Re: "create a lightweight installer/bootstrapper"

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Dan Horák wrote:
> Seth Vidal píše v Po 15. 12. 2008 v 07:49 -0500:
> > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Dan Horák wrote:
> > > Jeroen van Meeuwen píše v Ne 14. 12. 2008 v 15:18 +0100:
> > > > From the Wiki page at
> > > >
> > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Server#Installer
> > > >
> > > > What exactly do we mean by lightweight?
> > > >
> > > > What exactly do we mean by bootstrapping?
> > >
> > > It is a wrapper around "yum --installroot <dir> install", but you should
> > > end with a system that boots, root can log in and yum is available. It
> > > can work with USB devices (flash, harddisk), LVs, LUNs from SAN, etc,
> > > generally anything you can mount on a running system.
> >
> > Like Mock?
>
> yes, it's inspired by mock, only the target is a standalone system

So why can't you just use mock? Or, for that matter kickstart?

-sv