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Re: How do you deploy a new system ?



FAI is what we're using. mondo does work on debian, but you gotta make sure you dont' do anything 'dumb' -- its not super robust int he face of errors during image creation.

--On Sunday, February 22, 2004 20:55 -0500 sarwat0brcm@netscape.net wrote:

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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