On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Chris Petro wrote:
> Like many medium to large installations, we have some process in
> place to "roll" (i.e. install and configure) machines in an
> automatic or semi-automatic process. Currently we use a combination
> of kickstart and "clustering" scripts to do this. The biggest
> problem we face going forward is organizing and maintaining
> this kickstart system across multiple versions. For security
> and auditing purposes, we would like to have some mechanism in
> place that only installs minimal packages on each machine, with
> different packages--based on cluster or "profile"--placed on
> specific machines.
You could accomplish the "profiles" by creating a group in comps file,
like:
1 Custom Package 1 {
xxx
yyy
zzz
}
And then in ks.cfg, add:
%packages
@ Custom Package 1
IMO your needs would have to be very great before you start hacking into
the anaconda installer.
> When will reiserfs be supported in the kickstart process, and when
> will LVM be supported? We need both of these for an upcoming rollout,
> and I would rather *NOT* have to deal with System Imager for this,
> as if we start using it, it will wind up replacing kickstart as
> our means of rolling new boxes, and cause me lots of grief.
These are rather new, and like with automatic software raid installations,
take time to get done in the installer. If it isn't in the latter beta of
the next release, I wouldn't have too high hopes for that.
> As a trivial question (while I'm asking) is there an easy way to
> get rid of the redhat logo screen on startup? All of our machines
> run headless with console redirected to serial, and it is kindof
> annoying to have the garbage that this splash screen throws up
> scroll across the screen.
You mean straight at the bootup? Comment out message= in /etc/lilo.conf
and run lilo.
(the graphical lilo screen makes secondary serial console not work, btw;
you can't choose images or give parameters. There is a bugzilla report by
me on this)
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Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords
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