Fedora Legacy 9.0 direct install -- how?

[Erik Espinoza]

I think it's easier to just drop all the new rpms into the repo, and
genhdlist. Either way, I wouldn't do RH9 when Tao/WB/Caos all have
filled it's spot after EOL.

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:05:32 -0700, David Kewley <kewley at caltech.edu> wrote:
> dhesi-fedora-legacy at rahul.net wrote on Monday 16 August 2004 19:00:
> > Is there any good method of directly installing the Fedora-Legacy-
> > updated RedHat linux 9.0 on a new machine?  It appears that the only
> > published install procedure is to install RedHat Linux 9.0 as
> > originally released, and and then update it with the Fedora Legacy
> > updates.  This causes a lot of outdated RPMS to be installed and then
> > replaced by newer ones -- such a waste of effort.
> 
> What I do with kickstart installations is to only install the Base group
> with kickstart, then update all those packages in the %post using yum.
> Then upon reboot, a script runs (which was set up in kickstart %post)
> that uses yum to install all the other packages I want.
> 
> This way, the newly-installed OS never runs except with the latest
> packages installed.
> 
> David
> 
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