On 2011-10-17 14:45, ~Stack~ wrote:
On 10/14/2011 08:00 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:51 PM, ~Stack~<[email protected]> wrote:
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that for certain reasons is no longer applicable to the new system.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?
Yes, but it's really *sneaky*. You have to build an OS image, usually
a tarball. %pre scripting sets up your fileysstems, you don't actually
install *anything* with the normal install procedures, and you can run
%post or %post --nochroot scripts to implant details of the hardware
and especially network configuration.
I did this on over 10,000 Linux servers in one month, along with tools
that played 3-card monty to bundle thee relevant configuration files
from old systems to new system. It was the *fastest* OS installer
I've ever seen, in industry or personal use.
Would it be possible for you to give a few more details on how you did
this? I think I understand what you are saying but I am a ways off from
doing it. If I understand, the %pre setups up the environment, detects
the hardware, and then modifies the installer for the proper ARCH. Right?
I am having numerous PXE issues crop up and while I am solving most of
them just by searching the net, a few still elude me.
I do appreciate all the help I am getting.
It sounds more like what my current workplace does when setting up
systems for QA: create an image of a minimal system, then PXE-boot a
minimal OS that fetches the appropriate image and writes it to the disk
instead of installing the system package-by-package as usual.
I would like to learn about how to do this with anaconda, so please
respond to me or the list as well, Nico.
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Garrett Holmstrom
