On 2/9/07, Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net> wrote: > Hi > > I am after a solution where i can easily kickstart many, read hundreds, > of boxes in a short time frame. Perhaps the way i install software is to > actually re-kix the box with a new software baseline - that type of idea. > > I have looked at rocks and it looks good but it seems a little rigid in > that i need to be able to determine certain things like hostname etc as > in our env hostname represents box location etc. > > Are there any tools out there that do things as 'easily' as rocks but > with more customization in them? Rocks seems to be based on beowulf type > clusters where our setup is more an application type affair where > communication it between the apps and not through the master box. > > thanks for any pointers Check http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/CoPs/patagonia/ . Nettee or Dolly+ cloning tools seem to be time optimal. Some customization can probably be done through DHCP. -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina