Jeff Larsen wrote:
Not only that, but you can make a nice small (10Mb) iso image that you can use to boot from. Great for mounting virtual media in a Dell DRAC to launch a network install. Here's the docs on how to do it: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/ch02s04.html See section 2.4.2. Jeff _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
The CentOS DVD images (not sure about CD images) have an images directory that contains a boot.iso file that can be used to net boot machines. That's the one I used.
Together with a combination of autofs, lighttpd, rsync'ing and cron I am able to fully support a lab of about 500 machines and a small cluster using just 10 boot CDs and some kickstart files, boot and update the machines in about an hour. Including system customization, also done through shell scripts.
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