Hi all, I want to be able to put a CD in a machine, power it on and walk away When I come back later I would have a customized installation of RHL. I am thinking about places where there are lots of identical machines and also where consistent repeatable installations are necessary. In this environment I also see everything being pulled over the network, the kickstart configuration file, the installation sources, nearly everything. The boot CD would be very small. This might also be possible from a floppy, not sure until I get further into it but since most modern machines do have CDROMs... I've figured out how to create a custom bootable CD that would automatically use the kickstart installation method and pull that file via HTTP. (Eventually I'd like to extend this further to use something like http://server/mac-address/ks.cfg and using links on the web server one could then have a few template ks files, for various different types of machines. To create a new say DNS server would one create link from the mac address of the new machine to the ks file for the sites DNS servers.) By keeping the everything on the a server as updates arrive they can easily replace the older RPM in the install media, all without having to burn new CDs. My difficultly right now is that the driver for my NIC, 8139too.o, is not included in the default RHL 7.2 modules.cgz. I've played around with trying to add the module, but am not having any luck. I put the correct module for the kernel in the right location and modified module-info. I'm unsure of what, if anything, I should be putting into pcitable. When I booted off of the CD after making the above changes, I did not see my card listed in the selection. Has anyone tried this before? Any lessons learned? Am I reinventing the wheel? Thanks, Chad
