Comments on: Automatic Memory Machine

By: Dan Waterloo

Dan Waterloo — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:15:21 +0000

This is great, and shows that it ‘is possible!’ to automate the installation and configuration of a server. I only have about 15 or so that I manage, but creating a new one can sometimes be a big project. Going to take this info, and apply it to what I do.

Thanks for sharing this.

By: Matt Ackerman

Matt Ackerman — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:15:49 +0000

I agree with this statement. The preseed method is rather cumbersome for partitioning and if you had a complex partitioning scheme that was changing frequently, some other method of setting up the disk may be desirable.

We have the luxury of using a simple filesystem with only one partition and the rest of the work is done with LVM after the system has been booted.

By: jaseywang

jaseywang — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:44:28 +0000

actually, the preseed way is not so much handy, especially for the process of partition. We need to adjust the part section again and again to fit our needs.

By: yegle

yegle — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:50:58 +0000

Because we manage our servers based on serial number, not MAC address, so in our implementation we use a two-step process, first collect the relationship between MAC address and SN, then assign a specific kickstart file to that serial number based on MAC address. (We uses RHEL not Debian)

Pretty much the same procedure as your solution

By: Lisandro D. N. Pérez Meyer

Lisandro D. N. Pérez Meyer — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:06:27 +0000

Thanks a lot for sharing this