---------------------------------------- > Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:34:41 -0400 > From: tom.horsley@xxxxxxx > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Custom installation of Fedora > > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:13:28 -0700 > Markus Kesaromous wrote: > >> Is it too much to ask to add the Install Everything button for Fedora???? > > Apparently yes: The word "everything" triggers some violent conditioned > response in the anaconda developers for some reason. (Something > like "Cleaning Lady" in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and the old vaudeville > sketches it copied :-). > > I seem to recall we did once get them to concede that a button > with a label something like: > > [Select all optional packages in all package groups] > > might be a reasonable addition, but I haven't seen even that > button appear yet. > > Not to fear, however, there is a woefully underdocumented alternative: > > Click on just one package to get focus in the right window, then > hit Ctrl-A - that will select everything in that group. > > Then right click the mouse and you'll get a popup menu with > one option being "select all options packages". > > So rather than 10,000 mouse clicks, you only need a few 10s > of mouse clicks. (And, of course, the omniscience to realize > it is possible). > > If there is any way to get the popup menu via keyboard > rather than mouse, I have thus far lacked the omniscience > to discover it. > > -- Thank you Tom, As I stated in my previous response to Bruno Wolf, I would love to know of a way to do this to 20-30 systems per day via a kickstart server so I do not even have to interact with the machine other than boot it via the kickstart CD or floppy and let it rip ... I yet have to see a kickstart automatic menu that comes with each Fedora release to make this workable. A kickstart ISO image for installing all options for the release would be great! Cheers, MK _________________________________________________________________ Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for you. http://www.bing.com/cashback?form=MSHYCB&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MSHYCB_BackToSchool_Cashback_BTSCashback_1x1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
