[TriLUG] Re: Red Hat Installer: was: [different versions of 7.2 for sale]

[Sinner from the Prairy]

>From: prhodes at vdsinc.com

>FWIW, I have one suggestion for the RH Installer.  There is a feature that
>SuSE  nominally /has/ but doesn't work, or doesn't work well, that I would
>love to see in Red Hat.  And that is, the ability to save your installation
>settings to a floppy disk, and then retrieve those settings for a future
>install.  In particular, I'd like a working version of this, because I
>always do a "select individual packages" when I install. And it's a pain in
>the arse to go through that huge list of packages and select all that
>stuff, every time I do an install.  If I could retrieve a saved list of
>selected packages, it would make re-installs much easier, as well as doing
>indentical installs on multiple machines.

You name, you have it.

Check the anaconda-ks.conf file in your /root directory after install.

It is the file that, once checkd by you and modified accordingly (say, disk 
partitioning, install media...) will let you do this. Just copy it onto a 
boot.img / bootnet.img floppy as "ks.conf" and, at SysBoot prompt type 
"linux ks=floppy" and you are done.

Look for further help on RedHat site : the codeword is "Kickstart"


Salut,
Sinner

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