Hello List members, We work on some 5-6 different types of servers and i want to create a Custom Installer , based upon Redhat 7.3 and future to do installations on these machines. Let me explain a little more about what i would want to do.This is what i was doing earlier.I was installing redhat on a machine (lets say model A, where we have models A...E),now i would build a custom kernel for it since my hardware is fixed , build a rootdisk/ramdisk, create a total tarball of the enitre system, and put these on the CD. then i was using systeminstaller to get these onto a machine.I was using grub to boot.So this method actually gave me the distribution/installer which i needed(based upon RH 7.3 of course).but i was not satisified with the tarball theory. I came across a document http://www.linuxworks.com.au/redhat-installer-howto.html which says that i can create custom installer using anaconda. My question to the list is , can i create custom installations based upon redhat packages and some kernel stuff of my own(patches, etc) , and using hardware probing (from /proc/ i guess ) create a CD which would recognise the model-(a..E)and then install a certain set of resources on to the machine.Can anaconda and kickstart help me with this? Now i am writing my own scripts to do the things and i think if i can re-use anaconda it would be wonderful.I need to understand how anaconda works? is there some docs on that? I am still learning and i hope that i can use anaconda (GPL?).Any basic inputs from the list shall be greatly appreciated. Thanks Abhishek __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com
