Yup, good point. I used kickstart to install Windows images for the
driver support and to avoid RIS.
Since we already had PowerQuest's DriveImage software in house, I
created a RH9 bootimage with the necessary drivers the size of a large
floppy, 2880K, and put that on the Windows PXE server running
DriveImage. After PXE booting, the client calls an NFS mounted a
kickstart script which installs the Windows image (also stored in NFS)
using pqideploy. pqideploy is a DriveImage linux binary for installing
Windows.
--patty
Philip Rowlands wrote:
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Egan Ford wrote:
I see no value kickstarting windows. IMHO, the best installer for any
OS is the native installer. Work that you do to rollout Windows (e.g.
with unattended.sourceforge.net) can be easily adapted as newer
versions appear. You probably already know that about kickstart.
Very easy to adapter to a newer/different OS that also uses kickstart.
You're missing the point. Levering Kickstart allows me to use all the
storage and network drivers supported by Linux, plus all the scripting
available in python to do customization, on diverse hardware which makes
imaging solutions difficult.
The "kickstart" part of the process simply refers to getting all
necessary files to the host, and writing unattend.txt. Windows' own
setup.exe does the real install.
Other auto-installers for Windows simply do not have all the features,
except perhaps for RIS, which I can't use because I don't want an Active
Directory setup.
Cheers,
Phil
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