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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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>Number:         1572
>Category:       junk
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>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gnats-admin
>State:          closed
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep  5 16:00:03 PDT 1996
>Closed-Date:    Sat Sep 21 05:01:04 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:  Tue Nov 27 19:22:51 PST 2001
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State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: gpalmer 
State-Changed-When: Sat Sep 21 05:01:04 PDT 1996 
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Junk (or so it seems) 
>Unformatted:
> It would be nice if sysinstall could pull certain defaults out of a
> configuration file that was stored in the memory file system.  That
> way, one could create custom boot floppies that automagicly installed
> systems using locally desired defaults.

I had this in 2.1 (the "load configuration file" option at the bottom
of the menu) but nobody ever even asked me how it worked, much less
showed an inclination to use it.  I used to use it to install my test
laptop "hands off", without having to answer any questions after chosing
the script file.

In any event, the stuff I'm working on right now will allow you to
very easily customize the install in a number of ways, including
changing the questions which are asked.  Rather than bring scripts
back into sysinstall, I think I'm just going to proceed forward with
what I'm doing in setup.

					Jordan
