confused about firstboot

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 12:53:25PM -0600, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
>     There are things that need configuration outside of Anaconda, when
> the thing has booted from it's normal kernel, like X.  And, it makes it
> convenient to stash application-specific things there for when you're
> doing a modified installation, too. (Think: corporate rollouts).

In my experience, people doing large-scale rollouts probably want to avoid
firstboot completely, and use kickstart's %post script to do any such
configuration. 

Everything Firstboot does _must_ be either optional or easily replaced by a
command line app.

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