Using AutoYaST for customizing your appliance on first boot | Linux Today

Using AutoYaST for customizing your appliance on first boot

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 30, 2011

“When building appliances with SUSE Studio, I was often
challenged with finding a way to configuring an appliance on first
boot. The most common use cases like locale, time zone and network
configuration are being offered by Studio already.

“But is there an easy way for further customizing your
application on first boot? Yes, there is! Enter AutoYaST and it’s
powerful “Ask the user for values during installation”
feature.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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