by Scott Harrison, Michigan State University
This project was done under the GPL-based auspices of www.lon-capa.org.
Anaconda as a concept manages the installation and upgrade software associated with a RedHat Linux installation. Documentation on customizing this approach was scarce and minimal. New releases of anaconda have been based off of a presumed "Rawhide" developmental release of RedHat Linux.
Since I am developing this for the "Zoot" runtime release of RedHat Linux, my approach involved tinkering around with the source code specific to Zoot. 8000+ lines of Python/Tk to be exact (not to mention the index-hashing synchronization commands and other "special formulae" associated with generating the iso9660 CD file image).
This document is meant as an informal record regarding my work. Hopefully this allows for quicker development of installation programs with successive releases of Linux even though the anaconda concept is rapidly evolving in the software development community it seems.