[CS-FSLUG] Transitions

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Quoting Josiah Ritchie <jritchie at bible.edu>:

> 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.

The nice part about this is that with kickstart (the option that I'm most
familiar with) you can take advantage of the distribution's hardware detection
which will handle most systems built within the last number of years.  In
general if autodetection fails it will then fall back to asking you what to
do.

If you want to install different sets of packages on different machines, then
you'll need to do a little bit of editing (although Redhat does provide an
editor to facilitate this).

David