Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 03:56:03 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keeping lots of systems all the same... Message-ID: <20001220035603.P19572@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20001220104157.A48462@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:41:57AM %2B0000 References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012200233410.32584-100000@jason.argos.org> <20001220104157.A48462@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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* Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> [001220 03:43] wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:15:40AM -0500, Mike Nowlin wrote: > > I'm planning on building a fairly big machine to do world builds on to > > keep these machines (30-ish) all synced to the same OS version, probably > > with weekly installworlds on them. > > Have you had a look at PXE? Basically, each time the machine reboots > you can have it reimage itself from a master server. See > > http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/ > > for details. Your NIC has to support it, and I don't know how long the > reimaging process takes over 100Mbit, but it's probably less maintenance > effort for you in the long run. Takes 5-15 minutes per box. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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