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Hello all-
I am looking for some advice from all the linux veterans out there.
Over the next 1-2 months I have to put about 25 new linux servers out
into production and I am a little worried about the time that it is
going to take me. In the past I have done every install by hand, but
going through the damn install process to pick the packages takes as
long as it does to actually install the software. I have looked at
RedHat's Kickstart, but a fair number of the servers are DAC960 SCSI
RAID based, and if I understand the KS documentation correctly, it won't
work in these cases.
So whats the secret to mass installs? I am standardizing on RH7.1 with
kernel 2.4.13, so I need to build an image with the new kernel and I
would like to keep the image to the lowest common denomenator. I have no
problem going through each box before deployment to make sure that any
box specific software/configurations are installed, so the less specific
the image the better I feel.
I was thinking of doing a Norton Ghost setup, but the cash for the
Corporate version isn't exactly at hand right now, so I would like to
look at other (cheaper/free) alternatives.
Thanks for the advice!
Zack
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