Hello, Note: The MySQL installation is resolved and has been placed on zaphod. Now, onto the GUI/text-interface for LON-CAPA computer installation. There was very little documentation on all of this, but after a few modified anaconda install interfaces, I think I've figured out much of the basics which I'm describing so you can know what is going on. There are 7556 lines of python which control user input, hardware detection, package processing, and other functions of RedHat 6.2 installation. These 7556 lines of python are distributed over 22 python module files. comps.py fstab.py gettext_rh.py gzread.py harddrive.py image.py installclass.py isys.py iutil.py kbd.py kickstart.py lilo.py mouse.py pcmcia.py raid.py simpleconfig.py syslogd.py text.py todo.py translate.py urlinstall.py xf86config.py These 7556 lines of python are buried away in duplicate form in the following two files on the RedHat CD: RedHat/base/netstg2.img & Redhat/base/hdstg2.img These .img files are gzipped ext2 loopback filesystems which can be mounted (mount -o loop) after decompression (gzip -dc). Within these filesystems, there is a usr/lib/anaconda.cgz file which, when unzipped (gzip -dc) provides a cpio file. This cpio file has contents that can be extracted with the cpio -idumv command. After manipulating the extracted contents, an updated gzipped ext2 filesystem must be recreated by following the steps in reverse: * go to the directory right above the generated extraction directory * use this command; find anaconda | cpio --quiet -H crc -o | gzip -9 > anaconda.cgz * place anaconda.cgz on mounted ext2 image * unmount image * compress image (gzip -9) * place image back on the RedHat CD image you are developing. Quite a number of steps, but believe me, it works just fine. The 22 anaconda python modules are described as best I can by looking at the source code and the occasional comments distributed in the source code: comps.py - reads in the RedHat/base/comps file to calculate package groupings and dependencies necessary to produce the type of RedHat system selected by the user (in the original CD; Gnome, KDE, Server, customized) fstab.py - evaluates, detects, and partitions the hard drive installation media present on the computer that is being installed onto gettext_rh.py - use GNU gettext message catalogs for both graphical-based installation GUIs and text-based UIs. Provides algorithm for all those scrolling lists of choices you see during a RedHat install gzread.py - a python script for reading and writing gzipped files harddrive.py - "install method for disk image installs (CD & NFS)" image.py - "install method for disk image installs (CD & NFS)", looks like generic API without the details of harddrive.py installclass.py - this is a public interface class. RedHat recommends that ISVs (like us) customize installs by creating a new derived type of this class. This class appears to set up the installation steps that the user is to be taken through. isys.py - basic hardware detection of disks, smp, pci devices, network cards iutil.py - hardware detection of CPU architecture, clock configuration, utilities for file installations and test executions (such as X-windows testing) kbd.py - coordinates keyboard selection and character mapping kickstart.py - coordinates skipping of all installation steps so as to do a fully automatic install lilo.py - sets up the computer being installed on to be bootable on a loaded linux kernel on the boot record mouse.py - sets up mouse configuration pcmcia.py - works with pcmcia devices and probing raid.py - driver for redundant arrays of identical disk simpleconfig.py - generic data description of manipulating a config file on the system syslogd.py - logs events on the system during the installation text.py - encodes the presentation of text-based user interfaces for an installation (as opposed to graphical-based) todo.py - an aggregated listing of various things the installation has "to do" translate.py - presents a cataloguing of different foreign language phrases to allow for non-English-based installations urlinstall.py - installation method for http-based network installs xf86config.py - (opposite of text.py) encodes the presentation of graphical-based user interfaces for an installation So, in conclusion, the scripts that I will modify are xf86config.py, text.py, installclass.py, comps.py, and urlinstall.py. -Scott