I'm on a Gigabit network but I am doing Fedora not CentOS installs but
still I can't get close to 5-7 minute install which is why I find it
hard to believe that you are doing it.

There are already 496 updates for Fedora 8 x86_64 which means that a
'yum update' would take way longer than 5-7 minutes.

Anyway, if I do a complete install, I will time it.

Also, Dell doesn't ship PXE enabled (at least not to me). It takes a
trip into BIOS to get that done.

Craig

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 21:38 -0800, Jorge Delacruz wrote:
> RHEL3 install times 1:30 - 2:00 minutes.
> RHEL5 - 5-7 minutes.
> 
> The installs have full X, GNOME, and KDE libs.
> 
> Caveat: kickstart install is done over 1GB network -
> quite abit faster than a DVD.
> 
> 
> 
> --- Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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@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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