The Columbia Linux User Group met on 10 July 2008 at 6:30PM.

Shay, Louis, Scott, Bob, Ben, Fred, Phil, and Jose attended.

Fred Richards gave an excellent presentation on Redhat Kickstart.

Some highlights:

• Kickstart does an automatic installation from a CD or the network via PXE booting based on what the sysadmin specifies.

• Bob asked how to get Mediawiki to play nice with SELinux. For SELinux "ls -Z" is your friend. Use cp -Z to keep file attributes. Ref: http://elibrary.fultus.com/technical/index.jsp?topic=/com.fultus.redhat.elinux5/manuals/Deployment_Guide/rhlcommon-chapter-0017.html.

• Slax is one of Fred's favorite Live CDs.

• Linux Magazine and Linux Journal links for PXE Booting

• The old "Linux Magazine" (http://www.linux-mag.com) is now "Linux Pro Magazine", starting with the August 2008 issue. The article in this one is on Page 30 and really dedicated to Kickstart moreso than PXE.

• Ben said there is another automatic install package called FAI, based on Debian Linux. Kickstart seems easier.

The meeting ended around 8:00PM.