[Gllug] Type of Install Server/WorkerStation/Custom

[John Hearns]

On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 14:47, Tethys wrote:
> >Kickstart is very versatile.  You can use components (such as @Kernel 
> >Development, @Gnome, @kde) or single rpms (e.g. mutt, binutils) and so 
> >on.  In addition, you kan have third party rpms as long as they are in 
> >the hdlist.  In the post section you can create users, create 
> >directories, install thirdparty rpms (those _not_ in hdlist), and other 
> >scripts.
> 
> It's sounding good so far. What about things like partitioning schemes?
> 

Ask us a hard one please!

clearpart --all

part /                  --size 4096
part swap               --size 2048
part /usr/vice/cache    --size 1024
part /var               --size 1024
part /tmp               --size 1024 --grow


You can sepcify:
 --fstype ext2  (or whatever) if you don't want the default ext3
-- ondisk hdc (or whatever) to say which disk to put the partition on
--badblocks to run badblocks checking



Actually, a bloke I work with has just written a kickstart file
generator. We are installing common software on all our nodes - the
kickstart files are customised a little, depending machine type, 
numbers of hard disks and sizes.
(We don't by any means have all nodes identical - machines have
different RAM sizes, older machines have smaller hard disks.
So we customise the partitioning scheme dependent on the information
from the hardware database)






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