Re: Floppy Linuxes, Kickstart

From: Girish N. (girdu@hotmail.com)
Date: 09/26/01 

From: "Girish N." <girdu@hotmail.com>
To: <m.bizzarri@icube.it>, "Systems Administrator" <sysadmin@sunet.com.au>
Subject: Re: Floppy Linuxes, Kickstart
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 02:05:58 +0530
Message-ID: <OE671xFqoPYzq67wn7j00003a36@hotmail.com>

For kickstart procedure what i found is one should have a autodetectable
NIC.
Other wise he will prompt u to enter some info.
i am giving here the netconfig setting and partition info from my ks.cfg
file hope this will help.

network --bootproto static --ip 10.67.*.* --netmask 255.255.0.0 --gateway
10.67.*.* --nameserver 10.67.*.*
zerombr yes
clearpart --linux
part /boot --size 32
part / --size 1000 --grow
part swap --size 512

this will create the partitions, we can add more partitions according to the
disk size.

- Girish

----- Original Message -----
From: <m.bizzarri@icube.it>
To: "Systems Administrator" <sysadmin@sunet.com.au>
Cc: <focus-linux@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: Floppy Linuxes, Kickstart

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> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, 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?
> >
>
> As for what concerns the root password, if you omit to include the rootpw
> parameter in the ks.cfg file, the system will ask it you once it reaches
> the point where it is needed. I'm not sure for the other parameters, but I
> suspect you could check by removing one or the other and see what happens.
>
> Also, if you need access to more configuration parameters (apart from the
> partition parameters) you could try including linuxconf (get the latest
> from solucorp)
>
> Bye
> Marco
>
> - --
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