Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

[Matthew Dalton <matthewd@research.canon.com.au>]

David Z Maze wrote:
> JH> Autoinstall (Red Hat's kickstart)
> JH>     This is also something fairly important.  We need this as we do a
> JH>     lot of mass installs.
> 
> This isn't quite there.  IANADD, but my guess is that this
> functionality will probably appear (via APT and debconf) in a few
> months.  The groundwork for this is still being written.

I beleive it is possible to install a Debian system, configure/customise
it, and then repackage the deb packages using the customised files on
the system instead of the original default ones, using some provided
tools.

Can anyone confirm this? I have not tried it myself, but I vaguely
remember reading it somewhere in the Slink documentation.

This feature would certainly go a long way towards what Jeremy is after.

Matthew