Re: Problem with Performance after changing Webmin-Server's IP-Address

[Joe C. <jo...@sw...>]

I'll chime in, as I'm a kickstart junky myself.

Yes, Kickstart is a wonderful thing.  However, it is unique to Red Hat 
(and maybe some extremely recent off-shoots--PLD, maybe?).  Even 
Mandrake doesn't offer Kickstart.  For one thing, it is extremely 
closely tied to anaconda, which is not used for any other major 
distribution for installation, for another installation is one of those 
areas that every distributions likes to roll their own.  IMNSHO Red Hat 
are the ones who finally got it right--but I'm a box maker, not a normal 
"installs a server once a year" type.  I say that only because of 
Kickstart...I just adore kickstart.

Anyway:

Mandrake has some kind of automated install system, but you must 
actually install a system manually once and then 'play it back' for each 
identical install.  This sucks, but I guess it works for some folks.

Debian has no automated install process as far as I know.  Last 
discussion I saw about it on the Debian lists (admittedly over a year 
ago) the concensus was "that's what dd is for, you moron!"  dd is, I 
suppose, suitable for exact copies of machines, but not suitable for 
installing many similar but different systems--kickstart is smart enough 
to install a functionally equivelent system onto vastly different 
hardware configurations.

None of the others had a suitable automated install process over two 
years ago when I first had need of such functionality.  I would be 
interested to know if any of the distros have actually caught up to Red 
Hat in this regard.

Richard Teachout wrote:
> <I sent this to Ralf off-list, but thought that others on the list might
> benefit
> from this..so I've resent it to the list for the benefit of all..>
> 
> Ralf-
> 
> I would recommend you use (and forgive me I am a Redhat Fan, but I believe
> SUSE can utilize this as well ) something called a kickstart
> script..Basically what it is, is a script that tells your CD how to install,
> so you just put it on a floppy, then put the floppy in, and tell it to
> install via a kickstart script, Voila.

-- 
Joe Cooper <jo...@sw...>
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