[Server-devel] New XS technique: customising your installer easily

[Martin Langhoff]

If you are going to install... 500 XSs, and you want to add some
content (static HTML, images, PDFs...), maybe add an RPM and tweak a
config file here or there, you can do it easily by following the
recipe here:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#Making_customisations_to_your_install_process

Make sure you read the whole section about USB installs, as you'll
probably need to apply a fix to the isolinux startup line.

Old RH/Fedora hands will know that you can achieve the same (and
perhaps easier) using an anaconda "network install". Which is a good
alternative if you are setting up all your XSs in a central location,
and you can setup an "installation-server".

Our deployments don't usually have that luxury -- and in-the-field
reinstalls happen quite a bit. Hence the focus on making it work for
USB.

cheers,



martin
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