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Kickstart is extremely powerful, read https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-kickstart2.html for more options. We have built our entire network to use kickstart files with PXE boot, so a server can be reimaged in a matter of 10 minutes. Matt On 12/2/06, John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote: > To add to my previous comments: > > If you do a net install, then you can certainly add any extra > rpm packages to the install server and then add them to the > kickstart file. > > On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, John Abreau wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 17:28 -0500, Rusty Shackleford wrote: > > > I am no longer at work so I cant check, is that an easy implementation > > > to use the file in there? I have some other applications that I need > > > to have installed at the same time or is that file strictly for the os > > > part of it? > > > > > > > That file is a script of the choices you made in the installer when > > you installed the system initially. Applications you selected during > > the initial install are included; applications you install later, > > after the system is up and running, are not included. > > > > When you install a new system using a kickstart file, it looks at > > the file each step of the way, and then only prompts you for things > > that are missing in the kickstart script. So if you leave out the > > disk formatting stanzas, for example, but include everything else, > > then the graphical installer will ask you to partition the disks, > > and then it will immediately start formatting and installing. > > > > > > > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > IM: jabr at jabber.blu.org / abreauj at AIM / abreauj at Yahoo / zusa_it_mgr at Skype > Email jabr at blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 > PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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