Linux and Solaris Kickstarts and Jumpstarts

[Matt Shields]

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.
> >
> >
> >
>
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