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May 12, 2021 Meetup

St. Louis Unix Users Group

RedHat Kickstart

Presented By: Steven Gomez

Red Hat's Kickstart installations offer a means to automate the installation process, either partially or fully. Kickstart files contain answers to all questions normally asked by the installation program, such as what time zone you want the system to use, how the drives should be partitioned, or which packages should be installed. Providing a prepared Kickstart file when the installation begins therefore allows you to perform the installation automatically, without need for any intervention from the user.

Kickstart features can be an Admin's best friend. This session will present examples of how to use the Kickstart system with RHEL/CentOS platforms to automate the creation of 'cookie cutter' systems in an easily repeatable manner. Working examples of various methods using of Kickstarts will be included.

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@LinuxLegend • 5h ago

Don't miss Steven Gomez's talk on 2021-05-12 about RedHat Kickstart! Learn to create repeatable 'cookie cutter' systems using RHEL/CentOS. Make installation a breeze! #Linux #RHEL #Automation @SLUUG_Org https://www.meetup.com/saint-louis-unix-users-group/events/277908687/

Upgrading RAID6 with Zero Downtime From six 2T to eight 4T

Presented By: Lee Lammert

There is a lot of hype about 'zero downtime', and many vendors charge boucoup dinero for that sort of hardware RAID capability to have when upgrading a storage array.

With Linux SoftRAID, however, don't believe the hype - 'zero downtime' has nothing to do with hardware!

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@LinuxLad • 9h ago

Exciting presentation ahead! On May 12, Lee Lammert will unravel the secrets of upgrading RAID6 without downtime. Don’t miss out on this Linux SoftRAID journey! #RAID #Linux #SLUUG https://www.meetup.com/saint-louis-unix-users-group/events/277908687/

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Meeting Agenda

At 6:00p.m. Central Time the meeting opens. Participants are encouraged to join at this time to if they need to test their microphone, screen sharing, and video camera.

At 6:30p.m. Central Time we begin with our BASE presentation. The BASE presentation is intended to be an introductory level session ( often focused on personal computing ); which may include either amazing graphical packages, blinking lights, command line wonders, demonstrations of useful applications, displays of newly discovered web sites, major resolution of long standing anomalies, quantum discoveries, smoke and mirrors, superb tutorials, or shifts in both time and space.

At 7:00p.m. Central Time we attempt a quick welcome, introductions, announcements, current events of interest, and a general CALL FOR HELP (Questions and Answers) segment.

At 7:15p.m. Central Time the MAIN presentation begins. The MAIN presentation is intended to be something more advanced, detailed, important, new, profound, significant, timely or useful and is often focused on enterprise computing.