Re: How long to setup a new system?

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Jan 29, 2008 1:40 PM, Jarod Wilson <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> Every installed RH/Fedora system has a file created at installation 
> time, /root/anaconda-ks.cfg, which can be used to replicate that given 
> install. If you like, you can further modify that file, either by hand 
> or with system-config-kickstart, to tweak package selections, 
> formatting, network setup, or do just about anything you like in the 
> scripting language of your choice. 
> 
> The equivalent of 'dpkg --get/set-selections' would be 'rpm -qa > 
> packagelist', then 'yum -y install $(cat packagelist)'. But with a 
> kickstart, we can be even craftier, because we can actually get all 
> those bits installed at installation time, rather than after first boot, 
> by simply putting that package listing into a kickstart file. And to 
> preempt any "but you can't install mpplayer that way" madness, yes, you 
> can, because anaconda (and kickstart files) support specifying yum repos 
> on the 'net at installation time that will be used to install bits not 
> right on the isos. Honestly, kickstart is WAAAY more powerful than this 
> little dpkg trick. :)