![]() This capability would have been available in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 boot media by the end of 2011. Well, one of our Czech colleagues took on the challenge and he and his team enhanced the YaST2 upgrade modules by introducing hooks where the AutoYaST process could “ask” the AutoYaST control file (an XML file) instead of an administrator. Nearly everything, except – you guess – the upgrade process. Clever idea, and indeed nearly everything in YaST2 can be scripted with AutoYaST. Now, the admins in the Maasland (don’t call them Maaslanders!) knew how to use YaST2, and also knew about AutoYaST, and were hoping to use its great automation capabilities. But what about for several hundred systems? ![]() ![]() Ok, then let’s do it the SUSE way: boot SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1, let YaST2 propose what to do with the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 system, ask the administrator for his decision if YaST2 is in doubt, and, well, there you go.That’s better, and kind of smooth for five or six systems.But it certainly misses the smoothness they were looking for. Dumb question, right? Do a fresh install, and be happy! Well, that’s an option.Now, these guys had several hundred SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 systems running (SLES 10 SP3 at that time), and were looking for a way to migrate their systems to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES 11 SP1) to benefit from its capabilities for Mission Critical systems. Last year, I got a call from a customer in the Maasland – a green countryside where they produce a tasty Gouda called Maaslander. Instead they try to resolve everything as smoothly as possible – powerful, but without unnecessary burden. I don’t want to deduct that they actually roll everything down there □ However, there seems to be some affinity to not directly lift heavy weights, to not perform things in uncomfortable steps. Have you ever seen how they move big cheese loaves in the Netherlands?
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