[CentOS] install via http
James A. Peltier
jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca
Mon Nov 26 18:37:27 UTC 2007
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
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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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