Deploying 100 Computer with Fedora Core 3

Bboy_Burst · #1 29th April 2005, 10:29 AM

This is a assignment I have to talk about in my computer class. What would be the fastest way to do this? Only thing I could think of is installing fedora core 3 on one computer and then ghost the other computer with it. what would be a faster way ?

Tashiro · #2 29th April 2005, 10:45 AM

Moved to installation help.

Tashiro

weapon · #3 29th April 2005, 10:52 AM

This may not answer your queestion, but you might be interested in looking at the stateless linux stuff
http://people.redhat.com/dmalcolm/st...inux-HOWTO-en/

Weapon

AndyGreen · #4 29th April 2005, 10:55 AM

HTTP install with kickstart would be pretty fast. You'd have to visit each PC with a CD to get it started.

weapon · #5 29th April 2005, 01:16 PM

If you set your computers to boot from the network you wont need a CD in every computer

Jman · #6 29th April 2005, 06:58 PM

With very similar machines yes you could image the drives. There's ghost but there's also low level tools like dd.

If you were doing network installs, there are a few perfomance bottlenecks if you're doing 100 at once, like network and server disk speed.

Dr_Strangelove · #7 29th April 2005, 08:02 PM

I have not been able to get Symatec's Ghost to work with FC3's ext3. Something different about the journaling.

I have found this (G4U- Ghost for Unix) that might help: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

cruiseoveride · #8 29th April 2005, 08:08 PM

dont ghost it
just write a kc script and set up an nfs server with dhcp, and do a network install,
just press one button on each pc and ur off
make sure ur on at least a 100mbit switch, cos i did this with 48pcs with a 100mbit and it took 40mins with rhel3 (around 1.4gb install)

Dr_Strangelove · #9 29th April 2005, 08:20 PM

"kc" script??

cruiseoveride · #10 29th April 2005, 08:24 PM

its a little thing that anaconda (the redhat/fedora core installation program) uses to automate the installation
with this script
u can choose packages to be installed, passwords, even partition sizes as absolute or even relative sizes
its very very usefull

Bboy_Burst · #11 2nd May 2005, 09:43 AM

does anyone have a guide on how to network install fedora core 3 on multiple computers??

Shadow Skill · #12 2nd May 2005, 09:53 AM

Acronis true image will probably handle ext3. [Boot CD even boots a Linux Kernel.

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cruiseoveride · #13 2nd May 2005, 07:44 PM

do this
copy all the fedora cds/dvd into a folder,
copy everything, doesnt matter if the TRANS.TBL files overwrite
eg.
/source
then export this into nfs
edit the /etc/exports
add a line
/source *(ro)
press a tab between /source and the asteriks sign
then reload the nfs service
boot each clicent machine with a fedora boot disk or first cd
then at the prompt type

linux askmethod

when it asks u for the method
choose nfs
give it the source foler
/source
and the ip of the server

an then thats it the install is off, u can now remove the cd from the drive
doing this at a large scale would be better to set up a dhcp server

tchung · #14 7th May 2005, 01:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bboy_Burst

This is a assignment I have to talk about in my computer class. What would be the fastest way to do this? Only thing I could think of is installing fedora core 3 on one computer and then ghost the other computer with it. what would be a faster way ?

Hello,

I just posted a new article on kickstart.

http://fedoranews.org/blog/?p=650

I hope this is useful to you.

Thomas Chung