Re: Install on many machines
Sounds quite interesting!
thx, Marcel
Mark Janssen <maniac@maniac.nl> 27 Dec 2001, at 13:15:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Marcel Hicking
> wrote: > We are talking ~100 (maybe more) servers here. > >
> Could anyone hint me to a decent way of handling > the setup
> and later updates? Can I have a bootable
>
> Look at FAI: Fully Automated Installer.
>
> I haven't used it myself yet (have to get around to doing
> it) but after you setup a 'install-server' you can install
> all the other servers by booting from network, floppy or
> install-cd. The other machines will then automagically get
> their network-config and do a automatic installation
> (Partitioning, network setup, package selection and
> installation).
>
> Afterwards you can have all servers kept up to date with a
> local debian mirror and have them apt-get dist-upgrade from
> that server.
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