After a warning screen about what we are going to do, a list of most of the installation steps is displayed. For each step is associated a two-entry menu choice:
: choose this if you want to reuse the choices you made during the manual installation for the automated installation;
: choose this if you prefer to manually reconfigure this step during the automated installation.
After clicking
again, the boot floppy disk will be created with the following characteristics:the installation method (from CD-ROM, via NFS, FTP, etc.) is the same as the one used during the installation of the machine currently worked on;
all the steps marked as
will be replayed with all choices set to the ones made during the installation of the current machine;all the steps marked as
will have to be manually configured during the installation;for security reasons, the partitioning and formatting steps will have to be done manually.