Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Hi,
I want to setup a central installation server, but haven't done this before, so I want to find out what would be best practices for this?
The server I have already runs as a central repo, which is updated from one or our local centos mirrors, and the other CentOS servers (both i386 & x64), as well as CentOS VPS's get their updates from this server.
But, now I want to allow a client to perform a quick network installation, using either a netbood CD, or preferably with the server's network bootrom. I understand this can be done with bootp, or am I on the wrong track?
the server is a general file server and also acts as our in-office internet gateway, and has Webmin installed for convenience sake. I don't know if this is of any use?
Generally we would be (re)installing CentOS servers & desktops, but I guess it could be useful for other distro's like Fedora Core / Debian / FreeBSD? / etc. What would be a good option to go for, or could someone point me to a good documentation? Doing a google search I found a lot of instructions on how to perform a network installation on the client PC's, but not how to configure the server. Maybe I used the wrong key words?
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Hi
I'm starting to play with Cobbler. Besides to central installation server, it also supports other distributions, like SuSE and Debian (Ubuntu?).
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/
Regards
mg.