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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Spike,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Well said. I accomplish this in a similar way except I PXEboot to load the kernel and initrd, and then kickstart the OS installer in non-interactive install.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I try to use a generic as possible KS files, and then once the install is accomplished the host shows up in Foreman and I select the most appropriate Puppet
host group <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">#RHEL-6.6 Workstation PuppetClient<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">LABEL RHEL-6.6 (64-bit) Workstation PuppetClient<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">MENU PASSWD HASHEDPASSWD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">KERNEL rhel/x86_64/6/vmlinuz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">APPEND ks=http://URL/ks/rhel6-workstation-puppetclient.ks initrd=rhel/x86_64/6/initrd.img ramdisk_size=10000 ksdevice=eth0 ip=dhcp<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Then in my KS file:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">url --url
<a href="http://URL/rhel/6/x86_64/6.6/os">http://URL/rhel/6/x86_64/6.6/os</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">-Brandon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Spike White<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 12, 2014 8:17 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> kickstart-list@redhat.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: RHEL6.5 provisioning without DHCP (Ess, Brandon)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Brandon,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With Dell DRACs, you can "attach virtual media". I.e., either a CD image<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">or a disk image. I'm guessing HP's remote access controller is similar.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Using that, the original post (Frantisek) can do the CD-based install he wants.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I.e., have the image on his local Windows or Linux desktop, attach that virtual<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">media via DRAC.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We customarily do that for 10 - 100 servers. I'm guessing a good engineer<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">can image 5 servers per hour -- if the ks.cfg has all answers, so the install<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">is non-interactive.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There are some limitations. Because virtual media attachment is dog-slow. It's best to:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> 1. minimize the image size as much as possible.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> 2. have your desktop in a close network location to the servers you're imaging.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For this second reason, we usually maintain "jump" servers in different geographic<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">regions. For instance, when I'm imaging a server in Brazil, I'll remote (Windows)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">or XRDP (Linux) into a Brazil jump server, image from there.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If by "large number of servers" is meant a few hundred or more, the original<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">poster will either need PXE or a large array of heads-down engineers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Spike<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> From: "Ess, Brandon" <<a href="mailto:Brandon.Ess@atk.com">Brandon.Ess@atk.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> To: Discussion list about Kickstart <<a href="mailto:kickstart-list@redhat.com">kickstart-list@redhat.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> Cc:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:01:15 +0000<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> Subject: RE: RHEL6.5 provisioning without DHCP<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> Good luck. If you find a way to remotely provision a server without PXE (PXE requires DHCP) let us know.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> If they are Dell Servers there is IDRAC. While I’ve never used the Enterprise features, it does support bare-metal provisioning but if I remember correctly the provisioning service is just a rebranded Cobbler service….which requires DHCP.<o:p></o:p></p>
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