[WBEL-users] skip anaconda? what would i be missing?

[Edward Rudd]

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 09:46, gregwm wrote:
> i'll bet there's a list of tweaks done by anaconda.  i'll bet the distro
> relies on those tweaks.  is there anywhere a neat list of whatever
> anaconda does to the filesystem other than install the RPMs?
> 
anaconda partitions and formats the harddrive.. copies over the initial
disk image (files necessary to run rpm), then installs the selected
packages.  and installs grub (grub-install), and pre-configures the
machine (networking setup, hostname setup, language etc..)

So you can do by w/o using the installer and just install the rpms. you
just have to make sure grub gets installed on the MBR, and then run the
configuration utils to setup the system (ie. redhat-config-network).

anaconda doesn't do any "tweaking" just assigning the configuration
settings you chose during the installation.

> tia,
> greg
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