Federico Voges wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:54:16 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 01:09:38PM -0400, dep wrote: > > >just finished participating in the ul news conference. many > >interesting developments, not the least being that ransom love is > >out. i wrote it up here: > > > >http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=229 > > The part about the installation/management being done via YAST may well be > enough to keep me from going with UnitedLinux. YAST has been the main > reason we haven't done anything serious with SuSE. I don't like the idea > of the monolithic configuration that makes it difficult for the > knowledgeable admin to make changes without fear of having them undone the > next time somebody runs YAST. > > > Besides that, I really like Lizard because you can start the install, > set all the configuration options and leave the installation running. > When you came back, you have the system installed. You don't have to > stay arround answering questions every three install steps (and wait > for reboots, etc). > > What I'd really like is and unatended install option that is well > documenten and easy to setup. Lizard unatended install is almost > imposible to understand and a pain to setup. > > I must confest that RedHat's kickstart is good (at least is easy to > understand and configure). The big problem is that the gui has about 50 > dependencies. The first time I used it I installed it on a minimal > system and ended up with allmost a full install ;) > > > Federico Voges > Socio gerente > > Intrasoft > Malabia 2137 14 A > (1425) Buenos Aires > Argentina > > Te/Fax: 54-11-4833-5182 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.intrasoft.com.ar > > PGP Public Key Fingerprint: A536 4595 EB6F D197 FBC1 5C3A 145C 2516 >
_______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users During a SuSE install with YaST2, there is an option to save your settings on a floppy. Supposedly, you can later use this to do unattended installs on other machines. Jason Joines Open Source = Open Mind ======================== _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
