[mythtv-users] Who's got the smallest?

anders smith anders at smiths.dk
Wed Jun 16 15:15:52 EDT 2004


that would be rather neat!
-could even be couple...backend, frontend, combined.... would be even 
easier than using knoppmyth....I would think...
rgds
anders

On Jun 16, 2004, at 8:27 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:

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> Now I'm talking to myself, but hey...
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> On Wednesday 16 June 2004 10:32, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> On Wednesday 16 June 2004 08:32, Robert Kulagowski wrote:
>>> Is there something equivalent to a kickstart for RedHat, where the
>>> package choices are put onto a floppy or something like that and you
>>> only install what you need?
>>
>> If I understand correctly, you're asking if Red Hat has a kickstart
>> facility, which I presume you're comparing with what Mandy has (please
>> correct me if I'm wrong). Red Hat most certainly does have a kickstart
>> facility, and has had it for years upon years. They used to ship a
>> ks-config utility for quite a while, which was superceded by
>> redhat-config-kickstart (and now
>> system-config-kickstart in FC2).
>>
>> I use some lean and mean kickstart files for NFS installs of any and 
>> all
>> new servers at work. You can put a kickstart file on a floppy, on an 
>> NFS
>> server, on a web server, or what have you, pass a parameter at 
>> install time
>> (such as "linux ks=floppy"), and install completely unattended with an
>> incredibly trim package set, as defined in the kickstart file. Couple 
>> that
>> with a PXE-boot server, and you don't even need to put a CD or floppy 
>> in a
>> new machine to load an OS.
>
> I *really* ought to create a kickstart file people can download and 
> use for FC
> to build a Myth box. I could even install all the ATrpms stuff in the 
> %post
> section...
>
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