On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, ext rpjday wrote: > > now that i'm going to figure out how buildinstall works, one really > trivial question -- what's it for? i've already figured out what > splitdistro is all about, but what's the purpose of buildinstall, > in ten words or less? thanks. this is getting more complicated by > the minute. Buildinstall builds the installer :) You point it to the distro's RPM directory and from the various packages in there (anaconda, X, kernel-BOOT...) it creates all the disk and *std.img images the installer uses. - Panu -
