RE: [webmin-l] Kickstart and Webmin

[Shauna R. <sry...@sh...>]

Thanks :)

Shauna

-----Original Message-----
From: web...@li...
[mailto:web...@li...] On Behalf Of Joe
Cooper
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 7:00 PM
To: web...@li...
Subject: Re: [webmin-l] Kickstart and Webmin

No, I mentioned another choice (the one I used to use).  Put Webmin on a

webserver somewhere, and pull it down and install in the postinstall 
script.  RPM itself can even do it without wget (though I seem to recall

I had a problem using the built-in downloader in RPM for some reason).

Shauna Ryall wrote:
> I am looking to roll this out to about 30-40 computers. So install Yum
> first on the machines - then get Yum to install webmin.... I was
hoping
> for an all in one shot ;) 
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> Shauna
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web...@li...
> [mailto:web...@li...] On Behalf Of Joe
> Cooper
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 9:59 PM
> To: web...@li...
> Subject: Re: [webmin-l] Kickstart and Webmin
> 
> Shauna Ryall wrote:
> 
>>Howdy - I am about to use RH's kickstart to rollout Linux onto our
>>school's student workstations - and I will be using Webmin to help
> 
> with
> 
>>the admin. Is there a way to get kickstart to automatically install
>>Webmin?
> 
> 
> There's a trick to it, because Webmin requires perl to install and
some 
> other weirdness.  All ugly.  I believe Webmin is now more easily 
> packaged correctly (I seem to recall noting that Jamie had made some 
> changes to the install procedure to make it more suitable to a 
> non-interactive, pre-defined installation, but maybe not), but the RPM

> from webmin.com is not suitable for ks installation.  So it can't be 
> dropped into the RPMs dir alongside other packages, unfortunately.
> 
> Anyway, I used to do it in postinstall by getting it from a webserver 
> with wget, and then installing.
> 
> Nowadays, I do it postinstall by grabbing yum (an automagic RPM tool) 
> and installing a package that depends on all of my extra stuff
(Webmin, 
> Squid, lots of custom Webmin modules, my theme, etc...).


-- 
Joe Cooper <jo...@sw...>
Web caching appliances and support.
http://www.swelltech.com



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