Driver disks (if needed) can be loaded from either the boot
line, OR from the kickstart file. Of course, if you need them for the NIC,
then you are going to have to load them from the boot line. This can be
done with either a custom boot cd, via pxeboot, or manually entered on the boot
line.
You can do a lot in %pre to figure out different machines,
drives, etc. dmidecode is useful to figure out which machine you are
on. Doing this, you can have one kickstart for all
servers.
If you are going to pxeboot, you are going to need a dhcp
server to assign the initial address. You can setup the dhcp server to
only assign addresses to specific machines, and to assign a specific IP
address. Your kickstart file can then make that IP address
static.
From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of anthony parackel
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:08 PM
To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Kickstart setup for different hardware profiles - Help!
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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