On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Troy Dawson wrote: > The Scientific Linux developers are pleased to announce our "Very Alpha > Release" of Scientific Linux 5.0 This looks very promising. Great job. Kickstart installation worked. The installation as well as the resulting system seem to behave just like EL5beta2. [...] > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > /Client /Server /VT /Workstation /Cluster /ClusterStorage > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TUVv5b2 consists of 2 cd sets, Server and Client. Each cd set has a group > of directories which contain the actual rpms. On the Client cd this consists > of Client,Workstation and VT. On the Server cd this consists of Server,VT, > Cluster, ClusterStorage. The VT directory contains the same rpms on each cd. > The Cluster, ClusterStorage and Workstation directories do not have any > common rpms. The Client and Server directories contain many common rpms along > with many unique rpms. I have combined the 2 cd sets into 1 big tree. If a > rpm is in multiple directories I have made it via a hard link to save disk > space > > We are not sure if we will keep this big tree of directories or not. It has > the advantage as having the same tree structure as RHELv5b2. Now why would that be an advantage ;-) Maybe I just don't like it because it's unfamiliar. Still, I don't like it. > To install the rpms in /VT /Workstation /Cluster /ClusterStorage you > need to enter V for VT and W for Workstation and C for Cluster and S for > ClustorStorage at the "key" prompt in the installer. This is code from > TUVv5b2. It will be changed in our next beta. > So to install all of these you would put in > > VWCS > > at the "keys" prompt Hasn't this changed with beta2 and you now need an "installation number"? NB here's how I do unintended ks installs: key --skip repo --name=SL5 --baseurl=http://.../SL/5rolling/i386/SL/RPMS %packages --resolvedeps @core autofs ... Where I've 'cp -al'd all RPMS into SL/RPMS and ran createrepo there. Cheers, Stephan -- Stephan Wiesand DESY - DV - Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany