Kickstart Installation with Altiris

[Daniel Segall]

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KENNEDY VAN DAM Eric wrote:
> Hello everybody.
> First of all, this is my first post. I'm a belgian RHCE. I've worked on
> linux for 7 years now.
>  
> My boss asked me to prepare a RedHat Default Installation but this
> should be integrated in the Altiris Deployment Solution which is used here.
> My idea is to use the Altiris Server to schedule installations using
> PXE. The installation process would be Kickstart based.
>  
> Did someone have any experience about this ?
>  

My company unfortunately uses Altiris as well. I have about 10 different
Linux builds (ES3 & ES4, 32bit & 64bit) that I "manage" through Altiris.
 The builds are all common kickstart images that I house on a Linux
server running http & nfs. On the Altiris side, you copy the vmlinuz &
initrd from each distro, and create the "job" that simply boots that
kernel, and points to your kickstart. Since this was a setup that I took
over, it still uses DOS as the boot, but it works fine. It's just slow.
We don't actually use Altiris to do anything other than launch the
kickstart, and install the proliant tools on our hp servers. Everything
else is handled in the kickstart config for Linux builds.

- -Dan
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