Today I tried to Kickstart-install two SATA-based machines we have in for evaluation, booting them from USB memory sticks. Unfortunately it didn't work; something aborted about when our customization stage took over. (I didn't get to see what, because it promptly rebooted.)

One of my longer-term irritations with Anaconda is that you only get a binary choice of 'always reboot afterwards' or 'never reboot afterwards'; there is no option for 'reboot if all went well,

Last Friday I used the phrase'being nibbled to death by moths' to describe part of my day. Isuppose I should elaborate on that, lest people think that Toronto hassome really peculiar insects.

This is my way of summing up all of the routine five and ten andtwenty minute bits of system administrator work that come upthroughout the day. Reading a stream of email, making sure the backupscompleted, checking the logs, monitoring incoming spam streams,checking for important tech news (like security updates)