Re: NetInstall: Deploying workstations by PXE boot
RalfGesellensetter wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> many discussions have been made what tool to use if we want to deploy an
> entire classroom. As not all workstations own a local CD device, and it
> might be tiring anyway to walk from PC to PC with your Install CD,
> suggestions had been made to use FAI or M23 or any other tool.
>
> During our last "Lern- und Arbeitswochenende" (Learning and Working
> Weekend) [1,2] at the German Skolelinux Testcenter, Geert Stappers from
> Breda joined us, in order to check for a more straight forward way: How
> to tune a raw mainserver (Tjener) to empower him for net-install.
>
> As Geert put it: Everything is already there, it only lacks the glue.
> The idea is to forward the debian-installer on the install-CD to
> (assigned) clients via TFTP/PXE. A report of first steps towards such a
> "Super-Tjener" can be found in our Wiki [3]. It includes detailed
> instructions, so you can test it yourself.
>
> Sunday, high noon, we watched a wokstation booting Skolelinux-Venus via
> PXE, asking for profiles and language, which all went very quick.
Why do you continue to work on Venus ?
> Now, there is not an end, but a bend on the road: The initramdisk
> forwarded to the client is hardcoded to install from local CD drive.
> AFAIK, Geert already asked for its location in CVS, because adapting
> the source is better than hacking the image itself.
The initramdisk is fetched from upstream debian-installer, I think.
> [BTW: What is the contact address for the new Debian-Edu Release team?]
This list works fine. But most of the Release team has taken some days
of. I guess the team will be more active in a couple of weeks.
--
Finn-Arne Johansen
faj@bzz.no http://bzz.no/
Release manager for PreRelease Sarge-based Debian-edu
Member of Release team for Sarge based Debian-edu
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