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[Josiah Ritchie]

Jukka Y scripted ::

>On Thursday 08 April 2004 17:10, Josiah Ritchie wrote:
>> listmail at rotundus.com scripted ::
>[snip]
>> >Actually, such can be done for linux with not too much effort
>using> >kickstart in Redhat/Mandrake or Autoyast in SuSE.  When doing
>a> >Redhat installation (the latest I've played with there is 9.0),
>for> >example, after installation a kickstart configuration file with
>the> >details of the installation you just did is saved into root's
>home> >directory.  There are also facilities provided to run
>> >postinstallation scripts to handle stuff like adding in security
>> >patches.  This is something that I have thrown together before at
>> >work.
>> >
>> >There is a similar open-source install deployment method that will
>> >work for Windows 2000/XP (and perhaps others), although I can't
>quite> >recall the name.
>>
>> How does it respond when you run that same install on a Dell
>Notebook> with a P4, a Gateway from the late 80's, and a Compaq that
>came out of> some former government agency. My question, more
>precisely, can I use> that same install on various types of hardware.
>We don't often get> more than three of the same type of computer
>donated at a time.>
>> JSR/
>
>Hi Josiah!
>
>I have never used AutoYaST by myself, but found this from its
>documentation:"Using AutoYaST, multiple systems sharing the same
>environment and similar but not necesserily identical hardware
>performing similar tasks can easily be installed in parallel and in a
>short time."
>
>You can find more information here:
>http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/ref.html

Hm, what does similar mean? From a quick skim of the documentation, it
looks like it isn't as flexible as would be needed. Getting there, but
not quite. I think RH is at that same level, but I haven't honestly
looked into it in a long while.

JSR/