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Re: Wilderness Survival
> 2. RedHat already has a 'workstation' style installation which installs
> only workstation style packages and also repartitions non-destructivly
> automatically. I think this could be expanded upon to make
> installations more automated. One possiblity is to snatch hardware
> information directly from Windows (though, who would trust Windows with
> their hardware? ;) Another thing is to make more assumptions about the
> hardware. Be able to go into expert mode where you select everything
> manually, but in default mode you assume things like US-101 key
> keyboard, IDE HD and CD-ROM, no PCMCIA (I can just see ppl during the
> install, "What's PCMCIA"? :) no SCSI adapters, very vanilla. Of course,
> I'd like to be able to modify and create my own install disks with my
> own default, maybe load configuartion from a file (Insert Disk with
> Configuration File...)
>
RH also has a kickstart-file that you can use to automate most or all
of the installation. I haven't tried it yet, still trying to find the time
to update our computer labs and try using the kickstart-file in that.
It can set the packages to be installed, answer most of the questions etc.
See RH's docs for more info.
ramin
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