kickstarting linux guides.

Does anyone know of any good kickstart linux guides?
I browsed the net but could not find any suitable doc
that would provide complete information.

Thanks,
Nik

What exactly are you looking for? There really isn't a "quick" way to learn Linux completely. There are many things to learn...and many facets of these things. I've been running Linux for almost 2 years straight and still feel that I know little in comparison to what there is to know, though others may feel that I know more than they'll ever know. :wink:

Anyway...I'll stop rambling now. Being tired has that effect on you. 8)

Let us know more specifically what you are looking for, and we'll see what we can come up with. :)

I have to agree with sarumont, I'm almost at 5-6 months now, and I still feel like a bumbling fool, but if i were to make a general suggestion, I would say i learned the most from just reading the forums. Next was the gentoo handbook, I learned much about the functionings of linux, and got comfortable in the commandline during my gentoo install. If you want a learning experiance, and are willing to commin 2-3 days to the install (they are not all infront ofthe computer, most are compiling) then I would say that will certainly make a penguin out of you!

ok..what i am looking for is something like this:
supposing I have redhat 9 installed on my system along with apache, ldap and db2...is there a way to create an image of linux along with ldap, db2 and apache and burn it on a cd so that all I have to do is just insert this cd into a pc with no os and it automatically installs everything? Has anyone tried doing this? the pc's have the same hardware so that should not be a problem...all I need to do is just burn the whole distribution on a cd and then insert it into another pc and it should do the rest

thanks,
Nik

with no OS, thats a little harder, take a formulaic boot cd then add to it a install script that just executets the commands for it.

Code:

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fdisk /dev/hda
(commands nessicary to create partition table desired)
mount /dev/hda3 /newly/mounted/drive
cp /thiscd/programs/apache /newly/mounted/drive
tar <apache>
./configure
make
makeinstall
cp /thiscd/configs/httpd.conf /newly/mounted/drive

well, none of that would really work to well, but you get the idea. boot using a preexisting livecd &#40;gentoo!&#41; and then use that shell to isntall eveything via a script.

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i would suggest you to check out this:
http://tldp.org...you csn find there tons of guides and information about linux..

You mean use Kickstart from RH to install multiple idetical machines. I found this and this searching Google for RH kickstart tutorial.

cool....thanks...this is what i was looking for.

Nik