On Tuesday 26 August 2003 13:22, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > What I thought of is this: > ... > Prepare such an installed system, > ... > This image will be a loop-mounted root FS, > ... > There, I (and the other installers) will conf/tune it for the hardware > ... > Configuring X shouldn't be that hard. Usually there is a simple > way to run the very same program the distro runs during the install > ... > It's quite easy to write some script that will automatically > mount all the fat/ntfs partitions without looking at fstab
Just like Eli, you are describing the creation of "mini" distro (with its "mini" installer). I think any one of us is capable of doing this. However, this is not a 5 minutes job -- you need to debug this thoroughly (you don't want to have a high chance of screwing every 3'rd computer). This is a total waste of time, since these procedures would have to be repeated almost every insta-party (since distros and installation tools evolve very fast -- about twice a year, which is the frequency of insta-parties). I want to state again: The only effective way for having "customised" install is to follow a major distro install and then install extra packages as "post-install". Any hacks done during install will have to be redsigned, re-applied, re-debugged every insta-party! You are right about the time it takes to defrag/partition/prepare the installee machine. However, we do want to *install* linux for him and not just hand him Knoppix (which would be excelent solution for the people who [yet] do not want to install Linux), or as you suggested, provide him with a "magic" file containing throw-away Linux. Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron "Microsoft: We make virii work!" ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
