Custom Redhat Bootdisk?

[JRyanCon]

I have made a Redhat AS 3.0 boot disk from the boot.iso on disk 1. If I boot off this disk and at the prompt type:
"linux ks=ftp://serverIP/directoryToKickstartFile/ks.cfg"
I can start the network install and use a kickstart file on a server in my office. My question is this; can I add
"linux ks=ftp://serverIP/directoryToKickstartFile/ks.cfg" to my bootdisk so it does this by default? Is there such a thing?

thanks,

Ryan

 

[jstreich]

Anacronda will auto search the A for a disk containing the kickstart file, so you could take a kickstart with you.

I can't think of a way to add that line to the RH disks, but you could create Live image of the system you want to create (if it is slim enough) and just copy it over to th emachine your installing on... Other similar technologies you might want to look into are Ghosting, Bacula (its a backup utility -- but they can be used to install an exact image if the partions are already in the right place) and maybe even ROCKS (a RH based distro that is used to create identical "nodes" in a Beowulf cluster).