[SLL] Selective downloads for kickstart
Glenn Stone
technoshaman at liawol.org
Thu Aug 31 16:49:10 PDT 2006
In SUSE, there is a mechanism in AutoYAST by which you can create an ISO
containing ONLY the RPMS you need to satisfy a given autoyast.inf file.
This is extremely useful in that you can create an image for a dedicated
server that is only two or three hundred meg and have none of the desktop
fluff, or even if you're doing a desktop image, not include any of the
fifty'leven different language packages that you can't read... it saves
quite a bit of disk/bandwidth/whathaveyou.
I don't suppose there's anything remotely like that in Red Hat? I'm
reasonably familiar with RHEL, but I haven't seriously been keeping up with
the bleeding edge of late, having got into the apps side of things... at the
moment I seem to be stuck with sucking down the whole distro and then
running kickstart off that tree, knowing that I've downloaded a lot more
stuff than I really need...
Curiosly,
Glenn
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