Kickstart is nice for genning boxes, but it seems you basically want to ghost your boxes.
I think what you need to look at is LRP (linux router project). At the red hat certification class, we booted off a floppy and basically ghosted our machines with a copy of nt server. This can be used with any image.
The method we used, the floppy booted, mounted a nfs share, and basically cat'd a file to/dev/hda.
There's probually no reason why you can't pull the image from a cdrom just as easily.
LRP is just a kernel small enough to fit on a floppy, with room to spare for scripts.
So if you built a system, fine tuned and customized it, you can make an image, then 'ghost' it to other machines.
Hope this helps out.
Here's some links: http://www.linuxrouter.org/ http://math.nyu.edu/phd_students/wilkinsm/linux/ www.linuxrouter.org_docs.html
ghost=dos program that does the same, but LRP is much easier
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Kickstart is nice for genning boxes, but it seems you basically want to ghost your boxes.
/dev/hda.
/ www.linuxrouter.org_docs.html
I think what you need to look at is LRP (linux router project). At the red hat certification class, we booted off a floppy and basically ghosted our machines with a copy of nt server. This can be used with any image.
The method we used, the floppy booted, mounted a nfs share, and basically cat'd a file to
There's probually no reason why you can't pull the image from a cdrom just as easily.
LRP is just a kernel small enough to fit on a floppy, with room to spare for scripts.
So if you built a system, fine tuned and customized it, you can make an image, then 'ghost' it to other machines.
Hope this helps out.
Here's some links:
http://www.linuxrouter.org/
http://math.nyu.edu/phd_students/wilkinsm/linux
ghost=dos program that does the same, but LRP is much easier