[RHCE] Installation

[Max T. Woodbury]

I was not entirely happy with the meeting on Wednesday and even less
happy with the lack of notes to this list.

The most important information revealed was that the test questions in
the book differ significantly from the real test in that the real test 
questions have only one 'best' where there are often multiple correct
answers to the book questions.

Another piece of important information was that the description of the
floppy installation sequence in the book is badly out of date. The 
version 9 floppy installation sequence is based on a single boot
image and a number of driver disks. The boot image is 'bootdisk.img'
with driver disks 'drvblock.img', 'drvnet.img', and 'pcmciaadd.img'.

I've experience with the drvnet.img using VMWare. I suspect that the
the drvblock.img disk is almost identical in structure and function,
but I have no idea what the pcmciadd.img does since I've never used it.
If someone has an environment where it would be appropriate to use it,
even if they do not need to do an installation, a report on its 
initiation sequence would be appreciated.

Also not covered was the fact that the installation process uses 
'anaconda' to do the actual installation and that any investigation of
the installation process details should be directed at that 
'application'. In particular, the documentation on anaconda describes
the actual options that can be used on the command line.

Another installation component that was not covered and might be
very helpful in speeding the installation process is the use of the
'kickstart' option. Unfortunately, I know almost nothing about it
other than that it exists and is supposed to speed up the installation
process when trying to install on lots of similar systems.

Max