FollowUp: Dell is Linux Friendly

Though that I should do a quick follow up for a post that I did the other month titled "Linux is Dell Friendly". Well I have done the Dell install and have played with the linux.dell.com software repo andhave to say I am very impressed. It all worked really easily and with out a hiccup.

As I mentioned in the origional article you could easily add this into a Kickstart or puppet script. I have not really played with Puppet but have played with kickstart so I thought that I would drop a couple of simple examples of how you can add dell driver and software installs simply into your Red Hat Kickstart install files:

RHEL 5 Using YUM:

%post --interpreter=/bin/bash
/usr/bin/wget -q -o http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/bootstrap.cgi | /bin/bash
/usr/bin/yum install srvadmin-all

RHEL 4 Using UP2DATE:

%post --interpreter=/bin/bash
/usr/bin/wget -q -o http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/bootstrap.cgi | /bin/bash
/usr/bin/up2date -i srvadmin-all