I wrote up a rough guide on how to use the kickstart system with NFS
for doing auto-installation of a headnode, it can be found here:
http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/halls/garden/google/NFS.html (I may have to
move this page somewhere else soon!)
I was going to put it into the wiki but its enormous and so decided
against it, I'll link to it from there instead.
I agree that the python kickstart utility can (sadly) be painfully slow
at loading, not sure why though!
Regards,
Stuart Archibald
Steven Blackburn wrote:
Finally found the kickstart script editor...
The graphical install utility for kickstart on Fedora
5 is system-config-kickstart. According to one web
page I found, ksconfig is now deprecated. The RPMs
required are on the Fedora DVD:
pykickstart-0.23-1.noarch.rpm
system-config-kickstart-2.6.6-4.noarch.rpm
To edit an existing kickstart script, e.g. the one
Fedora creates on install, run with:
system-config-kickstart /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
It can be *very* slow in starting.
Steve.
PS: Can anyone edit wiki pages to add this sort of
info, or are changes more controlled than that?
--- Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Steve:
On a running Red Hat/Fedora system, the command is
"ksconfig" - you
might need to install the package (RPM) if it
doesn't exist.
Cheers,
Bernard
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Blackburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 16:47
To: Bernard Li; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ted Powell;
[email protected]
Subject: RE: [Oscar-devel] Problem installing on
FC5
I used the anaconda-ks.cfg file in /root which
Fedora
puts there during an install. It contains the
options
of the previous install. As I was happy with the
install, I based it on that (just disabling
selinux
and the firewall).
I couldn't find any of the script GUIs mentioned
on
any pages Google found but my needs were simple.
Cheers,
Steve.
--- Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Steve:
The kickstart configuration in the wiki is for
static ip - to setup DHCP
you need to modify it. It's probably best that
you
load the ks.cfg as a
template via the ksconfig GUI, and make
modifications there.
Cheers,
Bernard
-----Original Message-----
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On Behalf
Of Steven Blackburn
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 13:38
To: Ted Powell;
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [Oscar-devel] Problem installing
on
FC5
--- Ted Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 01:23:55PM -0500,
Michael
Edwards wrote:
There is also a somewhate subtle option in
the
installer to just not
turn it on in the first place. Its in the
firewall set up section.
Nope. The firewall set up section is (in
recent
Fedora Core distros)
part of the post-install setup. SELinux is
"on
in
the first place"; that
is, as soon as you boot at the end of the
install.
Only if you can make
it far enough into the post-install setup to
get
to
the place where you
are asked whether you want SELinux, can you
turn
it
off.
I have just discovered kickstart files (thanks
to
Bernard) and used it to reinstall my head
node.
There
is an option in there to disable SELinux and
the
firewall. This works for me. I don't know if
it
turns
it off at the beginning of the install though.
Oddly, the computer now fails to pick up the
default
gateway from DHCP :-(
Steve.
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