Pungi / anaconda: seeding the pkg selection

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 18:46 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> The installer cd I'm trying to build (for the School Server) is driven
> by 2 custom packages - a metapackage that pulls in all the
> dependenciess, and a configuration package that whacks /etc .
> 
> Feeding those to Pungi via a kickstart file gets them on the installer
> CD, but does not get them installed by default. My overall goals (and
> stumbling blocks) are:
> 
>  1 - Support interactive installs (that defaults to installing the XS
> packages!) for developers & pilot sites. This should be the default on
> the grub menu...
> 
>   - How do get anaconda to pick those 2 custom packages by default?
> Using a kickstart file is not an option - it switches off the
> interactive install mode.

why not a kickstart with 'interactive' in the file:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-kickstart2-options.html

Pretty sure it's in F9, too - I just found the rhel5 ks manual faster.

-sv