DEll Server MGMT & RedHat Packages via Kickstart?

[Michael E Brown]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 05:04:53AM -0800, Ken White wrote:
> 
> Hi I am looking for some help in that I have used the Dell Install & Server
> Mgmt CD ver. 5.1.0 to install my first RedHat ES4 OS onto a 2850. I then put
> the subsequent files dsa.xml, profile.xml & raidcli.sh that it created in
> /root/replication onto a floppy disc which I have edited to my liking for
> replication purposes and that part works fine. The only problem is that I
> need to manage i.e. add or remove some packages from the package list that
> the DELL SA uses and also creates in it's combined DSA/Factory kickstart
> file under /root/install-ks.cfg for my replication purposes. My question is
> which file can I best edit and were would I place it so that when running
> the DELL SA CD along with my replication floppy disc it will install my
> approved packages from the OS instead of the default DSA/Factory ones? I did
> try placing an edited install-ks.cfg file on the replication floppy, even
> tried renaming it ks.cfg but the DELL SA still uses its own default
> DSA/Factory configuration through the install process. 

Using replication, you cannot replace the ks.cfg used by DSA. But you can 
rebuild the DSA CD with your very own ks.cfg.

There is a script in the isolinux directory, rebuildCd.sh or something like that.

1) cp -a /mnt/cdrom/ ~/customdsa/
2) vim ~/customdsa/server_assistant/pexxxx/linux/rh40/ks.cfg
3) ~/customdsa/server_asssistant/isolinux/rebuildCd.sh
4) cdrecord -eject -pad -v speed=4 dev=/dev/yourcdburner ./rebuilt-dsa.iso

NOTE: all from memory. some of the paths might be a tiny off, but I'm sure you
can figure it out.

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Michael