On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:18:57AM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Chris Petro wrote:
> > Like many medium to large installations, we have some process in
> > place to "roll" (i.e. install and configure) machines in an
> > automatic or semi-automatic process. Currently we use a combination
> > of kickstart and "clustering" scripts to do this. The biggest
> > problem we face going forward is organizing and maintaining
> > this kickstart system across multiple versions. For security
> > and auditing purposes, we would like to have some mechanism in
> > place that only installs minimal packages on each machine, with
> > different packages--based on cluster or "profile"--placed on
> > specific machines.
> You could accomplish the "profiles" by creating a group in comps file,
> like:
> 1 Custom Package 1 {
> xxx
> yyy
> zzz
> }
> And then in ks.cfg, add:
> %packages
> @ Custom Package 1
No, you can't.
How do I install one version of package <x> on one cluster, and version
<y> on another?
How do I, with *ONE* floppy, install 20 different profiles?
> IMO your needs would have to be very great before you start hacking into
> the anaconda installer.
I have 200+ machines, in at least 20 different cluster configurations
ranging from *cannot* have glibc2.2 to must have, ranging from kernel
2.2.14 to 2.4.3ac<x>.
And 4 Admins to handle it.
Is that great enough?
> > When will reiserfs be supported in the kickstart process, and when
> > will LVM be supported? We need both of these for an upcoming rollout,
> > and I would rather *NOT* have to deal with System Imager for this,
> > as if we start using it, it will wind up replacing kickstart as
> > our means of rolling new boxes, and cause me lots of grief.
>
> These are rather new, and like with automatic software raid installations,
> take time to get done in the installer. If it isn't in the latter beta of
> the next release, I wouldn't have too high hopes for that.
Then we're probably going to wind up ditching Redhat for something
that can support them.
> > As a trivial question (while I'm asking) is there an easy way to
> > get rid of the redhat logo screen on startup? All of our machines
> > run headless with console redirected to serial, and it is kindof
> > annoying to have the garbage that this splash screen throws up
> > scroll across the screen.
>
> You mean straight at the bootup? Comment out message= in /etc/lilo.conf
> and run lilo.
>
> (the graphical lilo screen makes secondary serial console not work, btw;
> you can't choose images or give parameters. There is a bugzilla report by
> me on this)
>
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> Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
> Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall"
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