I started looking at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StatelessLinux and from there got introduced to cobbler and koan (Great work Michael !!) These are the 4 objectives I am trying to achieve: A. Prepare a gold copy of the server. This involves: 1. installing RHEL5 on it 2. Add other RPM's like webmin and virtualmin. 3. Move the config files like httpd.conf etc. to a location called /gt/fsrvx/server-config/. Here x is that servers number. For e.g the first server will have /gt/fsrv1/ 2nd server will have /gt/fsrv2/ and so on. Here /gt/ is a separate partition. B. Be able to push the gold copy out to servers fresh from UPS using PXE and cobbler and once the server has a base OS on it be able to add more virtual operating systems to it using koan and cobbler. C. Each of the deployed servers should contact the central gold copy and see if there have been any changes to the / partition and if so then rsync over the changes. This is the stateless part of each of the servers. D. Any changes to the /gt/ partition should be sent over to the backup server. This is the state part of each of the servers. My two questions are: 1. Will the kickstart file allow me to move the config files like httpd.conf over to /gt/fsrv1/server-config/httpd.conf. I can possibly do this by modifying the default apache RPM but will I be able to say /gt/fsrv?/server-config/http.conf and replace the ? with the current server number getting installed. 2. Will I be able to achieve the objectives B and C. Regards, ----- Mortgage fit Virtualization Group http://www.mortgagefit.com Vikas vikas at mortgagefit dot com
