[Gllug] Type of Install Server/WorkerStation/Custom

[Xander D Harkness]

John Hearns wrote:

>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. 
>
Just thought I would mention that Red Hat have already written one :-)

Cheers
Xander




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