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Is this do-able? (Kickstart?)
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| Gwen Morse 2006-09-20, 1:14 am |
| I'm not certain how do-able this is.
I have a laptop on which I'd like to reinstall FC5. Basically, I've
made a number of small hardware changes and I'd like to resolve some
niggling system issues with a clean install. However, I don't want to
lose my existing collection of packages. I've been reading about
Kickstart, and it appears to pretty much allow me to do what I want --
go through a fresh install with a pre-selected list of packages.
What I'm wondering is if it can be integrated with yum to pull those
packages from different repos, rather than using a single specific
"source machine" to host the packages.
Alternatively, it may not be that I even really "want" to use
kickstart, there may be a simpler method (something like using RPM to
list all the installed packages to a text file,then doing a basic
install off CD/DVD, and _then_ doing a really big "yum install <list
of packages from target file>". But, that might create some sort of
dependency nightmare.
I'm perfectly happy with a 2-3 step install process. What I'm trying
to avoid is "having" to have a separate home box to act as the source
installer.
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| Sandgroper 2006-09-20, 7:14 am |
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"Gwen Morse" <goldmooneachna@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:s571h2tl33k7mtc09il6374ptc0sm68gfm@
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> I'm not certain how do-able this is.
>
> I have a laptop on which I'd like to reinstall FC5. Basically, I've
> made a number of small hardware changes and I'd like to resolve some
> niggling system issues with a clean install. However, I don't want to
> lose my existing collection of packages. I've been reading about
> Kickstart, and it appears to pretty much allow me to do what I want --
> go through a fresh install with a pre-selected list of packages.
>
> What I'm wondering is if it can be integrated with yum to pull those
> packages from different repos, rather than using a single specific
> "source machine" to host the packages.
>
> Alternatively, it may not be that I even really "want" to use
> kickstart, there may be a simpler method (something like using RPM to
> list all the installed packages to a text file,then doing a basic
> install off CD/DVD, and _then_ doing a really big "yum install <list
> of packages from target file>". But, that might create some sort of
> dependency nightmare.
>
> I'm perfectly happy with a 2-3 step install process. What I'm trying
> to avoid is "having" to have a separate home box to act as the source
> installer.
This might be of interest to you , if you have a DVD version of FC5 , then
you can use it to create a local repository and then use Pirute to check for
the already installed packages and do the install/ updates from the DVD.
Pirute will list all the installed packages and you will be able to install
the packages from the local repository of the DVD.
Mind you , there could be some dependency issues if you have already done
some Yum updates on some packages.
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Creating a DVD repository
in folder /etc/yum.repos.d.... copy three file fedora-core.repo,
fedora-extras.repo and fedora-updates.repo... keep these files in safe
place... some other folder.
now edit first file ----> fedora-core.repo
under [core]
change these lines only and keep rest file same......
name=Fedora Core DVD
baseurl=file:///media/disk
enable=1
in fedora-extras.repo and fedora-updates.repo
just change only baseurl line under [extras] and [updates]
baseurl=file:///media/disk
thats it... now u can install packages thru DVD...
but to use yum.... u have to replace these three files with originals u
copied earlier....
keep both copies... n overright /etc/yum.repos.d according to
requirement.........
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| Kevin Snodgrass 2006-09-20, 1:13 pm |
| Gwen Morse wrote:
> kickstart, there may be a simpler method (something like using RPM to
> list all the installed packages to a text file,then doing a basic
Already there. See /var/log/rpmpkgs.
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