Linux Kickstart Disk

Automatic And Up-To-Date Fedora 9 Installations With Kickstart And Novi

10/30/2008  
Relevance: 14.57
Kickstart allows you to do automatic Fedora/RedHat/CentOS installations. This is useful and time-saving if you have to deploy tens or hundreds of similar systems (e.g. workstations). Kickstart reads the installation settings from a Kickstart configuration file. The problem with Kickstart is that it usually uses the distribution's packages from the time the distribution was released, i.e., it does not consider updates which means you would have to update each system manually after the Kickstart installation. This guide explains how you can do up-to-date Kickstart installations with the help of a tool called novi.
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Unattended Fedora 8 Installation With NFS And Kickstart

04/09/2008  
Relevance: 11.20
This document describes how to set up an installation environment with kickstart and NFS on Fedora 8. With the resulting system you will be able run unattended Fedora 8 installations on the client systems in your LAN - additionally, you will save lots of Internet bandwidth. The whole client configuration can be included into the kickstart file (especially the post-installation script) so you, the admin, will also save a vast amount of time.
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Tips and tricks: How do I specify my installation key from within a kickstart file?

07/17/2007  
Relevance: 10.87
The Anaconda installer in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 provides a way of specifying the installation key in a kickstart file in order to allow for a fully unattended system install.
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HowTo FIX that annoying NIC reordering that VMWare ESX 3.+ does to you..

10/09/2008  
Relevance: 8.52
Once we moved to VMWare ESX 3.+ we ran into a very annoying issue. The issue was that if you have multiple NICs from Multiple vendors, VMWare will reorder your NICs and cause havoc to you guys who use PXE boot/Kickstart. So I had to come with a work around that will alleviate this issue. I went ahead and created this script and I injected it in the post section of our kickstart profile and had it run after rebooting 3 times. Since After the third reboot the VMWare is done with its configuration, after the third reboot the script will run and then delete itself. Once all said and done your NICs will be in the proper order.
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How fast is your disk?

01/16/2007  
Relevance: 8.40
It's a known fact that although disk storage capacities are improving at an impressive rate, disk performance improvements are occurring at a rather slower rate. Here are the two techniques for measuring disk performance in Linux. With a little bit of torturing, and some fun on the way, find out how fast your hard disk drive really is.
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Travails of adding a second hard disk in a PC running Linux

12/08/2006  
Relevance: 7.89
Ever had to install a second hard disk on a machine running Linux? If it is an IDE hard disk, the jumper settings of the hard disk decide how it is detected by the computer. This article details the experiences of the author in adding a second IDE hard disk in a Linux PC.
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Kickstart 2010 with Linux

12/22/2009  
Relevance: 7.51
If your new year's resolution is to kick the Microsoft habit, here are some Linux versions you might want to look at.
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Pain-free disk space management with LVM

08/22/2007  
Relevance: 7.44
Managing disk space used to be a royal pain for admins and users. Running out of disk space often meant reinstalling Linux or spending a few hours with tools like Parted to resize partitions. However, using the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) tools, you can grow, shrink, and manage disk space with very little hassle.
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How To Resolve Veritas Disk Group Cluster Volume Management Problems On Linux or Unix

09/30/2008  
Relevance: 7.32
How minor device numbers can affect disk sharing within a Veritas Cluster! Today we're going to look at an issue that, while it doesn't happen all that often, happens just enough to make it post-worthy. I've only seen it a few times in my"career," but I don't always have access to the fancy software, so this problem may be more widespread than I've been lead to believe ;) The issue we'll deal with today is: What do you do when disk groups, within a cluster, conflict with one another? Or, more correctly, what do you do when disk groups within a cluster conflict with one another even though all the disk is being shared by every node in the cluster?
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EFI and ZFS

03/16/2007  
Relevance: 7.30
I have a 1TB RAID array that has to be moved from my one remaining Solaris machine (which will no longer boot) to a Linux machine. I was expecting that - as with the other disk which has undergone the same process - this would appear as a SunOS usr disk and partition, which I could then mount read-only and dump elsewhere before reformatting the disk as ext3& dumping it back again.
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