Re: kickstarting using an smb server?

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 22:38, Niels Happel wrote:
> Ok,
> 
> I am answering myself, or better: "I need your knowledge!"
> 
> First of all: Sorry bout my bad english, next the cause of needing that kind 
> of dirty hack: I ve got to migrate many workstatins from os2 to linux and the 
> only thing I have to use for it are os2 servers running smb and an network 
> that is absolutly overloaded. So there is no way to set up an ftp or http 
> server without having security problems or paining the bandwith.
> No way - belive me, I ve checked and tested that all.
> The only way is to kickstart using os2 (dhcp and so on, ok) as an smb server 
> for my linux system, so I need any idea kickstarting out of it.
> 
> Does anybody know how to realize that stupid thing?

setup one machine manually.

copy the files to it.
set it up as a local (192.168.x.x) nfs server
kickstart your other boxes from there using local-only ip addresses

no security problem, no additional pain.

-sv