[olug] Differences between SuSE and RH

Obi-Wan obiwan at jedi.com
Fri May 9 17:51:33 UTC 2008


> Something that hasn't been mentioned yet: RHEL uses Kickstart instead
> of AutoYAST.  I hear tell it's not as powerful, but it does everything
> I need it to do.
> 
> You'll run into a bunch of little quirks, too, but you can adjust to
> most of them pretty easily.

I'm not familiar with AutoYAST, but I really love kickstart.  It took
a fair bit of time to configure everything the way I wanted it (lots
of trial and error), but now that it's running, it makes setting up a
new server as easy as typing one command and walking away for 30 minutes.

-- 
Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com
   The stuff of earth competes for the allegiance I owe only to the
     Giver of all good things, so if I stand, let me stand on the
       promise that You will pull me through.  -- Rich Mullins



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