Fedora 14 Kickstart Problems

Leonid Flaks flaks at bnl.gov
Tue Nov 9 00:20:24 UTC 2010


On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 11/08/2010 11:48 AM, Tim wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 14:09 +0100, Bernd Nies wrote:
>>> is there another better way to install some hundred Workstations with
>>> as little user untervention as possible.
>>
>> I've always wondered about this, and I'd be surprised if someone on the
>> list hasn't tried it, but:  Is it quicker, than doing individual
>> automated installs to, build one system, and then clone the drive for
>> each other work station?
>
> Assuming the hardware and such on the other stations are identical, you
> can ghost the drives or use some commercial product (e.g. Acronis) and
> clone to your heart's content.
>
> If they're not identical (ESPECIALLY if you have to use different disk
> drivers), then you'll have to rebuild the boot ramdisks and such after
> cloning (e.g. boot off a rescue CD, chroot to the root of the installed
> system and use dracut or mkinitrd or whatever to rebuild it).
>
> We do both cloning and PXE boot kickstarts off network installs.
> Depends on your pain tolerance.  :-)
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Are you aware of cobbler and koan packages? It might meet your needs 
quite well. There is some learning to do at first, but documentation is 
extensive,  there is a wiki page at https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ 
and mail list. People do amazing things with this program.

Leon


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