Hi Steve,
Thanks for that, and in particular thanks for the link to Pete Gronbech's slides.
It's greatly appreciated!
Gareth
On 14 Aug 2012, at 14:49, Stephen Jones wrote:
> On 08/14/2012 01:23 PM, Gareth Roy wrote:
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>> Any comments, advice, experience you have would be greatly appreciated.
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> Hi Gareth,
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> Everybody likes to plug their own setup - at Liverpool we use:
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> * pxeboot/dhcp to get the system started in the first place
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> * kickstart to get filesystems, a network and a basic OS on the system
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> * puppet to get the machine customized depending on grid node type
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> * yaim to configure the node type in the "yaim standard manner", if I
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> * No automatic yum updates, anywhere
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> * Most subsequent puppet updates under our control (so we always know
> what's what)
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> That works for us (most of the time, fingers crossed while saying so).
> The kickstart
> setup is based on Pete Gronbech's slideshow:
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> http://www.slideshare.net/networksguy/scientific-linux-network-installation-pete-gronbech-april-2005
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