I could have sworn Dan Trainor said this Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 05:02:55PM -0700 ... > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Howdy - > > I did the below, and even went as far as being able to use those > variables for on-the-fly configuration of some of our proprietary > applications. It works well. I'm just trying to convey the level of > flexibility involved here. > Further to Dan's point, I use Kickstart to manage unattended installs for a variety of systems here - workstations, dev machines, render nodes of various flavours, miscellaneous servers, etc. of various flavours of kickstart-ready Linux (RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, Whitebox, etc.) across multiple sites. My install kit is barely 10 MB, and with a USB key or a bootable ISO, I can run multiple unattended installations simultaneously with just a couple parameters at boot time, covering a variety of system configurations - multiple NICs, SCSI vs. IDE vs. SATA, static vs. dynamic IPs, etc. It gives me a framework that makes it easy to delegate tasks like this to people who aren't Linux-savvy (interns, etc.), or even if they are, to do rapid disaster recovery on workstations and render nodes. It's a very powerful framework, if you explore it in some detail. It saves me a ton of time and allows for very easy automation. Klaus
