Getting started

[Rudi Ahlers]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> 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
>
> _______________________________________________


Does it? I tried using the Fedora Core 7 kickstart GUI, but the package 
listing was different, so I didn't want to add / remove stuff which 
CentOS didn't have

Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers


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