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11–14 May 2008
Hyatt Regency Chicago
US/Central timezone

Expressway Red Hat Installation

12 May 2008, 11:45
40m
Columbus C-D (Hyatt Regency Chicago)

Columbus C-D

Hyatt Regency Chicago

151 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois, USA 60601

Speaker

Jimmy Devenport (LANL)

Description

* Institutional install of Red Hat Linux 3,4,5 from one CD * Static IP or DHCP environment * Uses syslinux's comboot32 API to gather information from user * Modifying initial ramdisk (initrd) to change anaconda innards * %post and %pre in kickstart (LANL's configuration) * "Set it and forget it" install by 1) creating kickstart 2) editing kickstart 3) editing hardening configuration 4) insert CD and boot 5) enter information about the host 6) installation does the rest... completely updated after install is finished!

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