Dell "software"

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

Yeah, replying to myself.

Well, after my last email, I went into the lab... to discover that it had already installed - apparently a kickstart file, and the folks at Dell who wrote this come from a M$ background, and they know what you want better than you do. I never had a choice to pick what additional packages I wanted, nor get rid of those I don't need (like openldap-servers).

I need to get hold of Dell, and tell them what I think of this software....

     mark

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu,  8 Nov 2007 10:14:55 -0500 (EST)
>From: <m.roth2006 at rcn.com>  
>Subject: RE: Dell "software"  
>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>
>Marshall,
>
>>Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:32:47 -0600
>>From: "McDougall, Marshall (FSH)" 
>>
>>"Why would I want to wipe /home, or /opt, if they already 
>>exist? Give me one "
>>
>>/home is where DB2 lives and I want to start over or resize it
>>
>>/opt is where Sybase and my power monitoring software lives, etc.
>>
>Well, sure - but you can do that without running the Dell software, which is *specifically* for installing or upgrading the o/s itself.
>
>For d/b's, you might need to reinstall/install drivers... but again, you don't have to use the Dell software to do that, but the d/b's own installer.
>
>   mark
>
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