[ILUG] Re: redhat 6.1 remote install

[Stephen_Reilly at dell.com]

Yes I admit I was talking about having a pre-configured image file. Now on
the other hand you can write an NT preinstall and blast this onto multiple
machines independent of hardware architecture. Alternatively you always have
Winproxy and PC-Anywhere if you really want to do it all by hand remotely. 

	The "reboots and manual OK's" can ALL be automated by the way. If
you wanted to completely kill a machine and start again from the level of
fdisk you can write pip files to automate that too. Ah fun, really it is . .
. 

	Now to get back to Linux, what you want is you want to setup a
kickstart install, that's the stuff ! ! ! Generic automated installs it's
the only way to go, and you know it all makes sense. 

--Steve
yada yada, me talking not the company /yada yada

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Vincent Cunniffe [mailto:vcunniff at arbgroup.com]
		Sent:	Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:05 AM
		To:	ilug at linux.ie
		Subject:	Re: [ILUG] Re: redhat 6.1 remote install

		ilug-admin at linux.ie wrote:
		> 
		>                 "But it's the *principle* dammit : once
you got the hang of
		> it, you could
		>                 do a full OS upgrade from a different
continent. Let's see
		> you do that
		>                 with Windows :-)"
		> 
		> as much as I hate to admit it, it's actually ridiculously
easy to do with
		> windows as most such utilities are written specifically
for microsoft stuff.
		> There are few I know of that can intelligently (i.e. not
blindly) dupe Ext2
		> filesystem data, powerquest drive image pro can . . .

		Err... I'm talking about being able to log onto a machine
remotely, put the
		new OS on it remotely, reboot it remotely, and have it start
reliably, so that
		you can reconnect and configure it remotely.

		I will be *EXTREMELY* surprised if anyone has ever managed
that with Windows.

		I've never seen a Windows installation that didn't require a
large number of 
		reboots and manual OK's.

		It is certainly possible to simply pick up a Windows drive
image and plonk it
		on the disk, but you need to have the exact same hardware on
all of the 
		machines you're copying. 

		I believe Colm uses this in Trinity to install on lots of
machines (running 
		off a Linux server, IIRC :-), but he has to do it from the
console of the
		machine he's installing to.

		Regards,

		Vin

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