Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Michael DeHaan wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Michael DeHaan wrote:
Shabazian, Chip wrote:
You could start with the presentation I gave at last years
LinuxWorld:
http://www.shabazian.com/lw2007.pdf
+1.
My biggest tip is to "yum install system-config-kickstart" (which I
believe Chip mentions).
It can help guide you through the install questions and builds a
kickstart along the way. That's a good way to see what
the various options are (and is a bit easier than reading some of
the docs for the first couple of times -- eventually you
probably won't need the tool).
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That's a good tip, but for people who don't have X installed (for
example setting up servers), the GUI based kickstart config tool
won't work. I also had to go through this exercise but soon found a
lot of sites on the net with good sample kickstart files. One thing
I want to add though. If it's possible, setup sometimes like XEN /
VMWare / Virtualbox / QMU / etc to test the CD ISO. It's a pain in
the neck to first create the CD ISO with makeisofs, then burn it to
CD, and then putting it into my test machine to test it.
True! You can of course run system-config-kickstart on any box
though, so as long as you have at least one Linux box running X, you
can use that :)
With respect to the other suggestions, cobbler happens to both make
installing Xen/KVM very easy for repeated installs as you tweak
kickstarts and also includes sample base kickstarts :)
--Michael
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Does it? I tried using the Fedora Core 7 kickstart GUI, but the
package listing was different, so I didn't want to add / remove stuff
which CentOS didn't have
Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
It's close enough. Just do a base package-set and add what you need later.
The main change in kickstart between versions is the addition of being
able to use yum repos at install time -- which is availabe in FC6/F7
(which is "Fedora 7" no longer "Fedora Core", BTW) and later, and
therefore not in EL4.
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