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05-02-2008

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kickstart file questions

Hi,

I have few questions to make this kickstart file to be more efficient:

1) I would like to reboot the server once the installation (included installed all the optional rpm) is done.
2) Is there a nicer way to install rpm packages? (Here I included the commands in my kickstart file)

# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.

install
nfs --server=10.10.10.200 --dir=/vault/redhat/rhel5/5.1/x86_64
key --skip
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
xconfig --startxonboot
network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 10.10.10.20 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 10.10.10.1 --nameserver
10.10.10.100--hostname abc
network --device eth1 --onboot no --bootproto dhcp --hostname abc
rootpw --iscrypted $1$r3I9vk75$JWCGlXqgYd0/55lfg09NJ.
firewall --disabled
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
selinux --disabled
timezone --utc America/New_York
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append="rhgb quiet"
# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
clearpart --all --drives=sda
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=sda
part pv.6 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda
volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.6
logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=25600
logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=8192
logvol /abc --fstype ext2 --name=LogVol03 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=25216
logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol02 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10240

%packages
@editors
@core
@base
@java
@base-x
@admin-tools
kexec-tools
device-mapper-multipath
xorg-x11-utils
xorg-x11-server-Xnest
libsane-hpaio
-sysreport

%post
chkconfig --del autofs
chkconfig --del bluetooth
chkconfig --del cpuspeed
chkconfig --del dhcdbd
chkconfig --del dund
chkconfig --del gpm
chkconfig --del hidd
chkconfig --del ip6tables
chkconfig --del iptables
chkconfig --del irda
chkconfig --del netconsole
chkconfig --del pand
chkconfig --del pcscd
chkconfig --del rhnsd
chkconfig --del wpa_supplicant
chkconfig --del yum_updatesd
mkdir -p /mnt/cd
mount /dev/hda /mnt/cd
cd /mnt/cd/Server
rpm -i cpp-4.1.2-14.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i sysstat-7.0.0-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i ypserv-2.19-3.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i ntp-4.2.2p1-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i am-utils-6.1.5-4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i gdb-6.5-25.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i strace-4.5.16-1.el5.1.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i bind-devel-9.3.3-10.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i bind-9.3.3-10.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i bind-chroot-9.3.3-10.el5.x86_64.rpm

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makedeltarpm

MAKEDELTARPM(8) 					      System Manager's Manual						   MAKEDELTARPM(8)

NAME

       makedeltarpm - create a deltarpm from two rpms

SYNOPSIS

       makedeltarpm [-v] [-V version] [-z compression] [-m mbytes] [-s seqfile] [-r] [-u] oldrpm newrpm deltarpm
       makedeltarpm [-v] [-V version] [-z compression] [-s seqfile] [-u] -p oldrpmprint oldpatchrpm oldrpm newrpm deltarpm

DESCRIPTION

       makedeltarpm  creates  a  deltarpm from two rpms. The deltarpm can later be used to recreate the new rpm from either filesystem data or the
       old rpm. Use the -v option to make makedeltarpm more verbose about its work (use it twice to make it even more verbose).

       If you want to create a smaller and faster to combine "rpm-only" deltarpm which does not work with filesystem data, specify the -r option.

       makedeltarpm normally produces a V3 format deltarpm, use the -V option to specify a different version if desired. The -z option can be used
       to specify a different compression method, the default is to use the same compression method as used in the new rpm.

       The -s option makes makedeltarpm write out the sequence id to the specified file seqfile.

       If  you	also  use  patch rpms you should use the -p option to specify the rpm-print of oldrpm and the created patch rpm. This option tells
       makedeltarpm to exclude the files that were not included in the patch rpm but are not byteswise identical to the ones in oldrpm.

       makedeltarpm can also create an "identity" deltarpm by adding the -u switch. In this case only one rpm has to  be  specified.  An  identity
       deltarpm can be useful to just replace the signature header of a rpm or to reconstruct a rpm from the filesystem.

MEMORY CONSIDERATIONS

       makedeltarpm  normally  needs  about  three to four times the size of the rpm's uncompressed payload. You can use the -m option to enable a
       sliding block algorithm that needs mbytes megabytes of memory. This trades memory usage with the size of the created deltarpm. Furthermore,
       the uncompressed deltarpm payload is currently also stored in memory when this option is used, but it tends to be small in most cases.

SEE ALSO

       applydeltarpm(8) combinedeltarpm(8)

AUTHOR

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