Here's a link to get PXE up and running: http://www.stanford.edu/~alfw/PXE-Kickstart/PXE-Kickstart.html
In our kickstart post section, we, among other things, have a section that runs a yum update command that point to one of our servers. But of course this server could be any server.
So we are able to do the same as the HP-UX. It's not a single tool, but a combination of tools makes this possible.
Currently we are doing this with RH9 and RH7.3, but during the summer I expect RH AS3 and Fedora Core 2 to be installed in the same way. At present, i cannot see any problems in doing this.
Regards /kbn
Steven Pritchard wrote:
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 08:24:11AM -0600, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
I dont think Anaconda is meant to look at anything beyond the bare
installation Cd's the rest should be done with first-boot. Maybe first
boot should have a yum configuration section where you can enter the yum
places you want to to point ot.
How's that going to work with kickstart-based installs/upgrades?
I'd really like to see a day where a person could fire up kickstart-based upgrades on 200 cluster servers and have *everything* upgraded when the systems reboot (assuming all of their local apps were in an appropriate repository).
FWIW, I was doing stuff like this with engineering workstations running HP-UX at a previous job 5 years ago using HP's Ignite-UX tool... It still scares me a little that we don't have a tool even that good yet.
That employer is using a *ton* of RHL now, and upgrades are nearly unmanageable. Paying for RHEL would reduce the frequency of necessary upgrades, and the money isn't necessarily a problem for them, but how would they do all those upgrades? (In other words, I don't think this is just a problem for Fedora Core/Extras/etc. users.)
Steve
