Linux and Solaris Kickstarts and Jumpstarts

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

To add to my previous comments: 

If you do a net install, then you can certainly add any extra 
rpm packages to the install server and then add them to the 
kickstart file. 

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, John Abreau wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 17:28 -0500, Rusty Shackleford wrote:
> > I am no longer at work so I cant check, is that an easy implementation
> > to use the file in there?  I have some other applications that I need
> > to have installed at the same time or is that file strictly for the os
> > part of it? 
> > 
> 
> That file is a script of the choices you made in the installer when 
> you installed the system initially. Applications you selected during 
> the initial install are included; applications you install later, 
> after the system is up and running, are not included. 
> 
> When you install a new system using a kickstart file, it looks at 
> the file each step of the way, and then only prompts you for things 
> that are missing in the kickstart script. So if you leave out the
> disk formatting stanzas, for example, but include everything else, 
> then the graphical installer will ask you to partition the disks, 
> and then it will immediately start formatting and installing. 
> 
> 
> 

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