[Beowulf] small distro for PXE boot, autostarts sshd?

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Tru Huynh wrote:

> I am using kickstart + CentOS-5 + %pre feature to download the 
> required dropbear daemon + partprobe (parted/fdisk/sfdisk are 
> included) + your nettee for a post kickstart cloning of a "gold" 
> image.

I haven't seen kickstart being used this way so far... normally 
kickstart is used to install the RPMs and any %post for configuring 
it. So why do you do a clone in %post ? Wouldn't that overwrite the 
content that you just installed ?

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