Re: rhel dvds

[Kevin Jackson <uksysadmin gmail com>]

I'd invest the time in getting Kickstart working.  If you've taken a
look at it and decided against it, then you just need a Kick(start) in
the right direction!

What I've done where I work is set up a Kickstart server and scripts
with the ability to create the PXE config files and modify any
Kickstart OS templates - specific to the server being installed.
These templates are pretty generic - describing the OS, then in the
%post section I download and run a script which takes some parameters
(set when I run a script to configure the Kickstart file for that
host).  This then allows me to customise the box as necessary.
So I have the same base OS, and then put extra packages on according
to the parameters in the script.  It's worked very successfully.
The scripts are very generic - I'll see if they are generic and tidy
enough to make available if interested.

Kev

On 5/25/05, Greg Swift <greg netops gvtc com> wrote:
> 
> now if you do a minimal kickstart file, or have some recommended
> resources, I would be very interested and thankful.  I will probably get
> around to it one of these days anyways.. just have a lot of projects
> right now, and that hasnt made it very high up on the list as of yet.
> 
> thanks
> 
> -greg
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