"Kenneth E. Lussier" said: >On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 13:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Personally, I beginning to think it's far easier to just install a >> base OS (similar to what you get with commercial UNIXes), then do >> something like apt-get or rpm-up2date to install new, non-OS stuff. > >This is what I have been doing for quite some time. I have one Debian CD >that I use to do a bare minimum install. Then I have an options file on >a floppy that I created using `dpkg --get-selections`. When the >selections are loaded on the new system (using dpkg --put-selections), I >do an apt-get and go home for the night ;-) I haven't used RH since 6.2, >so I don't know if there is a way to do the same automation with rpm. Is
Of course. Mandrake has rpmdrake / MandrakeUpdate. You can tell it to look at a mirror instead of CDs. And there's Ximian's red-carpet. I find it's better then rpmdrake. Of course, I don't want the Ximian desktop on my servers..... >rpm-get functional yet? -- ------- Tom Buskey ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
