Hello all, I am attempting to build a group of systems that boot off of PXE and auto-install with a kickstart file. I previously used a bundled package that for certain reasons is no longer applicable to the new system. So I am learning a lot about what happened behind the scenes of the bundled package.
This particular stumbling block is: I have a mixed environment of 32bit and 64bit machines. I would like for the kickstart menu to auto-pick 32bit or 64bit. Is this possible? I am using DNSMasq as the DHCP/DNS/TFTP server. The only solution I have found so far is to have two dhcp ranges that have the machines manually split by a tag. Then depending on the tag the TFTP server hands off one of two ks.cfg files. The only major difference between the i386 and the x86_64 ks.cfg files is that one url line. Of course, this isn't a ton of overhead, but it is two DHCP ranges, two sets of machine files, two TFTP options, and two ks.cfg files. If there was some way to have the kickstart file auto-choose then it would just all be a single instance of each. Cutting the overhead by half certainly sound nice, I just have not been able to do it nor has my internet searching turned up anything of use. Any ideas? Thanks! ~Stack~ My i386 ks.cfg file: #platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T firewall --enabled --ssh install url --url="http://10.1.1.11/scientificlinux/6.1/i386/os"; # Root password rootpw --iscrypted mypasswordhash auth --useshadow --passalgo=sha512 text keyboard us lang en_US selinux --enforcing skipx logging --level=info timezone --isUtc America/Chicago network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --onboot=on bootloader --location=mbr --md5pass="mypasswordhash" zerombr clearpart --all --initlabel --drives="sda" part / --fstype="ext4" --size=20480 part swap --fstype="swap" --size=4096 part /localscratch --fstype="ext4" --grow --size=1 reboot %packages --nobase openssh-clients %end
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