Suggestions for a better kickstart infrastructure

[masaiah kannan]

Hi,

         i want create Kickstart DVD give me instructions from the top to
bottom.
i do not have any experiance on this please do the need full.


Regards,
Masaiah.




On 10/17/08, Mukarram Syed <muksyed at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>  Hi
>
> We would like to upgrade our Kickstart infrastructure to make it better and
> I am looking for some suggestions.
>
>
>
> What we have is a menu based Kickstart infrastructure on running Oracle
> Enterprise Linux 4 (EL4), where you have the boot.msg file and the
> corresponding default file all installed from the system-config-netboot
> rpm.  Then I have the tftp server, the webserver serving the ks.cfg files,
> RPM's etc.
>
> And then I have the post install script that run in the %post section of
> the ks.cfg file which mounts the NFS partitions where I have all my
> post-install scripts and files.
>
>
>
> We have been using this Kickstart infrastructure for about a year and a
> half now and it's been serving our purpose, but the menus have become a lot
> larger than it was and now when I pxeboot the client the menu scrolls off
> the screen and there is no way to do a page-up/page-down to see what's on
> top/bottom.
>
> We have tried to trim down the menu but now since our infrastructure has
> gotten a lot larger it's difficult.  Then when we want to have both EL4 and
> EL5 it would be difficult as well.
>
>
>
> I have heard of "cobbler" but I would like some suggestions as to which is
> the best alternative to this menu based Kickstart that I am using here.
>
> Also this Kickstart infrastructure that I have here seems to be a basic one
> and we are ready to explore some advanced methods of Kickstarting our
> servers
>
>
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> # mukarram
>
>
>
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