Manageable installation

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jan 22 13:17:24 UTC 2007


Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 12:12 -0500, Joe_Wulf wrote:
>> Building a system for a minimal installation to provide basic unix
>> functionality without 'fluff' is a shot in the dark that will take
>> many many installs to 'get right' based on the current approach.
> 
> It strikes me that the installer ought to offer a couple of choices
> before and after you've picked your packages:  
> 
> After:  Save this as a file, so you can repeat the process (on the same
> machine or another).  Without you having to organise that post-install.
> 
> Before:  Use such a file on the installation.  Again, I see no need why
> you should have to mess around with creating anaconda scripts, if you've
> installed it once in a way that you're happy with, it ought to be easy
> to duplicate it.
> 

It already is. Check the log and kickstart files in /root after 
installation.

Rahul




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