[Gllug] Type of Install Server/WorkerStation/Custom

[Dave Cridland]

On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 12:11, Ms. Lene Jensen wrote:
> Kickstart is very versatile.  You can use components (such as @Kernel 
> Development, @Gnome, @kde) or single rpms (e.g. mutt, binutils) and so 
> on.  In addition, you kan have third party rpms as long as they are in 
> the hdlist.  In the post section you can create users, create 
> directories, install thirdparty rpms (those _not_ in hdlist), and other 
> scripts.  I use it to set up computers to my specs, after install, they 
> have exactly what I want to have on it, so I basically just reboot and 
> it works.  Good tool, me like.

Not that you're biased or anything. ;-)

FWIW, a colleague of mine who is extremely pro-debian and
anti-everything-else, especially RedHat, considers kickstart to be a
good reason to use RedHat.

His favourite addon to RedHat being apt, of course.

Dave.


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