[ale] Ghosting Linux

[James P. Kinney III]

mkkisckstart will create the kickstart file from an existing
installation. It works best to use an NFS mounted drive with the entire
contents of the RPMS directories from all the RedHat CD's to act as
kickstart server.

I've done 24 machines in under 2 hours like this :)


On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 14:53, Denny Chambers wrote:
> I thought there was a way to make a "Golden Image" from and existing 
> system, and make KickStart use that as the install image. I know HP has 
> a tool for this (HP Ignite), maybe that is what I am thinking about.
> 
> Denny
> 
> Fletch wrote:
> 
> >>>>>>"Denny" == Denny Chambers <dchambers at snapserver.com> writes:
> >>>>>>            
> >>>>>>
> >
> >    Denny> Also what distro are you using? Redhat has a tool called
> >    Denny> KickStart, I believe you can install a machine from a
> >    Denny> previously made image. Not totally sure about this, but
> >    Denny> worth a look.
> >
> >
> >        KickStart is more for automated installing on a fresh machine,
> >not realy backing it up.  Basically everything you specify with the
> >GUI installer you can just write up a kickstart config and it'll
> >automagically run the install without prompting a hyooman for any
> >information.  More the thing you'd use to mass produce several
> >identical boxen than back them up.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
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