Hi All,
Unfortunately, I?m assigned the task of creating a kickstart environment that contains the following machines:
Dell 1850
Dell 1950
Dell 2850
Dell 2950
Each system will have RHEL 4 loaded on it. I?m very new to linux(Junior SysAdmin) and I
need to come up with a way to overcome the following obstacles.
1. I need to be able to install specific NIC drivers that aren?t supported
eg. The 2950 won?t boot off the network because it doesn?t have the Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit ethernet driver(bnx2)
Should I setup an environment that will load the drivers off a CD? Or is this even possible with PXE? (Not sure how it works)
My guess is that I?d have to put ?dd? on a boot line. Is this correct?
2. Each machine contains different hard drives(SATA, SCSI and SAS). What would be the most
efficient way to load the drivers for these different types of controllers? I plan on setting up a NFS source where these drivers can be loaded using
The ??driverdisk? option. Would this be the best
way?
3. Since there are multiple hardware profiles, Is it best to have different ks.cfg files on a CD or a network share? I?d want to ideally assign static Ips
to each server instead of using DHCP.
Honestly, I?m very confused and intimidated by this task. Can anybody please point down the right path?
ANY advice is appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
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