On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 08:33, Eric.Doutreleau@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi > > I'm succesfully manage my 200+ workstation RH7.3 with kickstart + cfengine > and > some other software. > > But now as the computer are quite heterogeneous in hardware , > configuration and software i have a lot of kickstart file and it > become difficult to manage it. > > I can't use the PXE functionnality as it is used by windows staff with a > RIS server. > > right now i got the kickstart file by NFS. > > I would like now to structure the kickstart. > Basically there would be some generic definition for ( but not > exhaustively ). > > -machine with little disk > -machine with big disk > -machine with some specific software > -machine with double boot. > > Then ideally my kickstart files will be a sum of include of other file. > > The problem is that i can't include file from NFS. > > and i can't mount the directory where the include file are because > it s already too late. > > Has someone already succeed in doing such kind of thing? more or less - setup your bootdisks to get your ks.cfg from http - then use a cgi script to concatenate your ks.cfg out of the sections you have. We do this here but it is poorly documented as we wrote it in maybe a couple of days total. You have two config files: One defines a profile let's say "little disk" and gives a list of includes in a certain order the other gives a list of hostnames (regex in our case) and which profile they use. so the client machine makes a request - the server knows its ip, resolves it to a name, checks the profile hostname regex to see which profile it has, then looks up the files it should concatenate for the ks.cfg. that's it. -sv
