<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Hi<o:p></o:p> We would like to upgrade our Kickstart infrastructure to make it better and I am looking for some suggestions.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> What we have is a menu based Kickstart infrastructure on running Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 (EL4), where you have the boot.msg file and the corresponding default file all installed from the system-config-netboot rpm. Then I have the tftp server, the webserver serving the ks.cfg files, RPM’s etc.<o:p></o:p> And then I have the post install script that run in the %post section of the ks.cfg file which mounts the NFS partitions where I have all my post-install scripts and files.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> We have been using this Kickstart infrastructure for about a year and a half now and it’s been serving our purpose, but the menus have become a lot larger than it was and now when I pxeboot the client the menu scrolls off the screen and there is no way to do a page-up/page-down to see what’s on top/bottom.<o:p></o:p> We have tried to trim down the menu but now since our infrastructure has gotten a lot larger it’s difficult. Then when we want to have both EL4 and EL5 it would be difficult as well.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I have heard of “cobbler” but I would like some suggestions as to which is the best alternative to this menu based Kickstart that I am using here.<o:p></o:p> Also this Kickstart infrastructure that I have here seems to be a basic one and we are ready to explore some advanced methods of Kickstarting our servers<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Any suggestions would be appreciated.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> # mukarram<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>