Designing an operating system installer can be a fairly daunting and complex task. There are a myriad of ways to install a computer including installing a set of packages, a set of files (such as from a tarball) or even straight bit-for-bit disk imaging.
Ultimately, however, each one of those installation methods have a number of different pieces of common configuration data, such as network address settings, mouse and keyboard settings or even file partitioning schemes.
SysConfig.pm is not a system installer, but rather it is an object class with methods which provide a uniform way of describing how to install a system. Ultimately you can use one of the SysConfig classes such as SysConfig::Kickstart or SysConfig::XML which will describe all of the bits of system configuration necessary to get an installer up and running.
Written by Patrick Devine, (c) 2001
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This set of modules uses MakeMaker, so you can use the normal method of installing a perl module:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install