----- Original Message -----
| Is a guide to installing Centos 6 32 bit that covers such
| things like:
| 
| Minimal Kickstart example file
| Centos 6 multimedia repos
| 
| Plus any other things I need to be aware of when moving from
| 5.8 to 6.2 (I know the latest version is 6.3 but I will
| let yum deal with that when I upgrade the installed
| packages.)
| 
| TIA
| 
| Keith Roberts

If you run an interactive installation on a single machine, selecting the 
components that you want installed, the partition layout and so forth, that 
machine will generate a kickstart file for you to replicate other machines with 
located in /root/anaconda-ks.cfg.  You can alter this file as you so choose and 
use it to then install other machines by passing it the ks= options for 
protocol, locations and whatnot.

Adding multimedia repos can be managed as part of the kickstarts post process 
to add things like RPMFusion, EPEL, ATRPMS and any other third party repo that 
you want.  Once the repositories are available you can then install components 
from them.

As a side note, have a look at the documentation for kickstart and more 
specifically the "repo" options.  You can include updates as part of the OS 
installation ending up with a host that has all updates applied during 
installation so that when it boots you have a fully patched system when rolled 
out.


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James A. Peltier
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