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Hi all, |
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 08:40:12AM -0400, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> Rob Holland (tigger) is working on an enterprise installation script that |
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> (as spec'd) will allow someone to boot to a CD, run one command and have an |
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> entire base system installed automatically from there. |
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I'm keen to have it not even require anything being typed at the |
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console, but for this to work I need a way for the machine to find out |
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where the gold server is on the network. |
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Things thats spring to mind are: UDP broadcasts and DHCP options. The |
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problem with UDP is its going to get complicated writing |
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clients/listeneres and the problem with DHCP is that not all dhcpd's |
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allow setting of non-standard options (and not everyone does/can use |
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dhcp on their network). |
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So, does anyone have any ideas how a machine could find out where a the |
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gold server is on its network when it boots? |
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Also, please join #glis on freenode if you're interested in the |
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automation of installs based on "classes" as per the i.org paper. Thats |
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what I'm working on. |
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Cheers, |
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Rob |
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irc://irc.freenode.net/#gentoo as tigger^ |
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