Installation report 1 for beta 1

John Summerfied debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue Nov 29 06:23:54 UTC 2005


Charles Curley wrote:


>>I'd downloading the doc to see whether you're telling me something I 
>>don't know - I normally do kickstart installs, using PXE or a modified 
>>boot CD, but I particularly wanted to do a normal interactive install 
>>this time.
>>
>>It might be that ks actually does much what I want; I've never done an 
>>interactive ks install.
>>
>>I was thinking, maybe
>> ... kbd=pc-us LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 TZ=Australia/Perth src=nfs://server/path
> 
> 
> I vaguely recall that if you leave something out of the KS file,

I've read it, haven't tried it. However, a non-geek can type some of 
that stuff at the boot prompt whereas ks is for the more accomplished.

I'm thinking of something that might be even simpler than ks for simple 
cases.

> Anaconda asks you. Or do one manual installation, and use the anaconda
> file in /root as a basis for your KS file.

Speaking of which, how's your list of packages look?


> 



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