[Novalug] Kickstart (was Re: Need some guidance)

The Doctor drwho@virtadpt.net
Mon Nov 2 11:47:52 EST 2009


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Beartooth wrote:

>     Would kickstart be good for what you might call pre-synchronizing them?

If you want all of them to be identical when you roll them out, yes.

Kickstart is used to partition and format the drives all at once, set up
drive mirrors, and install the same package sets across all of the
machines.  You can use it to configure them to a certain extent but most
of the fine tuning would have to be done by hand.  I've gotten Kickstart
to run scripts that were stored on the boot disks (I guess that dates
when I was using KS in the data center) but it's tricky.

In other words, it's used for mass installs.

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