PXE Install Question

[shlammed]

For any of you with experience installing Red Hat VIA PXE, do you know if it's possible to add RPM's to the source folder (network location serving the Red Hat OS) and have them installed during the OS install?

I have a few programs that I'd like to have installed through the PXE process instead of having to manually install the same program on 45 IBM Blades.

And yes, I know about Ghost. I'm looking for an alternative to it so please don't suggest it!

[b2bwild]

Packages to be installed should be mentioned in kickstart file anakonda-ks.cfg
manually adding package in FTP/HTTP root folder wont install it automatically.

What you can do is write post installation script to install additional packages, which are not included in distro.

[shlammed]

Packages to be installed should be mentioned in kickstart file anakonda-ks.cfg
manually adding package in FTP/HTTP root folder wont install it automatically.

What you can do is write post installation script to install additional packages, which are not included in distro.

I figured it might require some scripting.

Too bad I have no knowledge on Perl or anything else.

D'oh