<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056001717-02112006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Driver disks (if needed) can be loaded from either the boot line, OR from the kickstart file. Of course, if you need them for the NIC, then you are going to have to load them from the boot line. This can be done with either a custom boot cd, via pxeboot, or manually entered on the boot line.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056001717-02112006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056001717-02112006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>You can do a lot in %pre to figure out different machines, drives, etc. dmidecode is useful to figure out which machine you are on. Doing this, you can have one kickstart for all servers.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056001717-02112006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056001717-02112006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>If you are going to pxeboot, you are going to need a dhcp server to assign the initial address. You can setup the dhcp server to only assign addresses to specific machines, and to assign a specific IP address. Your kickstart file can then make that IP address static.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>anthony parackel<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:08 PM<BR><B>To:</B> kickstart-list@redhat.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Kickstart setup for different hardware profiles - Help!<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Unfortunately, I’m assigned the task of creating a kickstart environment that contains the following machines:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dell 1850<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dell 1950<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dell 2850<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dell 2950<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Each system will have RHEL 4 loaded on it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m very new to linux(Junior SysAdmin) and I<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">need to come up with a way to overcome the following obstacles.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>1.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I need to be able to install specific NIC drivers that aren’t supported<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>eg. The 2950 won’t boot off the network because it doesn’t have the Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit ethernet driver(bnx2)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Should I setup an environment that will load the drivers off a CD?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or is this even possible with PXE? (Not sure how it works)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My guess is that I’d have to put ‘dd’ on a boot line.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is this correct?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">2.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each machine contains different hard drives(SATA, SCSI and SAS).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What would be the most<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>efficient way to load the drivers for these different types of controllers?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I plan on setting up a NFS source where these drivers can be loaded using <o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The “</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">—driverdisk” option.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would this be the best way?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .75in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">3.<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Since there are multiple hardware profiles, Is it best to have different ks.cfg files on a CD or a network share?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’d want to ideally assign static Ips<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">to each server instead of using DHCP. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Honestly, I’m very confused and intimidated by this task.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Can anybody please point down the right path?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">ANY advice is appreciated.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P> <HR SIZE=1> Cheap Talk? 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