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-i...
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.