"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