pclinuxonline.com— PCLinux has a story about Instalinux, a web site that lets you create a "hands-free" install disk. You can choose from Fedora, SuSE, Debian or Ubuntu.
Jan 27, 2006View in Crawl 4
Dood. I have to disagree with some of you. This IS slick. This is just the first part. What we need now is for someone who gets his setup tweaked out the way he likes, to be able to submit his profile and get an ISO out of it, so he can set it up other places. That would be GREAT!
"I would love to see CentOS so could kickstart a load of servers and just make life easier however definitly nice. Dugg"Can't you just use kickstart? This is WAAAAAY more limited then kickstart. "Kickstart lets you automate most of a Red Hat Linux installation, including: * Language selection * Mouse configuration * Keyboard selection * Boot loader installation * Disk partitioning * Network configuration * NIS, LDAP, Kerberos, Hesiod, and Samba authentication * Firewall configuration * Package selection * X Window System configuration"
"looks nifty, but if you can't follow something as easy as say the Ubuntu installer, you're probably not ready to switch."Actually, Redhat's Anaconda installer is by far the easiest for Linux distros. Completely graphical, mouse-enabled, point-and-click GUI. Not even Windows offers that (not since the 95/98/ME days). Kind of similar to Mac OS X's installer.
nothing slick about it. total waste of a cd-r. most modern distributions are as easy if not easier than windows in some cases to install. hell freebsd is easy to install for a novice. this site is useless and just making an easy install more difficult. I can't imagine a newbie to linux finding this to be helpfull. two thumbs down.
linux install is probably where most of the curious masses put off installation and stick with windows (if they understood the download choice and procedure). anything that makes installation foolproof is good. linux OS need to get their act together. most novices dont know what x86 is.
prod_deityJan 27, 2006
sounds pretty cool, I might try it out sometime
noonebutmeJan 28, 2006
How's this any different then the Debian-Net Install?
arthursucksJan 28, 2006
Dood. I have to disagree with some of you. This IS slick. This is just the first part. What we need now is for someone who gets his setup tweaked out the way he likes, to be able to submit his profile and get an ISO out of it, so he can set it up other places. That would be GREAT!
mesostinkyJan 28, 2006
"I would love to see CentOS so could kickstart a load of servers and just make life easier however definitly nice. Dugg"Can't you just use kickstart? This is WAAAAAY more limited then kickstart. "Kickstart lets you automate most of a Red Hat Linux installation, including: * Language selection * Mouse configuration * Keyboard selection * Boot loader installation * Disk partitioning * Network configuration * NIS, LDAP, Kerberos, Hesiod, and Samba authentication * Firewall configuration * Package selection * X Window System configuration"
elranzerJan 28, 2006
"looks nifty, but if you can't follow something as easy as say the Ubuntu installer, you're probably not ready to switch."Actually, Redhat's Anaconda installer is by far the easiest for Linux distros. Completely graphical, mouse-enabled, point-and-click GUI. Not even Windows offers that (not since the 95/98/ME days). Kind of similar to Mac OS X's installer.
flappjaxxxJan 29, 2006
nothing slick about it. total waste of a cd-r. most modern distributions are as easy if not easier than windows in some cases to install. hell freebsd is easy to install for a novice. this site is useless and just making an easy install more difficult. I can't imagine a newbie to linux finding this to be helpfull. two thumbs down.
spacebar14Jan 29, 2006
OMFG PCLINUXOS!!! THE BEST DISTRO!!!+DIGG DIGG DIGG!!!
miaowFeb 5, 2006
linux install is probably where most of the curious masses put off installation and stick with windows (if they understood the download choice and procedure). anything that makes installation foolproof is good. linux OS need to get their act together. most novices dont know what x86 is.