I'd also be interested. I help grad students conduct research at the University of Kansas, and basically I just need to be able to reliably recreate a specific configuration for testing purposes. Originally we found that most of the machines needed the same software but they had differing hardware, so we started using separate hardware files and software profile files. Then we had a bash script that extracted the necessary information from each of these and constructed the necessary ks.cfg files. I recently started work on a Python/Tkinter frontend to all of this hoping to have it in use around here sometime soon. It's been worked on for a little over a year by various people, and used on at least 6.0 and 6.2. Jacob Woltersdorf ITTC, University of Kansas woltersd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx P.S. I attached a url to some of the scripts and stuff that we've been using along with sample hardware files and profile files. Please keep in mind that most of this stuff is basically still in beta. If others are interested in starting a new project, or taking over this project I'd definitely be interested in assisting. URL to some of the documention we've been updating (mostly related to 6.2) as well as a link to the stuff we're currently working on: http://www.ittc.ukans.edu/kickstart/ On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote: > I just finished using MS Windows 98 batch setup for a friend to > automate the installation of 98SE, and it dawned on me that it > would be nice to have a similar utility in Red Hat Linux for > automating the configuration of machines beforehand. > > Is there such a GUI install tool available for kickstart yet? If > not, how useful do people think it would be? If you haven't used > Windows batch setup, basically it asks you all the questions > windows would for an install, only via a nice GUI interface in a > running Windows setup. It allows deeper configureation than the > default normal windows install, and it saves all your pickings to > a "whatever.inf" file which you pass to the setup.exe program > very much like a kickstart file. > > It is a very fast way to spit off multiple configs for machines. > > If no such util exists, please let me know if you are interested > and I'll try and generate more interest and perhaps get a project > going. > > TTYL > > > > -- > Mike A. Harris - Linux advocate - Open source advocate > Copyright 2000 all rights reserved > ---------- > "A Firewall is really much like a sophisticated traffic cop; it detects and > stops unauthorized or suspicious movement in or out of the network. But > security is more than a Firewall; it's a process. You can't just put in a > Firewall and think you're secure." > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list >
