTPS.

  2. After booting from the installation medium, when the grub menu appears, press e to edit the grub entry and append autoyast=<URL> to the list of kernel boot parameters.

    For example:

    autoyast=https://192.168.1.2/autoyast/grace-autoyast.xml