Getting started

[Michael DeHaan]

Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>>> Shabazian, Chip wrote:
>>>>> You could start with the presentation I gave at last years 
>>>>> LinuxWorld:
>>>>> http://www.shabazian.com/lw2007.pdf
>>>>>  
>>>> +1.
>>>>
>>>> My biggest tip is to "yum install system-config-kickstart" (which I 
>>>> believe Chip mentions).
>>>>
>>>> It can help guide you through the install questions and builds a 
>>>> kickstart along the way.   That's a good way to see what
>>>> the various options are (and is a bit easier than reading some of 
>>>> the docs for the first couple of times -- eventually you
>>>> probably won't need the tool).
>>>>
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>>>
>>> That's a good tip, but for people who don't have X installed (for 
>>> example setting up servers), the GUI based kickstart config tool 
>>> won't work. I also had to go through this exercise but soon found a 
>>> lot of sites on the net with good sample kickstart files. One thing 
>>> I want to add though. If it's possible, setup sometimes like XEN / 
>>> VMWare / Virtualbox / QMU / etc to test the CD ISO. It's a pain in 
>>> the neck to first create the CD ISO with makeisofs, then burn it to 
>>> CD, and then putting it into my test machine to test it.
>>
>> True!   You can of course run system-config-kickstart on any box 
>> though, so as long as you have at least one Linux box running X, you 
>> can use that :)
>>
>> With respect to the other suggestions, cobbler happens to both make 
>> installing Xen/KVM very easy for repeated installs as you tweak 
>> kickstarts and also includes sample base kickstarts :)
>>
>> --Michael
>>
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>
> Does it? I tried using the Fedora Core 7 kickstart GUI, but the 
> package listing was different, so I didn't want to add / remove stuff 
> which CentOS didn't have
>
> Kind Regards
> Rudi Ahlers

It's close enough.   Just do a base package-set and add what you need later.

The main change in kickstart between versions is the addition of being 
able to use yum repos at install time -- which is availabe in FC6/F7 
(which is "Fedora 7" no longer "Fedora Core", BTW) and later, and 
therefore not in EL4.