Speaking of installers...I think what Paul may be looking for is more of what Red Hat offers, where you can complete an interactive install, and at the end a KickStart config file is written to root's homedir that can be used to repeat the installation automatically with the same settings. I personally think this would be a helpful option to have in some form or other.
William Yang > -----Original Message----- > From: desktop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org [mailto:desktop-discuss- > bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Alan Coopersmith > Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 6:27 PM > To: Paul Gress > Cc: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] build 130 - new GDM login screen > > Paul Gress wrote: > > OK, the new entry is custom. When the installer asks the questions, > > whichever one is selected and a script is run to set the defaults. I > > see Server admins complain all the time (in the Opensolaris mail > > exploders) taht they would like an easy way to customize their > > installation, since they have hundreds to do and would like it > > non-interactive. So they would write their configuration script, then > > when they want to install, whatever the start of the install is called > > they would add a "- Custom" or "- Server" or "- Desktop" to make it > > non-interactive and the install won't ask then and just skip over it. > > They should be using the Automated Installer, not running the LiveCD > hundreds of times, clicking the same buttons every time. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
