Re: [Maybe Off-topic] Production Installations

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:23:46 -0300


In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.981022205050.3705A-100000@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk>,
Riley
Williams writes:
+-----
| It exists in RedHat 5.0 and 5.1 - look up "KickStart" on the initial
| menu. However, there's virtually no documentation regarding it...if
| you can figure out how to use it, you're better than me...
+--->8

I figured it out by studying the source.

Bottom line is, it's not worth the effort. It's all or nothing (your
machines have to have the *exact* same hardware configuration, down to the
size/number/location of drives and partitions), and a number of install
options simply aren't available from KickStart.

Instead, I added an extra package to our install set. You configure the
disks manually, do an "install everything", and this additional package
installs a boot-time script which revises the system configuration and
removes itself. (Which turned out to be horrifically ugly....)

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brandon s. allbery	[os/2][linux][solaris][japh]	 allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator	     [WAY too many hats]	   allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering					 KF8NH
carnegie mellon university

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