I see no value kickstarting windows. IMHO, the best installer for any OS is the native installer. Work that you do to rollout Windows (e.g. with unattended.sourceforge.net) can be easily adapted as newer versions appear. You probably already know that about kickstart. Very easy to adapter to a newer/different OS that also uses kickstart. I remember another project (that I will not name) that attempted to replace the native installers for all Linux distros. The attempt was a single network installer for any Linux OS for any hardware platform. IMHO it was a failure--trying to figure out what RPMs to install and what anaconda(RH) and autoyast(SuSE) are also doing under the covers to create the OS. And it had to be maintained very frequently--consider the number of OSes/platform that just RH and SuSE produce each year. I have to support RH, SuSE and Windows on x86, x86_64, and ia64, and soon PPC. And I network install all of them. In my experience building a framework above the native installer works best. I use kickstart for RH, autoyast for SuSE, and partimage for Windows (partimage is a ghost like solution that runs on Linux and is free, most of my customers prefer to image rather than install for windows). I will be adding the unattended.sourceforge.net solution soon for scripted windows installs. > -----Original Message----- > From: kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Philip Rowlands > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:52 AM > To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Kickstarting Windows > > > On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Jim Wildman wrote: > > >Is anyone using kickstart to launch a Windows installation? > > Yes, although this is the second time of asking and I've > still not come > up with the goods I promised :( > > Another poster has got some sort of imaging program (Ghost?) > running in > Kickstart, but I'm aiming for a more complete installer, i.e. actually > customising and installing Windows from scratch. > > >Why? > >1) Because it would be neat > >2) Because our Windows team really needs a better installation method > >and I might achieve 'god' status by helping them out. > > What are your requirements; maybe I can help? > > > Cheers, > Phil > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list >
