[Yum] complete install of system using yum?

[seth vidal]

> First assume you have a new system (no previous install), and you've
> already setup the disks, mounted the partitions, bootstrapped RPM, setup
> networking, and manually installed only the rpms necessary to run yum
> (for example, this could be done from a boot cd, in a chrooted
> environment).
> 

actually you might be able to use yum --installroot from there to
install a very basic system - though I would recommend checkout
something like:

yum --installroot=/some/place groupinstall 'Base'
while your yum.conf points to a RHL9 repo with a yumgroups.xml file
matching comps.xml.


> Now, would it be possible to basically install this system completely
> from say a set of RedHat 9 RPMS, if you had a known set of packages you
> wanted to install (not necessarily using comps.xml). That way, yum could
> not only install the system (post bootstrap), but keep it up to date all
> over the network?

yes.


-sv