On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 7:09 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 1:08 PM Dave Dykstra <d...@fnal.gov> wrote: > > > > The installer gives choices for different levels of installs, and for > > partitioning. Of course you can always add packages later too. Try it. > > > > As in the past, upgrading a RHEL-based minor release can be done in > > place but upgrading major releases (e.g. 7 -> 8) need fresh installs. > > > > Dave > > Doing a better job of RHEL 8's published graphical installer could be > done, but it would no longer be directly Red Hat based. Frankly, I > gave up on the things for large environments, and published PXE setups > with kickstart files that had *much* finer resolution of deployment, > especially using multiple %post scripts to keep the operations in sane > source control, to set varieties of PXE configs for distinct setups, > and that did basic things like running "yum -y update" or "yum -y > install epel-release && yum -y install [ useful bits ]" as needed.
And oh, yes, I carefull told those kickstart files to put a copy of the kickstart file in /root/kickstart.ks, because what happens in /root/anaconds.ks is not the recipe that goes into a kickstart setup. It's what comes out after the kickstart file has been digested, and is not suitable for serving to others. Yes, it's a colorful metaphor: this has been going on for more than 20 years.