For example, these power features are built into
the Anaconda installer:
Network installs??”After booting the install process, the actual Fedora or RHEL distribution
can be on a network server that is accessible via a Web server (http), FTP server
(ftp), or UNIX file server (NFS).
Kickstart installs??”It??™s not so bad to sit there and click through the answers to run
the installation of one Fedora system, but if you??™re doing dozens or hundreds of installs
(especially on similar computers), automating that task can be a major time-saver.
Anaconda supports kickstart installs, for which you use a preconfigured kickstart file to
answer the questions that come up during a Fedora or RHEL installation. If you answer
all the questions in the file, you can launch the installation and have it run from start to
finish without you in attendance.
Upgrades??”With an existing Fedora system installed, Anaconda enables you to easily
upgrade to a newer Fedora system. A lot of nice features for saving backups of configuration
files and logging the upgrade activities are built into that process. During an upgrade,
Anaconda takes into consideration any dependency issues, so the upgraded software
packages will have all the libraries and commands that the features in those packages need.
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