On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 02:53:56PM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote: :Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
:: <some glowing things about install time configuration in debian> : <some love hate things about the same> :At work we use almost exclusively RedHat because of the kickstart install :option. I can make a kickstart file, put configuration information in the :post install (of the kickstart) and with one press of the button, RedHat is :installed, configured and running. That is not exaggerating (for those who :haven't done it, press enter at the boot prompt, it installs ... press :enter when it's done and it reboots and works. I'm truthfully in the same situation, although I've been less successful with kickstart. I'd say it's a beautiful thing 85-90% of the time (which is damned good) I keep telling my self that installation is not really the most time consuming thing I'm going to do with a given system (security monitoring and remediation is :( but this is why I've not pushed for a policy change to debian (unlike a lot of places users can install what ever they want so we have RH, Debian, Slackware, SuSe, and some home brewed stuff just on the GNU/Linux side (then there's BSD's, Sun's, DEC's Wins Macs.....)) I think there's a flag to make dpkg accept all default settings (been meaning to check that man page), so yes a silencer would be a good thing too. For the system I'm sitting at though I like the controll. -Jon