Hi, A week or three back, Erik said: > You can run anaconda on an already installed machine and have > it install into a subdirectory, skipping all of the mounting > stuff. You'd have to partition by hand, but you *should* even be > able to kickstart this way. > > Install anaconda-runtime and run "anaconda -r /path/to/install -m > nfs://path/to/full/nfs/tree". Note that the second path needs to be > CD1 + CD2 (overlaid!), not just pointing to a CD (well, unless you > don't need any packages from CD2 anyway). You'll need to install > lilo/grub yourself, but the correct config file should get written > out. A modules.conf and other minutia (sp??) will need to show up > somehow as well. Again, that shouldn't be impossible as long as > you're installing similiar machines. Once it boots kudzu will do > most of that bit for you anyway. I've not been able to get this to work. It launches OK (and I'm quite impressed with the speed and whatnot of it running under the real X server and not on the framebuffer) but then bombs out after it gets to the "partitioning" dialog ... should that not be skipped when I've specified a root to install to? > Erik -- Bill Crawford, Unix Systems Developer, GTS Netcom work: bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, home: billc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx if (! (awake & TASK_RUNNABLE)) return -ENOCAFFEINE;
