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Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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>On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:24:13PM -1000, Gavin Seo wrote: |
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>>Does anyone have any documentation/guides on how to setup a automated |
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>>deployment server? I currently want to install gentoo on 30 nodes, I have |
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>>an existing machine running gentoo that has identical hardware to the 30 |
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>>nodes that need gentoo system installed. If anyone has experience in |
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>>setting up a deployment server, it would be greatly appreciated if you |
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>>would share your experience. |
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>I have some experience on a quite similar field. The entire network is using |
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>the same DHCP server; when the system boots from the network (which is only |
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>allowed with the appropriate credentials af course) a small Linux image is |
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>downloaded and started. |
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>That image fires up the machine, connects to a PartImage server and places |
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>an image on the file system. The image itself is not tied to a particular |
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>host as all configuration specific to the system is obtained from LDAP or |
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>otherwise. |
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>However, due to the lack of PartImage development speed, I am contemplating |
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>on developing something more robust and flexible, so I am also interested in |
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>hearing from others... |
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>Wkr, |
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> Sven Vermeulen |
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Check out systemImager on source forge. |
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Tom McDonald <mickeyd@××××××××××.com> |
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The last person who said that (God rest his soul) lived to regret it. |
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