Re: Floppy Linuxes, Kickstart
From: Shannon Lee (shannon@scatter.com)Date: 09/25/01
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Subject: Re: Floppy Linuxes, Kickstart From: Shannon Lee <shannon@scatter.com> To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com Date: 24 Sep 2001 20:28:03 -0700 Message-Id: <1001388483.1159.19.camel@shaftoe>
On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 18:46, Systems Administrator wrote:
> I've read the kickstart documentation (comes with Redhat, maybe others),
> and it mostly looks good, but I want to be able to configure machines mostly
> the same with just a few options different. I'd like to use kickstart, but
> have it still ask me for a few key pieces of information (eg. network
> configs, partition table, etc), preferably with me supplying the defaults.
> I'm found that some of this can be overcome by putting "netconfig" in the
> %pre section, but I haven't found any good solution for partition tables or
> the root password (which I want different on the different machines). Does
> anyone know of any way to do this, either through one of the kickstart
> options, or through programs to run in the %pre section?
you can build a seperate kickstart config for every server, named [ip
address].kickstart; for that matter, you can make a generic config
(ks.cfg) and then create individual configs for just the servers you
want to be unique, if you have a "mostly generic" system (like, say, a
web server farm plus a few infrastructure boxes).
personally, i have my hosts set up with two interface, one back and one
front (ie, publicly ip'd and a private net), and i have the servers come
up with the back network up but not the front, so it gives me a chance
to tweak before the machine hits the net.
it's a two hour drive for me to physically touch the systems i manage,
so i've put a lot of effort into making sure i can rebuild them without
having to actually go there (it's actually pretty easy to get the
'bootnet.img' to work as a LILO-bootable config, and thus rebuild a host
from the command line...)
if you're really into doing configuration at the console, i think if you
just leave sections out of the kickstart config the installer will go
ahead and prompt you.
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