Getting started

[Michael DeHaan]

Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>
>
> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>> Shabazian, Chip wrote:
>>> You could start with the presentation I gave at last years LinuxWorld:
>>> http://www.shabazian.com/lw2007.pdf
>>>  
>> +1.
>>
>> My biggest tip is to "yum install system-config-kickstart" (which I 
>> believe Chip mentions).
>>
>> It can help guide you through the install questions and builds a 
>> kickstart along the way.   That's a good way to see what
>> the various options are (and is a bit easier than reading some of the 
>> docs for the first couple of times -- eventually you
>> probably won't need the tool).
>>
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>
> That's a good tip, but for people who don't have X installed (for 
> example setting up servers), the GUI based kickstart config tool won't 
> work. I also had to go through this exercise but soon found a lot of 
> sites on the net with good sample kickstart files. One thing I want to 
> add though. If it's possible, setup sometimes like XEN / VMWare / 
> Virtualbox / QMU / etc to test the CD ISO. It's a pain in the neck to 
> first create the CD ISO with makeisofs, then burn it to CD, and then 
> putting it into my test machine to test it.

True!   You can of course run system-config-kickstart on any box though, 
so as long as you have at least one Linux box running X, you can use that :)

With respect to the other suggestions, cobbler happens to both make 
installing Xen/KVM very easy for repeated installs as you tweak 
kickstarts and also includes sample base kickstarts :)

--Michael