Re: How do you deploy a new system ?
This is what i regard as the EASY way:
Divide target boxes into hardware 'races' (all exactly-the-same hardware
into one race). Install one debian per race. Partimage each race.
Sync all boxes of each race with a partimage bootdisk, look into the
dhcp logs to see the ip of each box.
Script or do one by one, change all hostnames (at this point they are
all the same). This is a 20 line script at most if ssh is properly
installed in all boxes (just put it with your pubkey in the imaged
boxes).
El dom, 22-02-2004 a las 19:55, sarwat0brcm@netscape.net escribió:
> Hi,
>
> What are you guys using to deploy new systems. In our env we are bringing up one system every other week. So far, we've been using Red Hat and Kickstart. We simply save the config on a floppy then boot from the CD and a few minutes later the system is ready without the endless Yes/No questions.
>
> BTW, I tried Mondo on the latest stable Woody-3.2 and it didn't seem to work i.e. I issued the command:
>
> $ mondoarchive -Oi -d /mnt/NFS/Images -E /mnt
>
> and it started doing something but then it never returned back (left it running for 4 hrs) to the prompt and there was no disk activity after the first 10 mins. I Ctrl-C'd it and never looked into it.
>
> FAI etc sound too complicated to setup.
>
> Anaconda port doesn't sound that great since you have to use a special kernel to make it work...from what I've heard ?
>
> We are just curious about the setups of other big ISP/University type environments since we're thinking of doing a swtich from RH to Debian.
>
> Thank You.
>
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