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AD and sudo integratation in kickstart

By On 14 January 2010 · 2 Comments

Following on from my last post about kickstart scripts which looked at partitioning, this one concentrates on user account provisioning.  There are lots of useful guides online about how to configure user accounts, however none that fitted all my requirements.  So nothing below is groundbreakingly new, but it does demonstrate a complete working [...]

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Create local VMFS with 8MB block size during ESX4 kickstart install

By On 11 January 2010 · 9 Comments

I’ve been creating a new kickstart script, to automate ESX 4 deployments.  There were a couple of pieces missing that I couldn’t find a good solution to online.  This was the first. Hopefully recording it here might save someone else a bit of time.

Before I start, I would like to point everyone to this [...]

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