> If anyone has dealt with the > same issues, I would be very interested to hear about your solutions. > > Thanks for any ideas, You may want to take a look at http://xml2hostconf.sourceforge.net/ Among other things it generates kickstart scripts out of an XML file that describes your network. It is primarily meant to be used in situations where clients are installed over the network with PXE. Of course you could instead copy the generated kickstart scripts to another medium and bring it to the client computers by other means. A new release ( 2.0.0 ) was released yesterday. A new feature in this release is among others a cgi script in Python that makes the kickstart file only downloadable one single time from the correct ip address. If you want to avoid to always have your kickstart files published this might be a good thing. cheers, Erik Sjölund