Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - DEPLOYMENT, Руководство по развертыванию

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Deploying Customized
Preinstallations
Rolling out customized preinstallations of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to a large
number of identical machines spares you from installing each one of them separately
and provides a standardized installation experience for the end users. With YaST first-
boot, create customized preinstallation images and determine the workflow for the final
personalization steps that involve end user interaction. This is different from AutoYaST
that allows completely automated installations; for more information, see
Chapter 21,
Automated Installation (page 285).
Creating a custom installation, rolling it out to your hardware, and personalizing the
final product involves the following steps:
1
Prepare the master machine whose disk should be cloned to the client machines.
For more information, refer to
Section 20.1, “Preparing the Master Machine”
(page 272).
2 Customize the firstboot workflow. For more information, refer to Section 20.2,
“Customizing the Firstboot Installation” (page 272).
3 Clone the master machine's disk and roll this image out to the clients' disks. For
more information, refer to
Section 20.3, “Cloning the Master Installation”
(page 281).
4 Have the end user personalize the instance of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
For more information, refer to
Section 20.4, “Personalizing the Installation”
(page 281).
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