AutoYaST is a system for installing one or more SuSE Linux systems automatically and without user intervention. AutoYaST installations are performed using an autoyast profile with installation and configuration data. That profile can be created using the configuration insterface of AutoYaST and can be provided to YaST2 during installation in different ways.

1.1. Availability

AutoYaST is available with recent SuSE products starting from SuSE Linux 8.0 and business products starting from SLES 8.

Products prior to SuSE Linux 8.0 and business products based on SLES 7 have an auto-installation system based on YaST1. A configuration management system is provided by ALICE for these products.

	Updated documentation
	Updated documentation can always be found at the following URL: http://www.suse.com/~ug