Kickstart and roles
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org
Fri Apr 14 16:42:23 UTC 2006
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
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