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/opt/tftpboot/RHEL/pxelinux.cfg/01-22-33-44-aa-cc-ee
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By: altrunemorph

altrunemorph — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:07:19 +0000

Hi! I want to thank you both David Both and Bruce Garland for such a complete guide to get kickstart running. This is the best and most complete HOWTO refering to this subject. Great work.

By: internetbummer

internetbummer — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Great guide... except that it's a little outdated now.

cobbler.et.redhat.com

Cobbler does all of that almost automatically on install, and gives you a lot more flexibility in terms of scripting additional install options.

By: troll666

troll666 — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Well, as one of the authors, outdated is not quite the right word. The info is current, it is just that the authors didn't find cobbler before rolling their own. Also, there are lots of admins out there that want to understand what is happening and why. when it breaks, they know the piece to fix on their own. Understanding the kickstart process can save hours of time debugging why the latest hardware fails to kick or to help trace a single byte error in a config file.

cobbler does look interesting and I will probably install it at some point and give it a whirl. It may be better for future deployments or it may have functions that we will build into our existing server.

BRuce

By: jrzagar

jrzagar — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

One of the main limitations I find in kickstart is in selecting the type of hard drive... Some systems use SATA (/dev/sd[a-z]), others use IDE (/dev/hd[a-z]), and some vendors' controllers don't follow either convention (e.g. HP raid controllers use /dev/cciss/...)

I use a %pre script to automatically generate the partition information:



######

# Disk configuration now handled by pre-install script

%include /tmp/partitions



...



%pre



######

# Auto-detect IDE/SATA/SCSI drive and adjust appropriately...



# Doesn't work with HP/Compaq SmartArray controller

# DISK="`egrep '[hs]d[a-z]( |$)' /proc/partitions | \

#     awk 'NR==1 {print $4}'`"

# echo $DISK



# Regular expressions that match different kinds of disk drives

# The HP cciss driver does not assign /dev/sd[a-z] names...



# *** WARNING ***

# Entering deep Bash quotation hell...

# Work-around for busybox bug in RHEL-4.U3



DISK=""

REGEXP01="'[hs]d[a-z]( |$)'"

REGEXP02="'cciss/c[0-9]d[0-9]( |$)'"



for regexp in `set | grep ^REGEXP | cut -d= -f1`

do

    eval EXPR=`eval "echo \$\{$regexp\}"`

    CMD="egrep ${EXPR} /proc/partitions"

    DISK="`eval "$CMD"| \

	awk 'NR==1 {print $4}'`"

    if  [ -n "${DISK}" ]

    then

        echo $DISK

	break

    fi

done

# Now leaving Bash quotation hell...



# bug in RHEL-4 busybox-1.00rc1-5

#

# cat - > /tmp/regexp.partitions  /tmp/partitions