On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On Mon, September 8, 2014 9:44 am, Les Mikesell wrote: >> 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. -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods