Kickstart?

[nathan r. hruby]

Duh.. 

YDL-3.0 also uses the redhat installer, so in theory theory could use the 
standard redhat kickstart stuff, though I'm not sure if 3.0 has support 
for that.

-n

On Thu, 8 May 2003, nathan r. hruby wrote:

> On Thu, 8 May 2003, Soriano, Victor John (Vic) wrote:
> 
> > Is there anything like the RedHat Kickstart Configurator for YDL? I'd like
> > to install groups of packages without having to re-install the OS or install
> > packages one by one, if possible.
> >  
> 
> There is experimental support for this in recent versions of YUM, which
> has been shipping with YDL-3.0, but the shhipped version does not have
> this support and I don't think the YDL yum archives have grouplists in
> them.  
> 
> As a quickie solution you can use "yum install package1 package2" and yum
> will handle all the dependacies for you, which should make your life a bit
> eaasier.  For instance "yum install evolution" should make sure you have
> all the needed X, gnome, etc.. packages.  This may get you where you need 
> to be.
> 
> -n
> 

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