Re: simple buildinstall question

[Matilainen Panu <panu matilainen nokia com>]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, ext rpjday wrote:

> 
>   now that i'm going to figure out how buildinstall works, one really
> trivial question -- what's it for?  i've already figured out what
> splitdistro is all about, but what's the purpose of buildinstall,
> in ten words or less?  thanks.  this is getting more complicated by
> the minute.

Buildinstall builds the installer :) You point it to the distro's RPM
directory and from the various packages in there (anaconda, X,
kernel-BOOT...) it creates all the disk and *std.img images the installer 
uses.

	- Panu -