Anyone Built a LIVECD + Kickstart

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Don Hoover wrote:

> We have kickstart CD's we use that allow us to boot
> and install several versions of RHEL from the one CD
> using CGI's etc.   Bascially the idea is to have a
> single CD the admins can carry with them, boot off of
> to install any system using any of our currently
> supported versions of RHEL.
> 
> I was thinking it would be cool to add something like
> DamnSmall etc that they could use as a rescue toolkit
> to have handy too on that CD.  
> 
> After all I am using like 40MB right now just to
> basically have a isolinux directory.
> 
> 
> Just curious if anyone has done that yet.

We have a customized boot.iso with our own splash screen (text-only), 
be-latin1 keyboard mappings, serial console and with many isolinux labels 
(rescue images and kickstart commandline parameters for every system we 
have). Since we're not allowed to do DHCP/PXE installations, such an ISO 
allows us to have a single image that we can boot from as a "virtual" 
cdrom and either test the network/hardware or do the installation.

Unfortunately I haven't find a small rescue image that includes a recent 
2.6 kernel and wide network support. RIP with network is already 30MB 
(takes a long time to load over the network) and none of them have 
tcptraceroute functionality (which is important to be able to test 
and pinpoint firewall configuration problems).

tcptraceroute in busybox is an essential feature for us, I'd donate money 
to have someone write it.

Kind regards,
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