I had to deal with an installer written in python and several in Java... IMHO, Java would be a better language for this and you could build off some nice OSS installers that already exist (such as IzPack). Just my 2 cents :)
On 1/30/06, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@commandprompt.com> wrote: Hi,
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 22:04 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> BTW, gcc is not installed on by default AFAIR.
>
> Wow, how do you update the kernel each week? :)
>
> More seriously, I know under FreeBSD, one of the first things that gets
> done after installing is to customize the kernel to get rid of all the
> 'cruft' part of the generic kernel, I take it that this isn't something
> that ppl do with Linux?
On systems that have a packaging system, you are supposed to download
and install vendor kernels. There is "no need" to build the kernel.
However, if you want to build, then you need to install development
environment.
On my RHEL boxes, I do never ever recompile the kernel since Red Hat
does not provide support if I do so :)
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