Kickstart setup for different hardware profiles - Help!

[Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer)]

1. If you're using the EL4 update 4 then you shouldn't need a driver
disk.  Anaconda should load the right NIC driver.
 
2. SATA and SCSI (and probably SAS - I've not used them) report as SCSI
devices, sda, sdb, sdc, etc.  Anaconda should get the driver right for
these controllers as well.
 
3. I support Sun Ultra40 (Opteron based workstation), HP xw6200, xw9300
and xw9400 workstations with a single ks.cfg.  The differences between
the machines are compensated for in my %pre script.  I do almost all my
kickstarts from NFS shares.
 
My advice is to read the doco on the redhat site.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/pdf/rhel-sag
-en.pdf  All the info is there.
 
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[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of anthony parackel
	Sent: Thursday, 2 November 2006 5:08 AM
	To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
	Subject: Kickstart setup for different hardware profiles - Help!
	
	
	Hi All,
	 
	Unfortunately, I'm assigned the task of creating a kickstart
environment that contains the following machines:
	 
	Dell 1850
	Dell 1950
	Dell 2850
	Dell 2950
	 
	Each system will have RHEL 4 loaded on it.  I'm very new to
linux(Junior SysAdmin) and I
	need to come up with a way to overcome the following obstacles.
	 
	     1.  I need to be able to install specific NIC drivers that
aren't supported
	 
	     eg. The 2950 won't boot off the network because it doesn't
have the Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit ethernet driver(bnx2)
	 
	      Should I setup an environment that will load the drivers
off a CD?  Or is this even possible with PXE? (Not sure how it works)
	      My guess is that I'd have to put 'dd' on a boot line.  Is
this correct?
	 
	2.    Each machine contains different hard drives(SATA, SCSI and
SAS).  What would be the most
	 efficient way to load the drivers for these different types of
controllers?  I plan on setting up a NFS source where these drivers can
be loaded using 
	 The "-driverdisk" option.  Would this be the best way?
	 
	3.       Since there are multiple hardware profiles, Is it best
to have different ks.cfg files on a CD or a network share?  I'd want to
ideally assign static Ips
	to each server instead of using DHCP. 
	 
	Honestly, I'm very confused and intimidated by this task.  Can
anybody please point down the right path?
	 
	ANY advice is appreciated.
	 
	Thanks in advance,
	 

	
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