On 4/9/2003 10:52 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wednesday 09 April 2003 10:31, Thomas Dodd wrote: > >>It's 3.5M (while the full CD1 is 638M) so it will fit on the small, card >>sized CDs. It's also easier to modify and rebuild that all of CD1,but >>faster than floppies. Sounds good for kickstart, since most NICs today >>are not bootable, and PXE is not real common (none of the 20 machines I >>use support it. The new file server might though) > > > unlucky for you. we require that our hardware be PXE boot capable. Mostly > that involves just putting in a Intel network card, but since most our > systemboards have intel chips built in, PXE is happening all over the place. > I recently created a PXE/Kickstart server, complete w/ a menu that the > install tech is presented w/ upon PXE boot, so all they have to type is the > type of kickstart they want to perform. "rm" for rackmount server, "ws" for > workstation, "small" for tiny partitions spread across the disks, and small > install, only enough to run ctcs burnin. If they type nothing for 30 > seconds, it'll default to "local" which has the system boot off the local > harddrive. > > It's a very slick system. > You wouldn't happen to have documentation or a HOW-TO that you'd be willing to share for this? Most specifically the menu portion. Previously I was using separate floppies with the ks.cfg script locally. While this worked, it was a pain to maintain 4 different floppies (2 for RH 7.3, 2 for RH 8.0, one for small drives, one for larger drives). I'd love to consolidate this to some degree. -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - rjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc
