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Re: [TCLUG:4460] RedHat 5.2 + Errata + Gnome 1.0 + KDE + More Stuff(Really Re: kickstart)



What do you do whenever a machine needs to be rebuilt?  Do you have to
visit every individual machine with it's own individual kickstart
bootdisk?  200+ kickstart floppies seems to be a lot to keep track of.

Peter Lukas

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Mark A. Bentley wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Tim Wilson wrote:
> > 
> > I recently discovered the kickstart installation option in RH5.2. It
> > apparently allows a basic system on cloning workstations. This will be a
> > great tool for me with my computer lab if it works as advertised. Can
> > anyone vouch for the effectiveness of this type of install?
> > 
> 
> We're using kickstart here, and it works quite nicely.  There are some
> bugs/limitations with the basic kickstart install process.  For one, the
> network config part doesn't work correctly when using a BOOTP server.  If
> you use BOOTP to give the client its network config, it will ignore the
> static network definition, and assume that you want the machine to always
> boot with BOOTP.  RedHat knows about this, but they don't seem to be
> making kickstart a very high priority.  We've gotten around this problem by
> writing our own network config script, which is better anyway since it
> keeps the kickstart config file more general.
> 
> The way partitions are specified in the kickstart config file could use a
> lot of work too...its not very flexible.  
> 
> Even with these problems though, kickstart has turned out to be a big
> time-saver. Once the whole system is setup, it's just a matter of brining
> the floppy up to whatever machine you want to install, and boot with "linux
> ks".
> 
> --Mark
> 
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> Mark A Bentley                  Email:  bentlema@cs.umn.edu
> Systems Staff, CSci Dept
> University of Minnesota         URL:    http://www.cs.umn.edu/~bentlema/
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