Re: Kickstart partition question

[Christopher Malek <cmalek caltech edu>]

HN: Nguyen Hang

NH> In that case, does Jumpstart work on Linux box?  

You lost me again.  Use Kickstart for RedHat Linux, Jumpstart for
Solaris (and use Roboinst for IRIX, etc.).

Kickstart and Jumpstart are installation methods and are intimately tied
to the OS.   They are both simply another aspect of the normal manual
installation process.  In both cases, you still need the installation
media available in some form.

For both, you typically start from bare metal, and install the OS in
an automated fashion by supplying the answers (in a file) to all the
questions the normal OS installation program would normally ask you.
The reason this is a good thing is that you can make completely automated
installs, from bare metal to fully working system with little to no
human interaction.

You can configigure both Kickstart and Jumpstart will run a shell script
(you can also use perl in the case of Kickstart), if you want, at the
end of the install process.  You can do nearly anything you want in that
shell script.  Including syncing data back and forth (via NFS mounting
remote directories, rsync, ftp, wget, whatever).

Chris

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