[CentOS] install via http

Mon Nov 26 18:37:27 UTC 2007
James A. Peltier <jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca>

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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