Re: Release announcement talking points -- Anaconda-Kickstart
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 14:47 -0500, chasd wrote:
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I know, kickstart, that's a hill I have yet to climb.
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It is easier to justify the learning time for making our own spin
rather than spend the time learning kickstart.
Anaconda-Kickstart is more than just about packaging. It's about
complete automation of the entire pre-/post-install process. When you
are deploying 100 systems, the network boot/install process with
non-interactive install is _mandatory_.
It's been almost 7 years since I've _ever_ installed RHL/FC/RHEL from
media. 98% of those have been NFS-based installs, the other 2% were
copied .isos to a spare drive/partition. Well over half those were TFTP
boots, while others were either floppy (pre-2.6), USB dongle or mini-CD
(not the whole #1 CD). I.e., if I'm not using a Kickstart, I'm booting
the installer with "askmethod" anyway.
I mean, the last time I did a full media install, it was Red Hat Linux
7. It's how I've personally (and professionally) installed thousands of
RHL/FC/RHEL systems.
If I was to pick out something really visible to me personally, it
would be Firefox 2 and Thunderbird 2.
I install them under /usr/local/lib/name-ver and symlink to
firefox2/thunderbird2 right now. Works much better and co-exists with
the official firefox/thunderbird packages.
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Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance
mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com
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