 | | | cd kickstarting question | cd kickstarting question 2006-02-13 - By Bob Flynn
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Hi,
I am kickstarting a variety of machines, and I have the following issue.
My kickstart works as follows;
Maintain NFS server with ISO images of distributions available.
Kickstart file and any pre/postscripts available on NFS server.
Boot from CD1 from whatever distribution version I intend to install.
Once at the linux prompt, specifying the kickstart file and a NFS
installation and off I go.
The problem
I have to boot from the 1st disk of whatever distribution I am using to
use the NFS copy of the ISO image of the same distribution. This is a
pain if I have to keep a set of CD's simply to boot to a kickstart. An
exampple. If I am looking to installed Red Hat Enterprise WS 3.0 U2,
then I have to boot from disk 1 of Red Hat Enterprise WS 3.0 U2,
anything else and it will complain. So I am looking for workarounds.
Possible solutions.
1. PXE and ignore the requirement to boot from CD to start. The downside
is I am supporting some boxes which are not PXE enabled.
2. A generic boot disk which will allow me to kickstart without having
the boot disk having to match the NFS version of whatever I am
kickstarting via NFS ?
This would be a reasonable solution ( extra points for the image
supporting booting via USB, for those machines for which a USB boot is
simplier ).
Ideas ?
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