Deployment Guide
- About This Guide
- 1 Planning for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
- I Manual Deployment
- 2 Deployment Strategies
- 3 Installation with YaST
- 4 Updating SUSE Linux Enterprise
- 5 Setting Up Hardware Components with YaST
- 6 Installing or Removing Software
- 7 Installing Add-On Products
- 8 Installing Multiple Kernel Versions
- 9 Managing Users with YaST
- 10 Changing Language and Country Settings with YaST
- 11 Remote Installation
- 12 Advanced Disk Setup
- 13 Subscription Management
- II Imaging and Creating Products
- III Automated Installations
- A Documentation Updates
- B GNU Licenses
Part III Automated Installations
- 18 Automated Installation
AutoYaST allows you to install SUSE® Linux Enterprise on a large number of machines in parallel. The AutoYaST technology offers great flexibility to adjust deployments to heterogeneous hardware. This chapter tells you how to prepare a simple automated installation and lay out an advanced scenario in…
- 19 Automated Deployment of Preload Images
With KIWI you are able to create operating system images. This chapter describes the process of deploying a system image to an empty client machine. For this, you need to create a preload image which contains a bootable RAW image. This file contains two important parts: a partition table and the actual operating system. This RAW image will be written to the empty hard disk and the operating system extends to the remaining disk space at first boot.