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

[Christian J Hedemark]

Phil said:
> 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.

+1.  I guess what Phil is asking for in Red Hat Speak is a kickstart disk.
I too would love to see more automation of kickstart so I can spend less
time reading docs & fiddling around, and more time feeding floppies into
machines to get them going.