On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 17:40 -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
Is there any way to run a script that will bump an installation
created by a live CD up to a standard installation? If that is confusing, here is what I
want to be able to do.
1. Boot to a Live CD
2. Tell it to install to the hard disk and then reboot to the new hard drive
installation.
3. After it boots, a very limited version of the installation is there. I would like to
then be able to tell it to update the new installation so that it has the same basic
packages as a standard installation.
What's a "standard installation"?
I started to do the "yum groupinstall Base", "yum
groupinstall xxx", etc but it looks like that are fifty bazillion groups and, they
seem to install a ton of packages you don't need. Is there an easy way to do this (I
know...someone will say "Just do a standard installation" but I'm stymied
there for a variety of reasons that no one here would probably find interesting)?
You could check some machine with a "standard installation" and look at
its /root/install.log for ideas on what to install.
poc