Documentation
The RedHat customization guide includes a chapter on Kickstart .Articles
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Hands-Off Fedora Installs with Kickstart
(Ethan McCallum, O'Reilly Network/Linux Devcenter) -
Covers Kickstart basics, such as how to prepare your environment and what's required on the server.
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Advanced Linux Installations and Upgrades with Kickstart
(Ethan McCallum, O'Reilly Network/Linux Devcenter) -
A more in-depth look at customizing the Kickstart process, plus some notes on using Kickstart to upgrade your machines.
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Pre-Patched Kickstart Installs
(Ethan McCallum, O'Reilly Network/Linux Devcenter) -
Describes how to fold updated RPMs into the Kickstart tree, such that new machines are built with the updates pre-applied, and how to use this same tree as a yum repository. Concludes with an example of how to fold all of this into a change control process, such that machines can safely update via scheduled jobs.
This is the article that hints at novi, which is (finally) available from this very website.
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How to update Fedora Core 3 Distribution CDs
(Gene Czarcinski, FedoraNews)
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Explains how to create your own Fedora CDs.