[plug] Hacking the Redhat install

Tim Bowden BOWDENTJ at sesmailp1.curtin.edu.au
Mon Jun 10 14:07:45 WST 2002


Have you tried looking at the redhat kickstart option?  Instruction can be 
found in
'The Official Red Hat Linux Customization Guide' at
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/custom-guide/ch-kickstart2.html
  You should be able to automate just about everything in the install 
process.  I think
it also gives you the ability to run scripts at the end after the install 
is complete.

HTH,
Tim Bowden

>I am currently working on software for a client that is designed to run on
>Redhat Linux 7.2.  We have written a procedure on how to install the system
>onto a computer, beginning with formatting the hard-drive and going through
>the redhat 7.2 installation, through to installing the software we've
>developed.
>
>What we'd really like to do is to be able to write a single script that they
>could run that would install Redhat with all of our chosen configurations
>and then install our own software.
>
>I have been hunting around on the net trying to find out information as to
>how to go about hacking the redhat install process.  With slackware the



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