Kickstart and roles

[Mike McGrath]

Paul Nasrat wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 22:47 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
>   
>> So I've been kicking around this idea for a while and wanted to see
>> what others thought.  Who knows maybe someone will be interested in
>> helping.
>>
>> This may already exist so if it does please let me know but I would
>> like to setup a bunch of kickstart scripts for server and workstation
>> roles using only official Fedora software.  For example, lets say
>> someone wants a xen workstation.  We could setup a kickstart script
>> with everything they need, only the minimals and at the end, yum
>> update, configure what we can and on reboot, that user has a working
>> xen machine.
>>     
>
> For the kickstart side you should checkout pykickstart that's a great
> start, as we now have a library for reading/writing ks files.
>
> Paul
>   
Thats a good idea, I guess I kind of envision this as being a way to A) 
showcase what Fedora's become using only Fedora software.  And B) allow 
others to have easy access to things like an email server or a Xen 
workstation.

    -Mike