Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Valeri Galtsev wrote:

On Mon, September 8, 2014 9:44 am, Les Mikesell wrote:

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But, if you have even more than a few, you are probably already doing some sort of image installs. So just install on a machine or VM with 1GB, then use ReaR or Clonezilla to back it up and restore onto the target boxes. Or for brute force, use dd to copy the drive and swap them into place.

... which will be a lot of drive swapping for 1000 or 10000 machines. With

Hence the term, "brute force".

this number of machines the only workable option I can think of is netboot

• kickstart (with hard drive then network boot order in BIOS so no need to

change anything after system is installed)... But it is true what was mentioned 1000+ weak machines are unlikely to be able to pay their electric bills.