Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:41:57 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keeping lots of systems all the same... Message-ID: <20001220104157.A48462@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012200233410.32584-100000@jason.argos.org>; from mike@argos.org on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:15:40AM -0500 References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012200233410.32584-100000@jason.argos.org>
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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.
N
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