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<div class=Section1><pre><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span style='font-style:italic'> </span></i>Karl Kobata wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style='font-style:italic'> </span></i>><i><span style='font-style:italic'> Can anyone tell me if this can be done? If it can, please give me<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style='font-style:italic'> </span></i>><i><span style='font-style:italic'> instructions?<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> </span></i>rpm -qa<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> </span></i>or perhaps<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> </span></i>rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}\n"<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Can I take this formatted output and add it into the %packages section of my new kickstart file? I am assuming that using the kickstart GUI, the @development-tools for instance, added to the %packages section will load all packages grouped as “development-tools”. <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style='font-style:italic'> </span></i>><i><span style='font-style:italic'> Finally, where on the installation cd's would I place this kickstart file ?<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> </span></i>Usually put it on a network share or floppy disk, access it via<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> </span></i>HTTP or NFS or something.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Since I do not have a floppy, only a cdrom drive, is adding to a network share or http or nfs be for upgrading?<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>If for upgrading, how is the kickstart file launched?<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>If I am installing from “bare metal”, can I add this kickstart file to the install CD? If so where will I place this file?<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>nate<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font size=2
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>thanks very much.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>karl<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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