On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Egan Ford wrote: >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. You're missing the point. Levering Kickstart allows me to use all the storage and network drivers supported by Linux, plus all the scripting available in python to do customization, on diverse hardware which makes imaging solutions difficult. The "kickstart" part of the process simply refers to getting all necessary files to the host, and writing unattend.txt. Windows' own setup.exe does the real install. Other auto-installers for Windows simply do not have all the features, except perhaps for RIS, which I can't use because I don't want an Active Directory setup. Cheers, Phil
