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

[rpjday]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:

> >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.

i'm pretty sure the mandatory name of the file is "ks.cfg", not
"ks.conf".

rday

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Robert P. J. Day
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