At 12:12 PM 3/17/2006, Robert wrote: >Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >>At 12:13 AM 3/17/2006, Robert wrote: >> >>>Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> >>>>At 10:13 PM 3/16/2006, Jim Perrin wrote: >>>> >>>>> > To use Kickstart Configurator, you must be running the X >>>>> Window System. To >>>>> > start Kickstart Configurator, select Applications (the main menu on the >>>>> > panel) => System Tools => Kickstart, or type the command >>>>> > /usr/sbin/system-config-kickstart. >>>>> > >>>>> > Can't find it. >>>>> >>>>>It's not installed. >>>>> >>>>> > So where is it hiding? >>>>> >>>>>yum install system-config-kickstart >>>> >>>> >>>>got it thanks. >>>> >>>>Now how do I figure out the packages and applications? >>> >>>You might do a >>>$ yum grouplist >> >> >>ok. >> >>>To see what groups are available and have a look at >>>/root/anaconda-ks.cfg >>>on a pretty much loaded system. Then there's the help file at >>>file:///usr/share/doc/system-config-kickstart-2.5.16.1/system-config-kickstart-basic.html >>> >>>which is in the RPM you just installed. >> >> >>Did not help me much at all. >> >>Where IS this .xml file in the Centos directories? I do have a local share. > > >Finding the file is no big deal: >[rj@mavis ~]$ locate comps.xml >/usr/share/comps/i386/comps.xml hmmm. >[rj@mavis ~]$ Oh, you have a computer called mavis too? :) >Attempting to second-guess the question and establish some context >is a whole 'nother matter. I thought that all you wanted to do is >create a kickstart file. Is that incorrect? I want to build a kickstart file. To do that, I want to know what there is to kickstart in. So I need to learn a bit about the groups and the apps in the groups. All I have done so far has been to do an interactive install, or use an anaconda-ks.cfg file with some mods. And then the anaconda-ks.cfg afterwards did not list the same packages! >>>Good luck! >>> >>>> >>>>Something about the base/comps.xml ? >>>> >>>>And once I find that on the CD, how to read/interpret it?