OSS distributed system imaging solutions?

[Lisa Kachold]

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On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:

> Hi Ben,
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> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:52 AM, Ben Browning <benb at bensbrowning.com>wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Ted Gould <ted at gould.cx> wrote:
>> > I haven't used it, but I think that Orchestra does something like this.
>> > Not sure about the FreeBSD support, but I think it just works off of
>> > disk images, so it wouldn't care.
>>
>> Just took a look at it, and it is looking a lot like Satellite or
>> Spacewalk fro RHEL/Cent. EG it automaes Ubuntu installs, and probably
>> Debian ones. I wish it would do what I need, but it can't.
>>
>> Thanks though, that was an interesting read!
>>
>> ~Ben
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> You could always create a group of standard installations, hardened, with
> all the various things you need configured, then boot to ramdisk (or
> Knoppix) and dd the install ISO to a NAS, or USB drive, so that your
> install basically consists of booting to Knoppix (or another ram disk) and
> dd'ing the ISO back on.  This presupposes that all your hardware is
> basically the same or similar for each type of install.  The nice thing
> about this is you can rebuild quickly back to your base.
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> You can also write various scripts for each type of build to lay on
> packages, configure mac address, ip address and gateway by pulling from a
> flat file list or network database?
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> You can also use OSC Inventory, or chef or puppet to manage packages,
> setup hosts files, etc.
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