how add additional repos to ananconda installer?

Frantisek Hanzlik franta at hanzlici.cz
Wed Jan 9 13:47:26 UTC 2013


Kamil Paral wrote:
>> My usuall installation practice until now was installation from local
>> nfs repos (Everything, Fupdates, rpmfusion*, my own). This had for me
>> advantages:
>> - I could fine select content for every installation
>> - after installation i had fully updated system
>> - when I did this installation for my usual installation types
>> (~5), then I can use their /root/anaconda-ks.cfg as kickstart files
>> for all rest of installations for given distro, and even (with small
>> edit) for next Fedora version install.
>>
>> It seems for me as new F18 installer is significant step back for
>> this
>> practice. And when I remember, kickstart as was ~2 years back, could
>> not
>> do fine package selection, maybe was not able work with multiple
>> repos
>> too.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> just study http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart or some other online documentation. Kickstart can do whatever you need - set up additional repositories, install package groups and individual packages.

Thanks, Kamil, I'll did it. I know about kickstart, but as I says -
when I tried it lastly (two, maybe more years ago), there was
something what not satisfy me. Perhaps kickstart was evolved over
this time too and will work fine for me now.

Regards, Franta Hanzlik


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