[RHCE] Installation

[Frye, Matthew]

Max,
	That issue is reason in particular why I reserved time at our next
meeting to discuss installation as a topic, as opposed to moving on to the
next topic directly.  Consider these items to be talking points for
Wednesday (10/8/03) as I am concerned with covering topics germane to any
member's understanding of the subject at hand.  Thank you for bringing this
to my/our attention.  

Matt

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> From: 	Max T. Woodbury[SMTP:Max.TenEyck.Woodbury at verizon.net]
> Reply To: 	Red Hat Certified Engineer exam study group
> Sent: 	Saturday, October 04, 2003 9:20 AM
> To: 	rhce at trilug.org
> Subject: 	[RHCE] Installation
> 
> 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 floppy installation sequence in the book is badly out of date.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
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