Hi,<div><br></div><div>I'm looking for "the best" way to do a custom installation from CD/DVD media.</div><div><br></div><div>My company sells hardware appliances with our software pre-loaded. Doing so requires that we ship an ISO installation media to the hardware manufacturer who installs it onto the boxes, then ships them out.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We're currently using a solution that will no longer work for us going forward, and we would like to switch to a CentOS based OS with some of our software installed on top, with various configuration changes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What's the best way to do this?</div><div><br></div><div>I've looked at Kickstart, and it looks pretty good -- probably will work perfectly for us assuming my initial glance-through is correct.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is there another method I should consider?</div><div><br></div><div>If not -- using Kickstart, how do I add some custom software? Should I create RPMs and add them to the CentOS installation tree? I want everything to be on the media, not downloaded from a yum repository.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>-d</div><div><br></div>