The RedHat Kickstart install alleviates all your sendmail woes. I use the
Kickstart install method on our network here and it's great! I have one
floppy that I use for all our servers: I stick in the floppy and walk
away. No sendmail, all qmail.
It works just as well installing from the local CD-ROM. I have never used
it for an upgrade but I'm sure the same lines I used for removing sendmail
in the install would work the same for upgrade. You have full control
after the install. It's like typing in commands at the bash prompt on the
second VT, but it's all automated.
If anyone is interested I have a big slew of Kickstart files. I think it's
the best way to install, it's probably just as good for upgrading aswell.
jason.
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Mate Wierdl wrote:
>
> I haven't yet tried this, but I believe you can get RH to stop throwing
> sendmail at you during the install simply by creating an empty RPM, naming
> it sendmail, and setting it's version to 99.99, or something like that. I
> do not believe that RH's installer overwrites high-versioned RPMs.
>
> Well, I have not tried to do this with sendmail proper, but I had
> nmh-1.0 installed, and it got replaced by 6.0's nmh-0.27 during the upgrade.
> Sad.
>
> Mate
>
