Preparing for a Custom JumpStart Installation

The first step in preparing a custom JumpStart installation is to decide how you want the systems at your site to be installed. Here are some questions that need to be answered before you begin:

  • Will the installation be an initial installation or an upgrade?

  • What applications will the system support?

  • Who will use the system?

  • How much swap space is required?

These questions will help you group the systems when you create the class and rules files later in this chapter.

Additional concerns to be addressed include what software packages need to be installed and what size to make the disk partitions. After you answer these questions, group systems according to their configuration (as shown in the example ...

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