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Advanced Linux Installations and Upgrades with Kickstart (O'ReillyNet)

[Posted November 5, 2004 by ris]

O'ReillyNet discusses Kickstart customization, scalability, and security. "Most Kickstart experiments begin with a single ks.cfg file, though this approach is less suitable for large deployments. Even a farm of cloned hardware will require some settings unique to each host. That means you have either several one-use ks.cfgs, or one file to tweak for each Kickstart target. These methods are brittle because they bind two elements that may vary independently of one another: host-specific data (the IP address) and build-specific data (packages to install). When either one changes, the ad hoc edits to resync the two may introduce errors."

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