****Re: sad day on PLUG

[Craig White]

kickstart? it would have to be the most absolute minimal install. Heck,
a typical desktop  installed from DVD would take 15 minutes.

then of course, you have updates. Fedora 7 - which I expect to replace
with Fedora 8 this week would install over 330 updates after the
kickstart install which easily tacked on 45 minutes.

Craig

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 16:04 -0800, Jorge Delacruz wrote:
> I'm working on a system (server with PXE boot and
> kickstart) that simplifies the below process to:
> 
> 1. Buy new Optiplex from Dell
> 2. Open box, unpack computer
> 3. Connect computer to keyboard/power/network and turn
> on
> 4.  Enter MAC address, IP, name on server
> 5. 5-7 minutes later, disconnect computer and put in
> user workspace
> 6. Repeat process with next box.
> 
> 
> 
> --- Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 09:48 -0700, Dan Lund wrote:
> > > I prefer CentOS for pure stability and
> > reliability, and Gentoo or
> > > Debian for custom configurations.
> > > I just have issues personally with running
> > something Red Hat uses as a
> > > beta test-bed for it's future product.
> > ----
> > actually, it's a great desktop OS for our
> > non-profit.
> > 
> > unattended/automated kickstart installation
> > including configuration from
> > local lan repository.
> > 
> > 1. Buy new Optiplex from Dell
> > 2. Open box, unpack computer
> > 3. Connect comuter to keyboard/power/network and
> > turn on
> > 4. Press button and insert boot CD
> > 5. Press F12 and choose boot disc
> > 6. Select CD
> > 7. On Linux boot... enter
> >    linux install
> > method=http://my_local_repository/stage_2_boot \
> >   
> >
> ks=http://my_local_webserver/configuration_server/ks-fc8-x86_64.cfg
> > 8. 1 hour later, disconnect computer and put in user
> > workspace
> > 9. Repeat process with next box.
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
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> 
> Jorge Delacruz
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