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[kbn at daimi.au.dk]

Where I work, we do all our installs via kickstarts and PXE. First we 
create a kickstart for the machines, and then uses PXE to reinstall the 
machines remote. Of course the machines has to support network boot, but 
many machines do that allready.

Here's a link to get PXE up and running:
http://www.stanford.edu/~alfw/PXE-Kickstart/PXE-Kickstart.html

In our kickstart post section, we, among other things, have a section 
that runs a yum update command that point to one of our servers. But of 
course this server could be any server.

So we are able to do the same as the HP-UX. It's not a single tool, but 
a combination of tools makes this possible.

Currently we are doing this with RH9 and RH7.3, but during the summer I 
expect RH AS3 and Fedora Core 2 to be installed in the same way. At 
present, i cannot see any problems in doing this.

Regards
/kbn

Steven Pritchard wrote:

>On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 08:24:11AM -0600, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
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>>I dont think Anaconda is meant to look at anything beyond the bare
>>installation Cd's the rest should be done with first-boot. Maybe first
>>boot should have a yum configuration section where you can enter the yum
>>places you want to to point ot.
>>    
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>How's that going to work with kickstart-based installs/upgrades?
>
>I'd really like to see a day where a person could fire up
>kickstart-based upgrades on 200 cluster servers and have *everything*
>upgraded when the systems reboot (assuming all of their local apps
>were in an appropriate repository).
>
>FWIW, I was doing stuff like this with engineering workstations
>running HP-UX at a previous job 5 years ago using HP's Ignite-UX
>tool...  It still scares me a little that we don't have a tool even
>that good yet.
>
>That employer is using a *ton* of RHL now, and upgrades are nearly
>unmanageable.  Paying for RHEL would reduce the frequency of necessary
>upgrades, and the money isn't necessarily a problem for them, but how
>would they do all those upgrades?  (In other words, I don't think this
>is just a problem for Fedora Core/Extras/etc. users.)
>
>Steve
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