1) on the first screen, r-c-ks has a selection for "Default
Language". technically, this isn't the default language,
it's the installation language, which is not the same as
the default lauguage selected by the "langsupport" directive
further down.
2) i've mentioned this before, but in some cases, the directives
and their options are sometimes inconsistent. consider
"bootloader", which has the option "useLilo" if you want
LILO, or you use *no* option if you want GRUB.
it would have been more consistent to have something like
useLoader={GRUB,LILO}, or something like that. this will
be particularly annoying if, sometime down the road, another
loader comes along to replace GRUB and it should be the new
default.
i suspect, however, it's too late to change this sort of
thing.
3) the choices of "Clear Master Boot Record" or "Do not clear
Master Boot Record" are really pretty uninformative. these
correspond to the "zerombr yes" directive, which is explained
as "any invalid partition tables found on disks are
initialized".
what does "initialized" mean? zeroed? set to some default
value? in any case, to offer someone the choice to "clear"
the MBR is not terribly informative if they have no idea what
it means.
4) as i mentioned in a previous post, r-c-ks doesn't support
LVM configuration.
5) regarding the "firewall" directive, it seems that there's no
way, if you have multiple NIC cards, to allow certain services
only on particular cards. that is, if you allow HTTP as a
service, you are allowing it for all cards.
all this means, as i read it, is that kickstart is suitable
for configuring fairly simple firewalling, but for more than
that, you have to do it manually after install, correct?
that should about do it for now.
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
Eno River Technologies
Unix, Linux and Open Source training
Waterloo, Ontario
www.enoriver.com
