Fedora 7 vs 6 installation

[Jerry Williams]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-devel-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jeffrey C. Ollie
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:27 PM
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
> Subject: Re: Fedora 7 vs 6 installation
> 
> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 20:06 -0700, Jerry Williams wrote:
> >
> > Be able to do a headless install.
> > Put DVD in drive and a floppy with config or usb flash drive and have
> system
> > boot and look for files on floppy or usb flash drive for the config or
> maybe
> > use some network protocol to get the config information it needs.
> > So it would lay out the drive and set network and time config and root
> > password and maybe second account and do a basic install that would
> allow
> > you to remotely connect and add other packages.
> 
> Kickstart has existed for a long time, since at least Red Hat Linux 7.
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc5/sn-automating-
> installation.html

Yes, I have known about kickstart, any maybe I just need to learn more about
it and work with it some more.
But it seems like I do an install and then I add packages that I missed or
someone else does and I also remove packages.

Like I add postfix and the switch mail program and then switch to postfix
and remove sendmail.  Haven't figure out how/if you can just install postfix
as your mail server with the GUI.

So that is why I said what I did. Kickstart doesn't to go far enough for me.
It would be nice if the GUI came up and checked all of the packages that are
on the system and network and disk settings and then you could tweek it some
if you wanted and be done.

And maybe it is just as simple as doing a rpm -qa and appending that to the
end of the config file.

I just loaded it to give it another try and it is much better, but still not
there.  It can't deal with my network configuration and doesn't go into
enough detail on the packages.  I think it really needs to be able to
display individual packages.

So maybe I need to submit a bug report:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/system-config-kickstart/network.py", line 180, in
showEditNetworkDialog
    ip1, ip2, ip3, ip4 = string.split(ip, ".")
ValueError: too many values to unpack


Thanks for your comment.



> 
> > I would also be nice to be able to clone a machine, maybe not totally,
> but
> > at least the packages.  Like run some command to create a file and then
> be
> > able to provide that file to another system to be installed.
> 
> The installer leaves a file called "anaconda-ks.cfg" in root's home
> directory.  With a few minor modifications you can feed that config file
> to kickstart
> 
> > And maybe some of these things exist now and I just need to learn about
> > them.
> 
> Yep.