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

[prhodes at vdsinc.com]

> I work for Red Hat on the installer (and various config tools), and I'm

> <snip>

> So I guess the question isn't just to Roy, but to everybody:
  > What can we do to make the Red Hat Linux installer better?


Brent,

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.

note: I haven't done a RH install for a while ( been using SuSE for the
last 8 months or so ), so if this feature is already there, please ignore
this message. And me. :-)

TTYL,

Phillip Rhodes
Application Designer
Voice Data Solutions
919-571-4300 x225
prhodes at vdsinc.com

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